1957-02-27 Battersea, London, England, UK
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.
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Virginia Woolf's Night & Day | Mr Hilbery | 2026-03-05 |
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Goodbye June | 2025-12-12 | |
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Hamlet | Polonius | 2025-08-30 |
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La fiebre de los ricos | Sebastian Snail Sr. | 2024-12-12 |
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Wicked Little Letters | Edward Swan | 2024-02-23 |
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The Heist Before Christmas | Santa | 2023-12-24 |
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Bolan's Shoes | Jimmy | 2023-09-15 |
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Northern Comfort | Edward | 2023-08-09 |
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The Pale Blue Eye | Superintendent Thayer | 2022-12-22 |
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This Is Christmas | Ray | 2022-12-04 |
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The Last Bus | Tom | 2021-06-18 |
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Spencer | Major Alistair Gregorys | 2021-11-04 |
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The Grand Duke Of Corsica | Alfred Rott | 2021-10-15 |
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Nieva en Benidorm | Peter Riordan | 2020-12-11 |
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Grizzly II: Revenge | Rob (uncredited) | 2020-02-17 |
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The Corrupted | Clifford Cullen | 2019-05-10 |
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Mrs Lowry & Son | L.S. Lowry | 2019-08-30 |
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This Time Away | Nigel | 2019-03-30 |
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Early Man | Chief Bobnar (voice) | 2018-01-26 |
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Finding Your Feet | Charlie Glover | 2017-12-26 |
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The Party | Bill | 2017-07-27 |
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The Changeover | Carmody Braque | 2017-09-28 |
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The Journey | Ian Paisley | 2017-03-30 |
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Denial | David Irving | 2016-09-30 |
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Alice Through the Looking Glass | Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice) | 2016-05-25 |
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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 | 2016-10-07 |
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Away | Joseph | 2016-06-22 |
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Cider with Rosie | Laurie Lee (voice) | 2015-09-27 |
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Sucker | The Professor | 2015-08-15 |
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A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman | Self / Nick | 2015-12-26 |
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Fungus The Bogeyman | Fungus | 2015-12-27 |
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Mr. Turner | JMW Turner | 2014-10-31 |
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The Love Punch | Jerry | 2014-01-13 |
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The One and Only Mike Leigh | Self | 2014-11-24 |
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Back with the Boys Again | Himself | 2013-12-01 |
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Upside Down | Bob Boruchowitz | 2012-09-27 |
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Ginger & Rosa | Mark | 2012-10-18 |
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Boy | 2012-03-23 | |
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Assassin's Bullet | Dr. Kahn | 2012-08-01 |
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Room on the Broom | Dragon (voice) | 2012-12-25 |
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Wasteland | D I West | 2012-09-09 |
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Comes a Bright Day | Charlie | 2012-02-12 |
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Love Bite | Sid | 2012-11-09 |
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Wake Wood | Arthur | 2011-03-25 |
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Reuniting the Rubins | Lennie Rubin | 2011-10-21 |
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My Angel | Mr. Lambert | 2011-12-09 |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Peter Pettigrew | 2011-07-12 |
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The King's Speech | Winston Churchill | 2010-11-26 |
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Heartless | George Morgan | 2010-05-21 |
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Jackboots on Whitehall | Churchill (voice) | 2010-10-08 |
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Alice in Wonderland | Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice) | 2010-03-03 |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Peter Pettigrew | 2010-11-17 |
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Peter Pettigrew | 2009-07-15 |
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The Damned United | Peter Taylor | 2009-03-27 |
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From Time to Time | Boggis | 2009-10-15 |
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Gunrush | Doug Becket | 2009-08-22 |
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The Fattest Man in Britain | Georgie Godwin | 2009-12-20 |
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Desert Flower | Terry Donaldson | 2009-09-24 |
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Appaloosa | Phil Olson | 2008-09-19 |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Beadle | 2007-12-20 |
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Enchanted | Nathaniel | 2007-11-20 |
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Death Defying Acts | Sugarman | 2007-09-13 |
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Peter Pettigrew (uncredited) | 2007-07-08 |
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A Room with a View | Mr Emerson | 2007-11-04 |
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Teenage Tourettes Camp | Narrator | 2006-01-02 |
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Mysterious Creatures | Bill Ainscow | 2006-10-29 |
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Cherished | Terry Cannings | 2005-02-22 |
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Wormtail | 2005-11-16 |
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Mr Harvey Lights a Candle | Malcolm Harvey | 2005-03-26 |
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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman | Albert Pierrepoint | 2005-12-07 |
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Peter Pettigrew | 2004-05-31 |
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | Mr. Poe | 2004-12-16 |
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My House in Umbria | Quinty | 2003-05-25 |
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The Last Samurai | Simon Graham | 2003-12-05 |
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Gettin' Square | Darren Barrington | 2003-10-09 |
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Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Cheeryble | 2002-12-27 |
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All or Nothing | Phil | 2002-10-18 |
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Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages | Self | 2002-11-07 |
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Ivor the Invisible | Dad (voice) | 2001-12-24 |
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Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise | Tommy Rag | 2001-09-14 |
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Rock Star | Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager | 2001-09-04 |
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Intimacy | Andy, Claire's husband | 2001-01-20 |
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Lucky Break | Cliff | 2001-08-24 |
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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories | 2001-03-07 | |
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Vanilla Sky | Thomas Tipp | 2001-12-14 |
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Chicken Run | Nick (voice) | 2000-06-23 |
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Vatel | Gourville | 2000-05-01 |
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Rough for Theatre II | B | 2000-01-01 |
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades | Cunningham | 2000-07-13 |
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Love's Labour's Lost | Armado | 2000-03-31 |
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Topsy-Turvy | Richard Temple (The Mikado) | 1999-12-15 |
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The Clandestine Marriage | Sterling | 1999-11-12 |
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Neville's Island | Gordon | 1998-01-01 |
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Still Crazy | David "Beano" Baggot | 1998-10-30 |
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The Wisdom of Crocodiles | Inspector Healey | 1998-11-27 |
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The Swords | Salesman | 1997-07-20 |
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Secrets & Lies | Maurice Purley | 1996-05-24 |
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Hamlet | Rosencrantz | 1996-12-25 |
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Roots | Jimmy Beales | 1992-11-28 |
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Dread Poets' Society | Derek | 1992-09-23 |
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Not Mozart: WAM! Limited | Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart | 1991-11-03 |
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Nona | Chico | 1991-10-19 |
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Broke | Francis Meeks | 1991-07-10 |
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White Hunter, Black Heart | Hodkins | 1990-05-16 |
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The Tale of Little Pig Robinson | Pig Robinson | 1990-12-26 |
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1871 | Ramborde | 1990-09-09 |
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The Sheltering Sky | Eric Lyle | 1990-10-25 |
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Life Is Sweet | Aubrey | 1990-11-15 |
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David Macaulay: Pyramid | Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice) | 1989-01-04 |
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Dream Demon | Peck | 1988-10-06 |
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To Kill a Priest | Igor | 1988-09-07 |
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Crusoe | Reverend Milne | 1988-06-30 |
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Journey's End | Lt. Trotter | 1988-01-01 |
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Body Contact | Paul | 1987-12-06 |
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Gothic | Dr. Polidori | 1987-02-27 |
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A Crack in the Ice | Pte. Postnikov | 1985-08-06 |
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The Bride | Paulus | 1985-08-16 |
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Dutch Girls | Lyndon Baines Jellicoe | 1985-10-18 |
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A Cotswold Death | Detective Sergeant Baxter | 1982-01-12 |
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Remembrance | Douglas | 1982-10-01 |
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Oliver Twist | 1st Constable | 1982-03-23 |
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The Missionary | Parswell | 1982-11-02 |
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Home Sweet Home | Gordon | 1982-03-16 |
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The Three Sisters | Andrei | 1981-12-29 |
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Say No to Strangers | Stranger | 1981-01-01 |
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The Cherry Orchard | Epikhodov | 1981-10-13 |
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S.O.S. Titanic | Jim (uncredited) | 1980-02-29 |
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The Brylcreem Boys | Shorty | 1979-11-21 |
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Quadrophenia | Projectionist | 1979-09-14 |
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The Vanishing Army | Wainwright | 1978-11-29 |
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Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks |
