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.

Filmography

• 2026Hamlet — Polonius
• 2026Virginia Woolf's Night & Day — Terence Hilbery
• Death Valley — John Chapel, Executive Producer
• 2025Goodbye June — Bernie
• 2025Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
• 2024Rich Flu — Sebastian Snail Sr.
• 2024Wicked Little Letters — Edward Swan
• 2023Bolan's Shoes — Jimmy
• 2023Northern Comfort — Edward
• 2023The Heist Before Christmas — Santa
• The Sixth Commandment — Peter Farquhar
• 2022The Pale Blue Eye — Superintendent Thayer
• 2022This Is Christmas — Ray
• 2021Spencer — Major Alistair Gregorys
• 2021The Grand Duke of Corsica — Alfred Rott
• 2021The Last Bus — Tom, Executive Producer
• 2020Grizzly II: Revenge — Rob (uncredited)
• 2020It Snows in Benidorm — Peter Riordan
• Hatton Garden — Terry Perkins
• 2019Mrs Lowry & Son — L.S. Lowry
• Perpetual Grace LTD — Donald DeLoash
• Summer of Rockets — Lord Arthur Wallington
• 2019The Corrupted — Clifford Cullen
• 2019This Time Away — Nigel
• 2018Early Man — Chief Bobnar (voice)
• 2017Finding Your Feet — Charlie Glover
• Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams — Ed Jacobson
• 2017The Changeover — Carmody Braque
• 2017The Journey — Ian Paisley
• 2017The Party — Bill
• 2016Alice Through the Looking Glass — Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
• 2016Away — Joseph
• 2016Denial — David Irving
• 2016Stanley, 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, Screenplay
• 2015Cider with Rosie — Laurie Lee (voice)
• 2015Fungus The Bogeyman — Fungus
• Fungus the Bogeyman — Fungus
• 2015Sucker — The Professor
• The Enfield Haunting — Maurice Grosse
• Wolf Hall — Duke of Norfolk
• 20149 Kisses — Bartender
• 2014Mr. Turner — JMW Turner
• 2014The Love Punch — Jerry
• Blandings — Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
• 2012Assassin's Bullet — Dr. Kahn
• 2012Boy
• 2012Comes a Bright Day — Charlie
• 2012Ginger & Rosa — Mark
• 2012London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music — Winston Churchill
• 2012Love Bite — Sid
• 2012Room on the Broom — Dragon (voice)
• 2012The Rise — D I West
• The Syndicate
• 2012Upside Down — Bob Boruchowitz
• 2011Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 — Peter Pettigrew
• 2011My Angel — Mr. Lambert
• 2011Reuniting the Rubins — Lennie Rubin
• 2011Wake Wood — Arthur
• 2010Alice in Wonderland — Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
• 2010Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 — Peter Pettigrew
• 2010Heartless — George Morgan
• 2010Jackboots on Whitehall — Churchill (voice)
• 2010The King's Speech — Winston Churchill
• 10 Minute Tales — Man
• 2009Desert Flower — Terry Donaldson
• 2009From Time to Time — Boggis
• 2009Gunrush — Doug Becket
• 2009Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince — Peter Pettigrew
• 2009The Damned United — Peter Taylor
• 2009The Fattest Man in Britain — Georgie Godwin
• A Room with a View — Mr Emerson
• 2008Appaloosa — Phil Olson
• 2007A Room with a View — Mr Emerson
• British Film Forever
• 2007Death Defying Acts — Sugarman
• 2007Enchanted — Nathaniel
• 2007Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix — Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
• Oliver Twist — Fagin
• 2007Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street — Beadle
• 2006Mysterious Creatures — Bill Ainscow
• 2006Teenage Tourettes Camp — Narrator
• The Street — Eddie McEvoy
• 2005Cherished — Terry Cannings
• 2005Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire — Wormtail
• 2005Mr Harvey Lights a Candle — Malcolm Harvey
• 2005Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman — Albert Pierrepoint
• 2004Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban — Peter Pettigrew
• 2004Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events — Mr. Poe
• 2003Gettin' Square — Darren Barrington
• 2003My House in Umbria — Quinty
• One Life
• 2003The Last Samurai — Simon Graham
• 2002All or Nothing — Phil
• Bodily Harm — Mitchel Greenfield
• 2002Nicholas Nickleby — Charles Cheeryble
• 2001Intimacy — Andy, Claire's husband
• 2001Ivor the Invisible — Dad (voice)
• 2001Lucky Break — Cliff
• Perfect Strangers — Irving
• 2001Rock Star — Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager
• 2001The Old Man Who Read Love Stories — Luis Agalla
• 2001Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise — Tommy Rag
• 2001Vanilla Sky — Thomas Tipp
• 2000Chicken Run — Nick (voice)
• 2000Love's Labour's Lost — Armado
• 2000Rough for Theatre II — B
• 2000The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades — Cunningham
• The Thing about Vince — Vince Skinner
• 2000Vatel — Gourville
• Shooting the Past — Oswald Bates
• 1999The Clandestine Marriage — Sterling
• 1999Topsy-Turvy — Richard Temple (The Mikado)
• 1998Immortality — Inspector Healey
• 1998Neville's Island — Gordon
• Our Mutual Friend — Mr Venus
• 1998Still Crazy — David "Beano" Baggot
• The Hunger — Salesman
• 1997The Swords — Salesman
• 1996Hamlet — Rosencrantz
• 1996Secrets & Lies — Maurice Purley
• 1995Jeremy Hardy Gives Good Sex
• Nice Day at the Office
• Outside Edge — Kevin Costello
• The Danny Baker Show
• Frank Stubbs Promotes — Frank Stubbs
• 1992Dread Poets' Society — Derek
• 1992Roots — Jimmy Beales
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles — Cunningham - Masseur
• 1991Broke — Francis Meeks
• 1991Life Is Sweet — Aubrey
• Murder Most Horrid — Pathologist
• 1991Nona — Chico
• 1991Not Mozart: WAM! Limited — Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart
• Performance — Jimmy Beales, Chico
• Spender — Robert Cunningham
• 19901871 — Ramborde
• Stolen — Donald Caudell
• 1990The Sheltering Sky — Eric Lyle
• 1990The Tale of Little Pig Robinson — Pig Robinson
• 1990White Hunter, Black Heart — Hodkins
• 1989Crusoe — Reverend Milne
• 1989David Macaulay: Pyramid — Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)
• 1988Dream Demon — Peck
• 1988Journey's End — Lt. Trotter
• Red Dwarf — Andy
• The Modern World: Ten Great Writers — Porfiry
• 1988To Kill a Priest — Igor
• 1987Body Contact — Paul
• 1987Gothic — Dr. Polidori
• ScreenPlay — Francis Meeks, Derek
• 1985A Crack in the Ice — Pte. Postnikov
• 1985Dutch Girls — Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
• 1985The Bride — Paulus
• Auf Wiedersehen, Pet — Barry Taylor
• 1982A Cotswold Death — Detective Sergeant Baxter
• 1982Home Sweet Home — Gordon
• 1982Oliver Twist — 1st Constable
• 1982Remembrance — Douglas
• 1982The Missionary — Parswell
• 1981Say No to Strangers — Stranger
• 1981The Cherry Orchard — Epikhodov
• 1981The Three Sisters — Andrei
• 1980S.O.S. Titanic — Jim (uncredited)
• 1979Quadrophenia — Projectionist
• 1979The Brylcreem Boys — Shorty
• 1978The Life Story of Baal — Lupu
• 1978The Vanishing Army — Wainwright
• BBC2 Play of the Week — Wainwright
• Playhouse — Shorty
• Play for Today — Gordon, Detective Sergeant Baxter
• Late in Summer — Executive Producer
• Murdering Michael Malloy — Michael Malloy
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Appearances as themselves (19)

• Remembers… — Self
• Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg — Self – Actor
• 2015A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman — Self / Nick
• 2014The One and Only Mike Leigh — Self
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• 2013Back with the Boys Again — Himself
• London 2012 Olympic Games — Self
• Timothy Spall: All at Sea — Himself
• Timothy Spall: Back At Sea — Himself
• Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea — Himself
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• The One Show — Self - Guest
• Parkinson — Self - Guest
• 2002Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages — Self
• Top Gear — Self
• Parkinson — Self
• Pebble Mill — Self
• This Morning — Self - Guest
• Film '72 — Self