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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1957-02-27
Place of birth
Battersea, London, England, UK
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Cast
The Last Samurai
2003
7.59
Immortality
1998
5.80
Still Crazy
1998
6.70
Vanilla Sky
2001
6.81
Quadrophenia
1979
7.04
Enchanted
2007
6.84
Secrets & Lies
1996
7.56
The Damned United
2009
7.22
The Sheltering Sky
1990
6.50
Chicken Run
2000
6.83
Gettin' Square
2003
6.40
Rich Flu
2024
5.03
Vatel
2000
6.10
Intimacy
2001
6.25
Alice in Wonderland
2010
6.64
Gothic
1987
5.73
All or Nothing
2002
7.10
Bolan's Shoes
2023
6.00
Appaloosa
2008
6.58
Desert Flower
2009
7.52
The Fattest Man in Britain
2009
5.90
Death Defying Acts
2007
6.01
Dutch Girls
1985
4.40
Lucky Break
2001
6.20
The Bride
1985
5.28
Nicholas Nickleby
2002
6.90
My House in Umbria
2003
6.10
The Pale Blue Eye
2022
6.84
Life Is Sweet
1990
7.00
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
2005
7.20
Neville's Island
1998
5.60
Heartless
2010
5.90
Roots
1992
0.00
Topsy-Turvy
1999
6.64
To Kill a Priest
1988
6.00
Dream Demon
1988
5.68
From Time to Time
2009
6.30
Oliver Twist
1982
6.72
Love's Labour's Lost
2000
5.50
The Missionary
1982
5.60
Upside Down
2012
6.27
Wake Wood
2011
5.60
Jackboots on Whitehall
2010
5.00
Reuniting the Rubins
2011
5.50
Ginger & Rosa
2012
6.06
Love Bite
2012
5.38
Wasteland
2012
6.70
Room on the Broom
2012
6.50
Rough for Theatre II
2000
5.20
Comes a Bright Day
2012
5.60
Assassin's Bullet
2012
4.00
The Clandestine Marriage
1999
6.00
Body Contact
1987
4.20
Boy
2012
6.88
Gunrush
2009
6.00
The Love Punch
2014
6.03
Teenage Tourettes Camp
2006
7.50
My Angel
2011
4.00
1871
1990
4.80
Northern Comfort
2023
5.53
Mr. Turner
2014
6.50
The King's Speech
2010
7.73
Dread Poets' Society
1992
0.00
Hamlet
1996
7.33
Mysterious Creatures
2006
8.00
The Heist Before Christmas
2023
5.00
Say No to Strangers
1981
7.00
Spencer
2021
6.80
Not Mozart: WAM! Limited
1991
0.00
Home Sweet Home
1982
6.30
This Is Christmas
2022
6.90
Wicked Little Letters
2024
6.94
Untitled 13
0.00
The Brylcreem Boys
1979
0.00
9 Kisses
2014
6.20
The Three Sisters
1981
0.00
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
6.60
S.O.S. Titanic
1980
5.90
Cider with Rosie
2015
5.70
Ivor the Invisible
2001
7.00
Rock Star
2001
6.74
Back With The Boys Again
2013
0.00
Broke
1991
0.00
Nona
1991
0.00
Fungus The Bogeyman
2015
2.50
A Room with a View
2007
5.70
Remembrance
1982
4.80
Night and Day
0.00
Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
2005
8.33
The Cherry Orchard
1981
0.00
Away
2016
6.20
Denial
2016
6.86
Crusoe
1988
5.80
Hamlet
0.00
The Party
2017
6.35
The Journey
2017
6.30
The Changeover
2017
5.66
Finding Your Feet
2017
7.10
Stanley, a Man of Variety
2016
5.50
Sucker
2015
5.30
The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014
9.00
Cherished
2005
7.00
Early Man
2018
6.15
Journey's End
1988
7.00
White Hunter, Black Heart
1990
6.37
The Corrupted
2019
6.10
The Vanishing Army
1978
0.00
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
0.00
Mrs Lowry & Son
2019
6.48
The Grand Duke Of Corsica
2021
3.80
This Time Away
2019
6.80
The Last Bus
2021
6.48
It Snows in Benidorm
2020
5.78
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
0.00
A Cotswold Death
1982
7.00
Grizzly II: Revenge
2020
2.90
Goodbye June
0.00
The Swords
1997
0.00