Timothy Spall

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

184

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

  • The Graham Norton Show

    The Graham Norton Show

  • The One Show

    The One Show

  • The One Show

    The One Show

  • Top Gear

    Top Gear

  • Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

    Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

  • Play for Today

    Play for Today

  • Play for Today

    Play for Today

  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • Alice in Wonderland

    Alice in Wonderland

  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

  • Pebble Mill

    Pebble Mill

  • Red Dwarf

    Red Dwarf

  • Parkinson

    Parkinson

  • Playhouse

    Playhouse

  • The Last Samurai

    The Last Samurai

  • Alice Through the Looking Glass

    Alice Through the Looking Glass

  • Performance

    Performance

  • Performance

    Performance

  • The Hunger

    The Hunger

  • Intimacy

    Intimacy

  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

    Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

  • Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

    Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

  • Wolf Hall

    Wolf Hall

  • Early Man

    Early Man

  • The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

    The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

  • BBC2 Play of the Week

    BBC2 Play of the Week

  • Chicken Run

    Chicken Run

  • The King's Speech

    The King's Speech

  • Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

    Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

  • Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

    Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

  • Murder Most Horrid

    Murder Most Horrid

  • The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

    The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

  • Nicholas Nickleby

    Nicholas Nickleby

  • Rock Star

    Rock Star

  • Vanilla Sky

    Vanilla Sky

  • Hamlet

    Hamlet

  • Enchanted

    Enchanted

  • Goodbye June

    Goodbye June

  • Hamlet

    Hamlet

  • Finding Your Feet

    Finding Your Feet

  • Wicked Little Letters

    Wicked Little Letters

  • Wasteland

    Wasteland

  • Perpetual Grace LTD

    Perpetual Grace LTD

  • Rough for Theatre II

    Rough for Theatre II

  • Desert Flower

    Desert Flower

  • Rich Flu

    Rich Flu

  • Gothic

    Gothic

  • Neville's Island

    Neville's Island

  • Topsy-Turvy

    Topsy-Turvy

  • A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman

    A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman

  • From Time to Time

    From Time to Time

  • The Love Punch

    The Love Punch

  • Creating the World of Harry Potter

    Creating the World of Harry Potter

  • Secrets & Lies

    Secrets & Lies

  • Ginger & Rosa

    Ginger & Rosa

  • The Street

    The Street

  • Upside Down

    Upside Down

  • Remembrance

    Remembrance

  • Assassin's Bullet

    Assassin's Bullet

  • The Pale Blue Eye

    The Pale Blue Eye

  • Sucker

    Sucker

  • The Syndicate

    The Syndicate

  • The Three Sisters

    The Three Sisters

  • Oliver Twist

    Oliver Twist

  • Home Sweet Home

    Home Sweet Home

  • My House in Umbria

    My House in Umbria

  • Crusoe

    Crusoe

  • Mr. Turner

    Mr. Turner

  • Blandings

    Blandings

  • Spender

    Spender

  • Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

    Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

  • The Damned United

    The Damned United

  • Appaloosa

    Appaloosa

  • Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

    Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

  • Away

    Away

  • Frank Stubbs Promotes

    Frank Stubbs Promotes

  • Cherished

    Cherished

  • Northern Comfort

    Northern Comfort

  • Death Valley

    Death Valley

  • White Hunter, Black Heart

    White Hunter, Black Heart

  • The Grand Duke Of Corsica

    The Grand Duke Of Corsica

  • The Journey

    The Journey

  • Life Is Sweet

    Life Is Sweet

  • Journey's End

    Journey's End

  • The Sheltering Sky

    The Sheltering Sky

  • The Enfield Haunting

    The Enfield Haunting

  • A Room with a View

    A Room with a View

  • Spencer

    Spencer

  • Fungus The Bogeyman

    Fungus The Bogeyman

  • Fungus the Bogeyman

    Fungus the Bogeyman

  • Still Crazy

    Still Crazy

  • The Changeover

    The Changeover

  • Love's Labour's Lost

    Love's Labour's Lost

  • The Cherry Orchard

    The Cherry Orchard

  • Our Mutual Friend

    Our Mutual Friend

  • Immortality

    Immortality

  • 1871

    1871

  • Room on the Broom

    Room on the Broom

  • The Corrupted

    The Corrupted

  • The Brylcreem Boys

    The Brylcreem Boys

  • Death Defying Acts

    Death Defying Acts

  • The Bride

    The Bride

  • Mr Harvey Lights a Candle

    Mr Harvey Lights a Candle

  • Oliver Twist

    Oliver Twist

  • Hatton Garden

    Hatton Garden

  • The Last Bus

    The Last Bus

  • The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

    The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

  • A Cotswold Death

    A Cotswold Death

  • 10 Minute Tales

    10 Minute Tales

  • Heartless

    Heartless

  • The Clandestine Marriage

    The Clandestine Marriage

  • Jackboots on Whitehall

    Jackboots on Whitehall

  • This Morning

    This Morning

  • Dream Demon

    Dream Demon

  • Broke

    Broke

  • Grizzly II: Revenge

    Grizzly II: Revenge

  • Summer of Rockets

    Summer of Rockets

  • Perfect Strangers

    Perfect Strangers

  • London 2012 Olympic Games

    London 2012 Olympic Games

  • Quadrophenia

    Quadrophenia

  • The Sixth Commandment

    The Sixth Commandment

  • Love Bite

    Love Bite

  • S.O.S. Titanic

    S.O.S. Titanic

  • Gunrush

    Gunrush

  • Vatel

    Vatel

  • The One and Only Mike Leigh

    The One and Only Mike Leigh

  • The Party

    The Party

  • Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise

    Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise

  • Wake Wood

    Wake Wood

  • Outside Edge

    Outside Edge

  • All or Nothing

    All or Nothing

  • Nona

    Nona

  • This Is Christmas

    This Is Christmas

  • Ivor the Invisible

    Ivor the Invisible

  • The Danny Baker Show

    The Danny Baker Show

  • Lucky Break

    Lucky Break

  • The Missionary

    The Missionary

  • David Macaulay: Pyramid

    David Macaulay: Pyramid

  • Shooting the Past

    Shooting the Past

  • Virginia Woolf's Night & Day

    Virginia Woolf's Night & Day

  • Roots

    Roots

  • The Swords

    The Swords

  • A Crack in the Ice

    A Crack in the Ice

  • Comes a Bright Day

    Comes a Bright Day

  • Boy

    Boy

  • Denial

    Denial

  • Dutch Girls

    Dutch Girls

  • To Kill a Priest

    To Kill a Priest

  • Cider with Rosie

    Cider with Rosie

  • Mysterious Creatures

    Mysterious Creatures

  • My Angel

    My Angel

  • British Film Forever

    British Film Forever

  • One Life

    One Life

  • Body Contact

    Body Contact

  • Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks

    Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks

  • Say No to Strangers

    Say No to Strangers

  • Gettin' Square

    Gettin' Square

  • Bodily Harm

    Bodily Harm

  • The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

    The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

  • Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages

    Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages

  • Nice Day at the Office

    Nice Day at the Office

  • The Thing about Vince

    The Thing about Vince

  • Bolan's Shoes

    Bolan's Shoes

  • Timothy Spall: Back At Sea

    Timothy Spall: Back At Sea

  • This Time Away

    This Time Away

  • Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea

    Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea

  • Timothy Spall: All at Sea

    Timothy Spall: All at Sea

  • The Heist Before Christmas

    The Heist Before Christmas

  • Mrs Lowry & Son

    Mrs Lowry & Son

  • Reuniting the Rubins

    Reuniting the Rubins

  • The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades

  • It Snows in Benidorm

    It Snows in Benidorm

  • The Fattest Man in Britain

    The Fattest Man in Britain

  • Dread Poets' Society

    Dread Poets' Society

  • Stanley, a Man of Variety

    Stanley, a Man of Variety

  • The Vanishing Army

    The Vanishing Army

  • Untitled 13

    Untitled 13

  • Teenage Tourettes Camp

    Teenage Tourettes Camp

  • Not Mozart: WAM! Limited

    Not Mozart: WAM! Limited

  • Back With The Boys Again

    Back With The Boys Again