Timothy Spall
- Acting
- February 27, 1957 · Battersea, London, England, UK
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
Filmography
- Virginia Woolf's Night & Day · Terence Hilbery
- Hamlet · Polonius
- Goodbye June · Bernie
- Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
- Death Valley · John Chapel, Executive producer
- Rich Flu · Sebastian Snail Sr.
- Wicked Little Letters · Edward Swan
- The Heist Before Christmas · Santa
- Bolan's Shoes · Jimmy
- Northern Comfort · Edward
- The Sixth Commandment · Peter Farquhar
- The Pale Blue Eye · Superintendent Thayer
- This Is Christmas · Ray
- Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg · Self
- Remembers… · Self
- Spencer · Major Alistair Gregorys
- The Grand Duke of Corsica · Alfred Rott
- The Last Bus · Tom, Executive producer
- It Snows in Benidorm · Peter Riordan
- Grizzly II: Revenge · Rob (uncredited)
- Mrs Lowry & Son · L.S. Lowry
- Perpetual Grace LTD · Donald DeLoash
- Summer of Rockets · Lord Arthur Wallington
- Hatton Garden · Terry Perkins
- The Corrupted · Clifford Cullen
- This Time Away · Nigel
- Early Man · Chief Bobnar (Voice)
- Finding Your Feet · Charlie Glover
- The Changeover · Carmody Braque
- Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams · Ed Jacobson
- The Party · Bill
- The Journey · Ian Paisley
- Stanley, a Man of Variety · 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, Screenplay
- Denial · David Irving
- Away · Joseph
- Alice Through the Looking Glass · Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (Voice)
- Fungus The Bogeyman · Fungus
- Fungus the Bogeyman · Fungus
- A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman · Self / Nick
- Cider with Rosie · Laurie Lee (Voice)
- Sucker · The Professor
- The Enfield Haunting · Maurice Grosse
- Wolf Hall · Duke of Norfolk
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors · Self
- The One and Only Mike Leigh · Self
- Mr. Turner · JMW Turner
- 9 Kisses · Bartender
- The Love Punch · Jerry
- Back with the Boys Again · Self
- Blandings · Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
- Room on the Broom · Dragon (Voice)
- Love Bite · Sid
- London 2012 Olympic Games · Self
- Ginger & Rosa · Mark
- Upside Down · Bob Boruchowitz
- The Rise · D I West
- London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music · Winston Churchill
- Assassin's Bullet · Dr. Kahn
- The Syndicate
- Boy
- Timothy Spall: All at Sea · Self
- Comes a Bright Day · Charlie
- My Angel · Mr. Lambert
- Reuniting the Rubins · Lennie Rubin
- Timothy Spall: Back At Sea · Self
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 · Peter Pettigrew
- Wake Wood · Arthur
- The King's Speech · Winston Churchill
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 · Peter Pettigrew
- Jackboots on Whitehall · Churchill (Voice)
- Heartless · George Morgan
- Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea · Self
- Alice in Wonderland · Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (Voice)
- 10 Minute Tales · Man
- The Fattest Man in Britain · Georgie Godwin
- From Time to Time · Boggis
- Desert Flower · Terry Donaldson
- Gunrush · Doug Becket
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince · Peter Pettigrew
- The Damned United · Peter Taylor