Timothy Spall
ActingTimothy 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
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Wormtail
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Peter Pettigrew
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Peter Pettigrew
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Peter Pettigrew
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Peter Pettigrew
Alice in Wonderland
Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
The Last Samurai
Simon Graham
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
Chicken Run
Nick (voice)
Filmography — Acting
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Wormtail
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Peter Pettigrew
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Peter Pettigrew
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Peter Pettigrew
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Peter Pettigrew
Alice in Wonderland
Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
The Last Samurai
Simon Graham
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
Chicken Run
Nick (voice)
The King's Speech
Winston Churchill
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Beadle
Enchanted
Nathaniel
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Mr. Poe
Rich Flu
Sebastian Snail Sr.
Vanilla Sky
Thomas Tipp
Intimacy
Andy, Claire's husband
Early Man
Chief Bobnar (voice)
The Pale Blue Eye
Superintendent Thayer
Hamlet
Rosencrantz
Hamlet
Polonius
Goodbye June
Bernie
Upside Down
Bob Boruchowitz
The Last Bus
Tom
The Party
Bill
Spencer
Major Alistair Gregorys
Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Cheeryble
Rock Star
Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager
Wicked Little Letters
Edward Swan
Denial
David Irving
Ginger & Rosa
Mark
Desert Flower
Terry Donaldson
Appaloosa
Phil Olson
All or Nothing
Phil
Quadrophenia
Projectionist
Mr. Turner
JMW Turner
Still Crazy
David "Beano" Baggot
Topsy-Turvy
Richard Temple (The Mikado)
The Love Punch
Jerry
Vatel
Gourville
Secrets & Lies
Maurice Purley
Life Is Sweet
Aubrey
Love's Labour's Lost
Armado
The Bride
Paulus
Gothic
Dr. Polidori
The Damned United
Peter Taylor
From Time to Time
Boggis
Room on the Broom
Dragon (voice)
Crusoe
Reverend Milne
White Hunter, Black Heart
Hodkins
Death Defying Acts
Sugarman
Night & Day
Mr Hilbery
Heartless
George Morgan
This Is Christmas
Ray
Finding Your Feet
Charlie Glover
The Sheltering Sky
Eric Lyle
The Corrupted
Clifford Cullen
The Rise
D I West
The Changeover
Carmody Braque
Remembrance
Douglas
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Albert Pierrepoint
The Missionary
Parswell
Love Bite
Sid
S.O.S. Titanic
Jim (uncredited)
Immortality
Inspector Healey
Grizzly II: Revenge
Rob (uncredited)
Lucky Break
Cliff
Wake Wood
Arthur
The Journey
Ian Paisley
To Kill a Priest
Igor
Mrs Lowry & Son
L.S. Lowry
My House in Umbria
Quinty
The Fattest Man in Britain
Georgie Godwin
Dream Demon
Peck
Gunrush
Doug Becket
Away
Joseph
Oliver Twist
1st Constable
A Room with a View
Mr Emerson
Cider with Rosie
Laurie Lee (voice)
Fungus The Bogeyman
Fungus
Cherished
Terry Cannings
Body Contact
Paul
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
Self / Nick
Gettin' Square
Darren Barrington
Northern Comfort
Edward
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Self
Dutch Girls
Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
Comes a Bright Day
Charlie
Assassin's Bullet
Dr. Kahn
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Pig Robinson
The Grand Duke Of Corsica
Alfred Rott
Jackboots on Whitehall
Churchill (voice)
Dread Poets' Society
Derek
The Brylcreem Boys
Shorty
Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
Malcolm Harvey
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Luis Agalla
The Cherry Orchard
Epikhodov
The One and Only Mike Leigh
Self
David Macaulay: Pyramid
Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
Tommy Rag
My Angel
Mr. Lambert
Sucker
The Professor
The Vanishing Army
Wainwright
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
Cunningham
The Heist Before Christmas
Santa
The Life Story of Baal
Lupu
The Clandestine Marriage
Sterling
Nona
Chico
Mysterious Creatures
Bill Ainscow
Broke
Francis Meeks
1871
Ramborde
Boy
Roots
Jimmy Beales
The Swords
Salesman
Rough for Theatre II
B
The Three Sisters
Andrei
It Snows in Benidorm
Peter Riordan
A Crack in the Ice
Pte. Postnikov
Reuniting the Rubins
Lennie Rubin
Back with the Boys Again
Himself
Ivor the Invisible
Dad (voice)
9 Kisses
Bartender
Say No to Strangers
Stranger
Neville's Island
Gordon
Journey's End
Lt. Trotter
Stanley, a Man of Variety
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
Home Sweet Home
Gordon
A Cotswold Death
Detective Sergeant Baxter
Bolan's Shoes
Jimmy
Untitled 13
This Time Away
Nigel
Not Mozart: WAM! Limited
Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart
Teenage Tourettes Camp
Narrator