Acting · Battersea, London, England, UK · Born February 27, 1957
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.
MovieVirginia Woolf's Night & Day
2026
as Terence Hilbery
MovieHamlet
2026
as Polonius
MovieGoodbye June
2025
as Bernie
MovieTurner: The Secret Sketchbooks
2025
TVDeath Valley
2025
as John Chapel
MovieRich Flu
2024
as Sebastian Snail Sr.
MovieWicked Little Letters
2024
as Edward Swan
MovieThe Heist Before Christmas
2023
as Santa
MovieBolan's Shoes
2023
as Jimmy
MovieNorthern Comfort
2023
as Edward
TVThe Sixth Commandment
2023
as Peter Farquhar
MovieThe Pale Blue Eye
2022
as Superintendent Thayer
MovieThis Is Christmas
2022
as Ray
TVSunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
as Self – Actor
TVRemembers…
2022
as Self
MovieSpencer
2021
as Major Alistair Gregorys
MovieThe Grand Duke Of Corsica
2021
as Alfred Rott
MovieThe Last Bus
2021
as Tom
MovieIt Snows in Benidorm
2020
as Peter Riordan
MovieGrizzly II: Revenge
2020
as Rob (uncredited)
MovieMrs Lowry & Son
2019
as L.S. Lowry
TVPerpetual Grace LTD
2019
as Donald DeLoash
TVSummer of Rockets
2019
as Lord Arthur Wallington
TVHatton Garden
2019
as Terry Perkins
MovieThe Corrupted
2019
as Clifford Cullen
MovieThis Time Away
2019
as Nigel
MovieEarly Man
2018
as Chief Bobnar (voice)
MovieFinding Your Feet
2017
as Charlie Glover
MovieThe Changeover
2017
as Carmody Braque
TVPhilip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
2017
as Ed Jacobson
MovieThe Party
2017
as Bill
MovieThe Journey
2017
as Ian Paisley
MovieStanley, a Man of Variety
2016
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
MovieDenial
2016
as David Irving
MovieAway
2016
as Joseph
MovieAlice Through the Looking Glass
2016
as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
Fungus The Bogeyman
2015
as Fungus
TVFungus the Bogeyman
2015
as Fungus
MovieA Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
2015
as Self / Nick
MovieCider with Rosie
2015
as Laurie Lee (voice)
MovieSucker
2015
as The Professor
TVThe Enfield Haunting
2015
as Maurice Grosse
TVWolf Hall
2015
as Duke of Norfolk
TVVariety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014
as Self
MovieMr. Turner
2014
as JMW Turner
Movie9 Kisses
2014
as Bartender
MovieThe Love Punch
2014
as Jerry
MovieBack with the Boys Again
2013
as Himself
TVBlandings
2013
as Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
MovieRoom on the Broom
2012
as Dragon (voice)
MovieLove Bite
2012
as Sid
TVLondon 2012 Olympic Games
2012
as Self
MovieGinger & Rosa
2012
as Mark
MovieUpside Down
2012
as Bob Boruchowitz
MovieThe Rise
2012
as D I West
MovieLondon 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music
2012
as Winston Churchill
MovieAssassin's Bullet
2012
as Dr. Kahn
TVThe Syndicate
2012
Boy
2012
TVTimothy Spall: All at Sea
2012
as Himself
MovieComes a Bright Day
2012
as Charlie
MovieMy Angel
2011
as Mr. Lambert
MovieReuniting the Rubins
2011
as Lennie Rubin
TVTimothy Spall: Back At Sea
2011
as Himself
MovieHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Peter Pettigrew
MovieWake Wood
2011
as Arthur
MovieThe King's Speech
2010
as Winston Churchill
MovieHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Peter Pettigrew
MovieJackboots on Whitehall
2010
as Churchill (voice)
MovieHeartless
2010
as George Morgan
TVTimothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
2010
as Himself
MovieAlice in Wonderland
2010
as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
TV10 Minute Tales
2009
as Man
MovieThe Fattest Man in Britain
2009
as Georgie Godwin
MovieFrom Time to Time
2009
as Boggis
MovieDesert Flower
2009
as Terry Donaldson
MovieGunrush
2009
as Doug Becket
MovieHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
as Peter Pettigrew
MovieThe Damned United
2009
as Peter Taylor
MovieAppaloosa
2008
as Phil Olson
A Room with a View
2008
as Mr Emerson
MovieSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007
as Beadle
TVOliver Twist
2007
as Fagin
MovieEnchanted
2007
as Nathaniel
MovieA Room with a View
2007
as Mr Emerson
MovieDeath Defying Acts
2007
as Sugarman
TVBritish Film Forever
2007
MovieHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
as Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
TVThe Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
MovieMysterious Creatures
2006
as Bill Ainscow
TVThe One Show
2006
as Self - Guest
TVThe Street
2006
as Eddie McEvoy
MovieTeenage Tourettes Camp
2006
as Narrator
MoviePierrepoint: The Last Hangman
2005
as Albert Pierrepoint
MovieHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
as Wormtail
Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
2005
as Malcolm Harvey
MovieCherished
2005
as Terry Cannings
MovieLemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004
as Mr. Poe
MovieHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
as Peter Pettigrew
MovieThe Last Samurai
2003
as Simon Graham
MovieGettin' Square
2003
as Darren Barrington
One Life
2003
MovieMy House in Umbria
2003
as Quinty
MovieNicholas Nickleby
2002
as Charles Cheeryble
MovieChristopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
2002
as Self
TVTop Gear
2002
as Self
MovieAll or Nothing
2002
as Phil
TVBodily Harm
2002
as Mitchel Greenfield
Ivor the Invisible
2001
as Dad (voice)
MovieVanilla Sky
2001
as Thomas Tipp
MovieRock Star
2001
as Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager
MovieLucky Break
2001
as Cliff
MovieVacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
2001
as Tommy Rag
TVPerfect Strangers
2001
as Irving
MovieThe Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001
as Luis Agalla
MovieIntimacy
2001
as Andy, Claire's husband
The Thing about Vince
2000
as Vince skinner
MovieThe Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
2000
as Cunningham
MovieChicken Run
2000
as Nick (voice)
MovieVatel
2000
as Gourville
MovieLove's Labour's Lost
2000
as Armado
MovieRough for Theatre II
2000
as B
MovieTopsy-Turvy
1999
as Richard Temple (The Mikado)
MovieThe Clandestine Marriage
1999
as Sterling
TVShooting the Past
1999
as Oswald Bates
MovieImmortality
1998
as Inspector Healey
MovieStill Crazy
1998
as David "Beano" Baggot
TVOur Mutual Friend
1998
as Mr Venus
TVParkinson
1998
as Self
MovieNeville's Island
1998
as Gordon
MovieThe Swords
1997
as Salesman
TVThe Hunger
1997
as Salesman
MovieHamlet
1996
as Rosencrantz
MovieSecrets & Lies
1996
as Maurice Purley
Nice Day at the Office
1994
The Danny Baker Show
1994
TVOutside Edge
1994
as Kevin Costello
TVFrank Stubbs Promotes
1993
as Frank Stubbs
MovieRoots
1992
as Jimmy Beales
MovieDread Poets' Society
1992
as Derek
TVThe Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
as Cunningham - Masseur
TVMurder Most Horrid
1991
as Pathologist
Not Mozart: WAM! Limited
1991
as Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart
Nona
1991
as Chico
Pebble Mill
1991
as Self
TVPerformance
1991
as Jimmy Beales
MovieBroke
1991
as Francis Meeks
MovieLife Is Sweet
1991
as Aubrey
TVSpender
1991
as Robert Cunningham
MovieThe Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
as Pig Robinson
MovieThe Sheltering Sky
1990
as Eric Lyle
Movie1871
1990
as Ramborde
MovieWhite Hunter, Black Heart
1990
as Hodkins
MovieCrusoe
1989
as Reverend Milne
MovieDavid Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
as Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)
MovieDream Demon
1988
as Peck
TVThis Morning
1988
as Self - Guest
MovieTo Kill a Priest
1988
as Igor
TVRed Dwarf
1988
as Andy
TVThe Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
as Porfiry
MovieJourney's End
1988
as Lt. Trotter
MovieBody Contact
1987
as Paul
MovieGothic
1987
as Dr. Polidori
TVScreenPlay
1986
as Francis Meeks
MovieDutch Girls
1985
as Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
MovieThe Bride
1985
as Paulus
MovieA Crack in the Ice
1985
as Pte. Postnikov
TVAuf Wiedersehen, Pet
1983
as Barry Taylor
MovieThe Missionary
1982
as Parswell
MovieRemembrance
1982
as Douglas
MovieOliver Twist
1982
as 1st Constable
MovieHome Sweet Home
1982
as Gordon
MovieA Cotswold Death
1982
as Detective Sergeant Baxter
The Three Sisters
1981
as Andrei
MovieThe Cherry Orchard
1981
as Epikhodov
Say No to Strangers
1981
as Stranger
MovieS.O.S. Titanic
1980
as Jim (uncredited)
MovieThe Brylcreem Boys
1979
as Shorty
MovieQuadrophenia
1979
as Projectionist
MovieThe Vanishing Army
1978
as Wainwright
MovieThe Life Story of Baal
1978
as Lupu
TVBBC2 Play of the Week
1977
as Wainwright
TVPlayhouse
1974
as Shorty
Film '72
1971
as Self
TVPlay for Today
1970
as Gordon
MovieUntitled 13
Murdering Michael Malloy
as Michael Malloy
