Timothy Spall
Biography
Timothy Leonard Spall (born February 27, 1957) is an English actor and presenter. He became a household name in the UK after appearing as Barry Spencer Taylor in the 1983 ITV comedy-drama series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. Spall performed in Secrets & Lies (1996), and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Subsequently, he starred in many films, including Hamlet (1996), Still Crazy (1998), Nicholas Nickleby (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), Enchanted (2007), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), The Damned United (2009), The King's Speech (2010), Ginger and Rosa (2012), Denial (2016), and The Party (2017). He voiced Nick, a cynical, portly rat in Chicken Run (2000). He played Peter Pettigrew in five Harry Potter films, from Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) to Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010). Spall has collaborated with director Mike Leigh, making six films together: Home Sweet Home (1982), Life is Sweet (1990), Secrets & Lies (1996), Topsy-Turvy (1999), All or Nothing (2002), and Mr. Turner (2014). Spall won great acclaim for his performance in the last of these for his portrayal as J. M. W. Turner winning him the Best Actor Award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. He starred in the television documentary Timothy Spall: ...at Sea (2010–2012) and in 2019 he appeared as Lord Arthur Wallington in the 6-part BBC Cold War drama Summer of Rockets.
Known For
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The One Show
2006
The One Show
2006
Play for Today
1970
Play for Today
1970
Top Gear
2002
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
Film '72
1971
Playhouse
1974
Filmography
The Graham Norton Show
as Self · 2007
The One Show
as Self - Guest · 2006
The One Show
as Self · 2006
Play for Today
as Gordon · 1970
Play for Today
as Detective Sergeant Baxter · 1970
Top Gear
as Self · 2002
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self · 2014
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Peter Pettigrew · 2004
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Wormtail · 2005
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Peter Pettigrew (uncredited) · 2007
Film '72
as Self · 1971
Playhouse
as Shorty · 1974
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Peter Pettigrew · 2011
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
as Self – Actor · 2022
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Peter Pettigrew · 2010
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
as Peter Pettigrew · 2009
Parkinson
as Self · 1998
Red Dwarf
as Andy · 1988
Pebble Mill
as Self · 1991
Alice in Wonderland
as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice) · 2010
ScreenPlay
as Francis Meeks · 1986
ScreenPlay
as Derek · 1986
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
as Ed Jacobson · 2017
Parkinson
as Self - Guest · 2004
Performance
as Jimmy Beales · 1991
Performance
as Chico · 1991
The Last Samurai
as Simon Graham · 2003
The Hunger
as Salesman · 1997
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
as Cunningham - Masseur · 1992
The King's Speech
as Winston Churchill · 2010
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice) · 2016
Wolf Hall
as Duke of Norfolk · 2015
BBC2 Play of the Week
as Wainwright · 1977
Chicken Run
as Nick (voice) · 2000
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
as Beadle · 2007
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
as Porfiry · 1988
Enchanted
as Nathaniel · 2007
Vanilla Sky
as Thomas Tipp · 2001
Remembers…
as Self · 2022
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
as Mr. Poe · 2004
Murder Most Horrid
as Pathologist · 1991
Early Man
as Chief Bobnar (voice) · 2018
Intimacy
as Andy, Claire's husband · 2001
The Pale Blue Eye
as Superintendent Thayer · 2022
The Syndicate
· 2012
Perpetual Grace LTD
as Donald DeLoash · 2019
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
as Terence Hilbery · 2026
Death Valley
as John Chapel · 2025
Spender
as Robert Cunningham · 1991
Wicked Little Letters
as Edward Swan · 2024
The Street
as Eddie McEvoy · 2006
Goodbye June
as Bernie · 2025
10 Minute Tales
as Man · 2009
Hatton Garden
as Terry Perkins · 2019
Frank Stubbs Promotes
as Frank Stubbs · 1993
Blandings
as Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth · 2013
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
as Barry Taylor · 1983
Our Mutual Friend
as Mr Venus · 1998
Upside Down
as Bob Boruchowitz · 2012
This Morning
as Self - Guest · 1988
Outside Edge
as Kevin Costello · 1994
Desert Flower
as Terry Donaldson · 2009
British Film Forever
· 2007
The Sixth Commandment
as Peter Farquhar · 2023
Oliver Twist
as Fagin · 2007
Death Defying Acts
as Sugarman · 2007
Rock Star
as Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager · 2001
Secrets & Lies
as Maurice Purley · 1996
Stolen
as Donald Caudell · 1990
Mr. Turner
as JMW Turner · 2014
One Life
· 2003
The Last Bus
as Tom · 2021
Appaloosa
as Phil Olson · 2008
The Corrupted
as Clifford Cullen · 2019
Room on the Broom
as Dragon (voice) · 2012
Rich Flu
as Sebastian Snail Sr. · 2024
Spencer
as Major Alistair Gregorys · 2021
The Sheltering Sky
as Eric Lyle · 1990
Summer of Rockets
as Lord Arthur Wallington · 2019
Fungus the Bogeyman
as Fungus · 2015
All or Nothing
as Phil · 2002
Ginger & Rosa
as Mark · 2012
Hamlet
as Rosencrantz · 1996
Northern Comfort
as Edward · 2023
White Hunter, Black Heart
as Hodkins · 1990
Nicholas Nickleby
as Charles Cheeryble · 2002
The Damned United
as Peter Taylor · 2009
The Party
as Bill · 2017
London 2012 Olympic Games
as Self · 2012
S.O.S. Titanic
as Jim (uncredited) · 1980
From Time to Time
as Boggis · 2009
Hamlet
as Polonius · 2026
Denial
as David Irving · 2016
A Room with a View
as Mr Emerson · 2008
The Enfield Haunting
as Maurice Grosse · 2015
Love's Labour's Lost
as Armado · 2000
David Macaulay: Pyramid
as Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice) · 1989
The Bride
as Paulus · 1985
The Danny Baker Show
· 1994
Quadrophenia
as Projectionist · 1979
This Is Christmas
as Ray · 2022
Topsy-Turvy
as Richard Temple (The Mikado) · 1999
Perfect Strangers
as Irving · 2001
Vatel
as Gourville · 2000
The Love Punch
as Jerry · 2014
Assassin's Bullet
as Dr. Kahn · 2012
Bodily Harm
as Mitchel Greenfield · 2002
To Kill a Priest
as Igor · 1988
Wake Wood
as Arthur · 2011
Finding Your Feet
as Charlie Glover · 2017
Life Is Sweet
as Aubrey · 1991
Still Crazy
as David "Beano" Baggot · 1998
Nice Day at the Office
· 1994
Immortality
as Inspector Healey · 1998
Oliver Twist
as 1st Constable · 1982
The Rise
as D I West · 2012
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
as Self / Nick · 2015
My House in Umbria
as Quinty · 2003
Shooting the Past
as Oswald Bates · 1999
London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music
as Winston Churchill · 2012
The Grand Duke of Corsica
as Alfred Rott · 2021
Grizzly II: Revenge
as Rob (uncredited) · 2020
A Room with a View
as Mr Emerson · 2007
Mrs Lowry & Son
as L.S. Lowry · 2019
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
as Albert Pierrepoint · 2005
The Thing about Vince
as Vince Skinner · 2000
Gothic
as Dr. Polidori · 1987
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
as Self · 2002
Comes a Bright Day
as Charlie · 2012
Jeremy Hardy Gives Good Sex
· 1995
The Changeover
as Carmody Braque · 2017
The Fattest Man in Britain
as Georgie Godwin · 2009
The Heist Before Christmas
as Santa · 2023
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
as Tommy Rag · 2001
Dream Demon
as Peck · 1988
Cider with Rosie
as Laurie Lee (voice) · 2015
Lucky Break
as Cliff · 2001
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
as Cunningham · 2000
Gettin' Square
as Darren Barrington · 2003
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
as Luis Agalla · 2001
Dutch Girls
as Lyndon Baines Jellicoe · 1985
9 Kisses
as Bartender · 2014
Love Bite
as Sid · 2012
It Snows in Benidorm
as Peter Riordan · 2020
Boy
· 2012
Heartless
as George Morgan · 2010
My Angel
as Mr. Lambert · 2011
Mysterious Creatures
as Bill Ainscow · 2006
Crusoe
as Reverend Milne · 1989
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
· 2025
The Missionary
as Parswell · 1982
Jackboots on Whitehall
as Churchill (voice) · 2010
The Journey
as Ian Paisley · 2017
The One and Only Mike Leigh
as Self · 2014
Home Sweet Home
as Gordon · 1982
Nona
as Chico · 1991
Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
as Malcolm Harvey · 2005
The Cherry Orchard
as Epikhodov · 1981
The Life Story of Baal
as Lupu · 1978
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
as Pig Robinson · 1990
Rough for Theatre II
as B · 2000
The Clandestine Marriage
as Sterling · 1999
The Vanishing Army
as Wainwright · 1978
Bolan's Shoes
as Jimmy · 2023
Roots
as Jimmy Beales · 1992
Away
as Joseph · 2016
Remembrance
as Douglas · 1982
Murdering Michael Malloy
as Michael Malloy
A Crack in the Ice
as Pte. Postnikov · 1985
Not Mozart: WAM! Limited
as Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart · 1991
Timothy Spall: All at Sea
as Himself · 2012
Dread Poets' Society
as Derek · 1992
Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
as Himself · 2010
Stanley, a Man of Variety
as Stanley/Stanley's Father/Stanley's Mother/Tony Hancock/Peter Sellers aka Dr Boob/George Formby/James Finlayson/Max Wall/Alistair Sim/Margaret Rutherford/Frank Randle/Max Miller/Noel Coward/Igor · 2016
Say No to Strangers
as Stranger · 1981
Neville's Island
as Gordon · 1998
Reuniting the Rubins
as Lennie Rubin · 2011
Body Contact
as Paul · 1987
The Swords
as Salesman · 1997
Ivor the Invisible
as Dad (voice) · 2001
A Cotswold Death
as Detective Sergeant Baxter · 1982
Timothy Spall: Back At Sea
as Himself · 2011
Fungus The Bogeyman
as Fungus · 2015
Cherished
as Terry Cannings · 2005
Journey's End
as Lt. Trotter · 1988
The Brylcreem Boys
as Shorty · 1979
Broke
as Francis Meeks · 1991
Back with the Boys Again
as Himself · 2013
This Time Away
as Nigel · 2019
Untitled 13
Sucker
as The Professor · 2015
The Three Sisters
as Andrei · 1981
Teenage Tourettes Camp
as Narrator · 2006
1871
as Ramborde · 1990
Gunrush
as Doug Becket · 2009