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.
Movies (125)
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
2026
Hamlet
2026
Goodbye June
2025
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
2025
Rich Flu
2024
Wicked Little Letters
2024
The Heist Before Christmas
2023
Bolan's Shoes
2023
Northern Comfort
2023
The Pale Blue Eye
2022
This Is Christmas
2022
Spencer
2021
The Grand Duke Of Corsica
2021
The Last Bus
2021
It Snows in Benidorm
2020
Grizzly II: Revenge
2020
Mrs Lowry & Son
2019
The Corrupted
2019
This Time Away
2019
Early Man
2018
Finding Your Feet
2017
The Changeover
2017
The Party
2017
The Journey
2017
Stanley, a Man of Variety
2016
Denial
2016
Away
2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
2015
Cider with Rosie
2015
Sucker
2015
Mr. Turner
2014
9 Kisses
2014
The Love Punch
2014
Back with the Boys Again
2013
Room on the Broom
2012
Love Bite
2012
Ginger & Rosa
2012
Upside Down
2012
The Rise
2012
Assassin's Bullet
2012
Comes a Bright Day
2012
My Angel
2011
Reuniting the Rubins
2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
Wake Wood
2011
The King's Speech
2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
Jackboots on Whitehall
2010
Heartless
2010
Alice in Wonderland
2010
The Fattest Man in Britain
2009
From Time to Time
2009
Desert Flower
2009
Gunrush
2009
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
The Damned United
2009
Appaloosa
2008
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007
Enchanted
2007
A Room with a View
2007
Death Defying Acts
2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
Mysterious Creatures
2006
Teenage Tourettes Camp
2006
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
2005
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
Cherished
2005
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
The Last Samurai
2003
Gettin' Square
2003
My House in Umbria
2003
Nicholas Nickleby
2002
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
2002
All or Nothing
2002
Vanilla Sky
2001
Rock Star
2001
Lucky Break
2001
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
2001
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001
Intimacy
2001
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
2000
Chicken Run
2000
Vatel
2000
Love's Labour's Lost
2000
Rough for Theatre II
2000
Topsy-Turvy
1999
The Clandestine Marriage
1999
Immortality
1998
Still Crazy
1998
Neville's Island
1998
The Swords
1997
Hamlet
1996
Secrets & Lies
1996
Roots
1992
Dread Poets' Society
1992
Broke
1991
Life Is Sweet
1991
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
The Sheltering Sky
1990
1871
1990
White Hunter, Black Heart
1990
Crusoe
1989
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
Dream Demon
1988
To Kill a Priest
1988
Journey's End
1988
Body Contact
1987
Gothic
1987
Dutch Girls
1985
The Bride
1985
A Crack in the Ice
1985
The Missionary
1982
Remembrance
1982
Oliver Twist
1982
Home Sweet Home
1982
A Cotswold Death
1982
The Cherry Orchard
1981
S.O.S. Titanic
1980
The Brylcreem Boys
1979
Quadrophenia
1979
The Vanishing Army
1978
The Life Story of Baal
1978
Untitled 13
TV Shows (47)
Death Valley
2025
The Sixth Commandment
2023
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
Remembers…
2022
Perpetual Grace LTD
2019
Summer of Rockets
2019
Hatton Garden
2019
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
2017
Fungus the Bogeyman
2015
The Enfield Haunting
2015
Wolf Hall
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Blandings
2013
London 2012 Olympic Games
2012
The Syndicate
2012
Timothy Spall: All at Sea
2012
Timothy Spall: Back At Sea
2011
Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
2010
10 Minute Tales
2009
Oliver Twist
2007
British Film Forever
2007
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The One Show
2006
The One Show
2006
The Street
2006
Top Gear
2002
Bodily Harm
2002
Perfect Strangers
2001
Shooting the Past
1999
Our Mutual Friend
1998
Parkinson
1998
The Hunger
1997
Outside Edge
1994
Frank Stubbs Promotes
1993
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
Murder Most Horrid
1991
Performance
1991
Performance
1991
Spender
1991
This Morning
1988
Red Dwarf
1988
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
1983
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
Playhouse
1974
Play for Today
1970
Play for Today
1970