
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.
TV Shows(30)

Death Valley
John Chapel

The Sixth Commandment
Peter Farquhar

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self – Actor

Remembers…
Self

Perpetual Grace LTD
Donald DeLoash

Hatton Garden
Terry Perkins

Summer of Rockets
Lord Arthur Wallington

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Ed Jacobson

The Enfield Haunting
Maurice Grosse

Fungus the Bogeyman
Fungus

Wolf Hall
Duke of Norfolk

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self

Blandings
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth

The Syndicate

Timothy Spall: All at Sea
Himself

London 2012 Olympic Games
Self

Timothy Spall: Back At Sea
Himself

Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
Himself

10 Minute Tales
Man
A Room with a View
Mr Emerson