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 | 2026-05-14 |
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Hamlet | Polonius | 2026-02-06 |
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Goodbye June | Bernie | 2025-12-12 |
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Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks | 2025-11-19 | |
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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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Bolan's Shoes | Jimmy | 2023-09-15 |
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The Heist Before Christmas | Santa | 2023-12-24 |
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Northern Comfort | Edward | 2023-08-09 |
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This Is Christmas | Ray | 2022-12-04 |
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The Pale Blue Eye | Superintendent Thayer | 2022-12-22 |
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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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Grizzly II: Revenge | Rob (uncredited) | 2020-02-17 |
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Nieva en Benidorm | Peter Riordan | 2020-12-11 |
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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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The Changeover | Carmody Braque | 2017-09-28 |
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Finding Your Feet | Charlie Glover | 2017-12-26 |
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The Journey | Ian Paisley | 2017-03-30 |
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The Party | Bill | 2017-07-27 |
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Denial | David Irving | 2016-09-30 |
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Away | Joseph | 2016-06-22 |
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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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Alice Through the Looking Glass | Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice) | 2016-05-25 |
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A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman | Self / Nick | 2015-12-26 |
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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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Fungus The Bogeyman | Fungus | 2015-12-27 |
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The One and Only Mike Leigh | Self | 2014-11-24 |
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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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Back with the Boys Again | Himself | 2013-12-01 |
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Ginger & Rosa | Mark | 2012-10-18 |
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Upside Down | Bob Boruchowitz | 2012-09-27 |
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Assassin's Bullet | Dr. Kahn | 2012-08-01 |
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Wasteland | D I West | 2012-09-09 |
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Room on the Broom | Dragon (voice) | 2012-12-25 |
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Boy | 2012-03-23 | |
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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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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Peter Pettigrew | 2011-07-12 |
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My Angel | Mr. Lambert | 2011-12-09 |
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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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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Peter Pettigrew | 2010-11-17 |
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Alice in Wonderland | Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice) | 2010-03-03 |
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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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The King's Speech | Winston Churchill | 2010-11-26 |
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Peter Pettigrew | 2009-07-15 |
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Desert Flower | Terry Donaldson | 2009-09-24 |
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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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The Damned United | Peter Taylor | 2009-03-27 |
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From Time to Time | Boggis | 2009-10-15 |
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Appaloosa | Phil Olson | 2008-09-19 |
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A Room with a View | Mr Emerson | 2007-11-04 |
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Death Defying Acts | Sugarman | 2007-09-13 |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Beadle | 2007-12-21 |
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Enchanted | Nathaniel | 2007-11-20 |
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Peter Pettigrew (uncredited) | 2007-07-08 |
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Mysterious Creatures | Bill Ainscow | 2006-10-29 |
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Teenage Tourettes Camp | Narrator | 2006-01-02 |
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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 Goblet of Fire | Wormtail | 2005-11-16 |
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Cherished | Terry Cannings | 2005-02-22 |
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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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Gettin' Square | Darren Barrington | 2003-10-09 |
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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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All or Nothing | Phil | 2002-10-18 |
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Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Cheeryble | 2002-12-27 |
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Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages | Self | 2002-11-07 |
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Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise | Tommy Rag | 2001-09-14 |
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Ivor the Invisible | Dad (voice) | 2001-12-24 |
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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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Vanilla Sky | Thomas Tipp | 2001-12-14 |
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Lucky Break | Cliff | 2001-08-24 |
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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories | Luis Agalla | 2001-03-07 |
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades | Cunningham | 2000-07-13 |
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Rough for Theatre II | B | 2000-01-01 |
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Vatel | Gourville | 2000-05-01 |
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Chicken Run | Nick (voice) | 2000-06-23 |
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Love's Labour's Lost | Armado | 2000-03-31 |
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The Clandestine Marriage | Sterling | 1999-11-12 |
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Topsy-Turvy | Richard Temple (The Mikado) | 1999-12-15 |
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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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Neville's Island | Gordon | 1998-01-01 |
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The Swords | Salesman | 1997-07-20 |
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Hamlet | Rosencrantz | 1996-12-25 |
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Secrets & Lies | Maurice Purley | 1996-05-24 |
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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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Broke | Francis Meeks | 1991-07-10 |
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Nona | Chico | 1991-10-19 |
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Not Mozart: WAM! Limited | Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart | 1991-11-03 |
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1871 | Ramborde | 1990-09-09 |
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White Hunter, Black Heart | Hodkins | 1990-05-16 |
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Life Is Sweet | Aubrey | 1990-11-15 |
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The Tale of Little Pig Robinson | Pig Robinson | 1990-12-26 |
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The Sheltering Sky | Eric Lyle | 1990-10-25 |
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David Macaulay: Pyramid | Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice) | 1989-01-04 |
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Journey's End | Lt. Trotter | 1988-01-01 |
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Crusoe | Reverend Milne | 1988-06-30 |
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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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Gothic | Dr. Polidori | 1987-02-27 |
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Body Contact | Paul | 1987-12-06 |
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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 Crack in the Ice | Pte. Postnikov | 1985-08-06 |
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Home Sweet Home | Gordon | 1982-03-16 |
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A Cotswold Death | Detective Sergeant Baxter | 1982-01-12 |
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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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Remembrance | Douglas | 1982-10-01 |
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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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The Three Sisters | Andrei | 1981-12-29 |
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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 Life Story of Baal | Lupu | 1978-11-21 |
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The Vanishing Army | Wainwright | 1978-11-29 |
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