
Acting
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.
Also known as | Tim Spall |
Popular as | Acting |
Gender | MALE |
Birthday | February 27, 1957 (68 years old) |
| Year | Movie & Role |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Virginia Woolf's Night & Day as Mr Hilbery |
| 2026 | Hamlet as Polonius |
| 2025 | Goodbye June as Actor |
| 2025 | Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks as Actor |
| 2024 | Wicked Little Letters as Edward Swan |
| 2024 | Rich Flu as Sebastian Snail Sr. |
| 2023 | Bolan's Shoes as Jimmy |
| 2023 | Northern Comfort as Edward |
| 2023 | The Heist Before Christmas as Santa |
| 2022 | The Pale Blue Eye as Superintendent Thayer |
| 2022 | This Is Christmas as Ray |
| 2021 | Spencer as Major Alistair Gregorys |
| 2021 | The Last Bus as Tom, Production |
| 2021 | The Grand Duke Of Corsica as Alfred Rott |
| 2020 | It Snows in Benidorm as Peter Riordan |
| 2020 | Grizzly II: Revenge as Rob (uncredited) |
| 2019 | The Corrupted as Clifford Cullen |
| 2019 | Mrs Lowry & Son as L.S. Lowry |
| 2019 | This Time Away as Nigel |
| 2018 | Early Man as Chief Bobnar (voice) |