Timothy Spall
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1957-02-27 (68 years old)
Place of Birth
Battersea, London, England, UK
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
Acting
(2026)
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
as Mr Hilbery
(2025)
(2025)
Hamlet
as Polonius
(2024)
Wicked Little Letters
as Edward Swan
(2024)
Rich Flu
as Sebastian Snail Sr.
(2023)
Northern Comfort
as Edward
(2023)
Bolan's Shoes
as Jimmy
(2023)
The Heist Before Christmas
as Santa
(2022)
The Pale Blue Eye
as Superintendent Thayer
(2022)
This Is Christmas
as Ray
(2021)
Spencer
as Major Alistair Gregorys
(2021)
The Last Bus
as Tom
(2021)
The Grand Duke Of Corsica
as Alfred Rott
(2020)
Grizzly II: Revenge
as Rob (uncredited)
(2020)
It Snows in Benidorm
as Peter Riordan
(2019)
Mrs Lowry & Son
as L.S. Lowry
(2019)
The Corrupted
as Clifford Cullen
(2019)
This Time Away
as Nigel
(2018)
Early Man
as Chief Bobnar (voice)
(2017)
Finding Your Feet
as Charlie Glover
(2017)
The Journey
as Ian Paisley
(2017)
The Party
as Bill
(2017)
The Changeover
as Carmody Braque
(2016)
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
(2016)
Away
as Joseph
(2016)
Denial
as David Irving
(2016)
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
(2015)
Cider with Rosie
as Laurie Lee (voice)
(2015)
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
as Self / Nick
(2015)
Sucker
as The Professor
(2015)
Fungus The Bogeyman
as Fungus
(2014)
Mr. Turner
as JMW Turner
(2014)
The Love Punch
as Jerry
(2014)
The One and Only Mike Leigh
as Self
(2013)
Back With The Boys Again
as Himself
(2012)
Upside Down
as Bob Boruchowitz
(2012)
Ginger & Rosa
as Mark
(2012)
Wasteland
as D I West
(2012)
Assassin's Bullet
as Dr. Kahn
(2012)
Love Bite
as Sid
(2012)
Room on the Broom
as Dragon (voice)
(2012)
Comes a Bright Day
as Charlie
(2012)
(2011)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Peter Pettigrew
(2011)
Wake Wood
as Arthur
(2011)
My Angel
as Mr. Lambert
(2011)
Reuniting the Rubins
as Lennie Rubin
(2010)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Peter Pettigrew
(2010)
Alice in Wonderland
as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
(2010)
The King's Speech
as Winston Churchill
(2010)
Jackboots on Whitehall
as Churchill (voice)
(2010)
Heartless
as George Morgan
(2009)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
as Peter Pettigrew
(2009)
From Time to Time
as Boggis
(2009)
The Damned United
as Peter Taylor
(2009)
Desert Flower
as Terry Donaldson
(2009)
Gunrush
as Doug Becket
(2009)
The Fattest Man in Britain
as Georgie Godwin
(2008)
Appaloosa
as Phil Olson
(2007)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
(2007)
Enchanted
as Nathaniel
(2007)
(2007)
Death Defying Acts
as Sugarman
(2007)
A Room with a View
as Mr Emerson
(2006)
Mysterious Creatures
as Bill Ainscow
(2006)
Teenage Tourettes Camp
as Narrator
(2005)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Wormtail
(2005)
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
as Albert Pierrepoint
(2005)
Cherished
as Terry Cannings
(2005)
Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
as Malcolm Harvey
(2004)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Peter Pettigrew
(2004)
(2003)
The Last Samurai
as Simon Graham
(2003)
My House in Umbria
as Quinty
(2003)
Gettin' Square
as Darren Barrington
(2002)
Nicholas Nickleby
as Charles Cheeryble
(2002)
All or Nothing
as Phil
(2002)
(2001)
Intimacy
as Andy, Claire's husband
(2001)
Rock Star
as Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager
(2001)
Vanilla Sky
as Thomas Tipp
(2001)
Lucky Break
as Cliff
(2001)
Ivor the Invisible
as Dad (voice)
(2001)
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
as Tommy Rag
(2001)
(2000)
Chicken Run
as Nick (voice)
(2000)
Love's Labour's Lost
as Armado
(2000)
(2000)
Vatel
as Gourville
(2000)
(1999)
Topsy-Turvy
as Richard Temple (The Mikado)
(1999)
The Clandestine Marriage
as Sterling
(1998)
Neville's Island
as Gordon
(1998)
Still Crazy
as David "Beano" Baggot
(1998)
Immortality
as Inspector Healey
(1997)
The Swords
as Salesman
(1996)
Hamlet
as Rosencrantz
(1996)
Secrets & Lies
as Maurice Purley
(1992)
Roots
as Jimmy Beales
(1992)
Dread Poets' Society
as Derek
(1991)
Broke
as Francis Meeks
(1991)
Nona
as Chico
(1991)
Not Mozart: WAM! Limited
as Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart
(1990)
1871
as Ramborde
(1990)
The Sheltering Sky
as Eric Lyle
(1990)
Life Is Sweet
as Aubrey
(1990)
White Hunter, Black Heart
as Hodkins
(1990)
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
as Pig Robinson
(1989)
David Macaulay: Pyramid
as Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)
(1988)
Journey's End
as Lt. Trotter
(1988)
Crusoe
as Reverend Milne
(1988)
To Kill a Priest
as Igor
(1988)
Dream Demon
as Peck
(1987)
Gothic
as Dr. Polidori
(1987)
Body Contact
as Paul
(1985)
The Bride
as Paulus
(1985)
Dutch Girls
as Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
(1985)
A Crack in the Ice
as Pte. Postnikov
(1982)
Remembrance
as Douglas
(1982)
Home Sweet Home
as Gordon
(1982)
A Cotswold Death
as Detective Sergeant Baxter
(1982)
Oliver Twist
as 1st Constable
(1982)
The Missionary
as Parswell
(1981)
The Three Sisters
as Andrei
(1981)
The Cherry Orchard
as Epikhodov
(1981)
Say No to Strangers
as Stranger
(1980)
S.O.S. Titanic
as Jim (uncredited)
(1979)
Quadrophenia
as Projectionist
(1979)
The Brylcreem Boys
as Shorty
(1978)
The Vanishing Army
as Wainwright
Crew
Late in Summer
Executive Producer
(2021)
The Last Bus
Executive Producer