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.
Movies
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Peter Pettigrew
The Last Samurai
Simon Graham
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Peter Pettigrew
The Wisdom of Crocodiles
Inspector Healey
Still Crazy
David "Beano" Baggot
Vanilla Sky
Thomas Tipp
Quadrophenia
Projectionist
Enchanted
Nathaniel
Secrets & Lies
Maurice Purley
The Damned United
Peter Taylor
Gettin' Square
Darren Barrington
Vatel
Gourville
The Sheltering Sky
Eric Lyle
Chicken Run
Nick (voice)
Intimacy
Andy, Claire's husband
Alice in Wonderland
The Bloodhound (voice)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Peter Pettigrew
All or Nothing
Phil
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Peter Pettigrew
Appaloosa
Phil Olson
Gothic
Dr. Polidori
Desert Flower
Terry Donaldson
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Mr. Poe
The Fattest Man in Britain
Georgie Godwin
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Beadle
Death Defying Acts
Sugarman
Lucky Break
Cliff
The Bride
Paulus
Dutch Girls
Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Cheeryble
My House in Umbria
Quinty
Life Is Sweet
Aubrey
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Albert Pierrepoint
Neville's Island
Gordon
Heartless
George Morgan
Topsy-Turvy
Richard Temple (The Mikado)
The King's Speech
Winston Churchill
To Kill a Priest
Igor
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Dream Demon
Peck
From Time to Time
Boggis
Oliver Twist
1st Constable
Love's Labour's Lost
Armado
The Missionary
Parswell
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
Tommy Rag
Jackboots on Whitehall
Churchill (voice)
Wake Wood
Arthur
Reuniting the Rubins
Lennie Rubin
Ginger & Rosa
Mark
Love Bite
Sid
Room on the Broom
Dragon (voice)
Rough for Theatre II
B
Comes a Bright Day
Charlie
Assassin's Bullet
Dr. Kahn
The Clandestine Marriage
Sterling
Body Contact
Paul
Boy
Gunrush
Doug Becket
The Love Punch
Jerry
Teenage Tourettes Camp
Narrator
My Angel
Mr. Lambert
1871
Ramborde
Mr. Turner
JMW Turner
Hamlet
Rosencrantz
Say No to Strangers
Not Mozart: WAM! Limited
Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart
Home Sweet Home
Gordon
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Peter Pettigrew
The Brylcreem Boys
Shorty
Upside Down
Bob Boruchowitz
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Bayard (voice)
Ivor the Invisible
Dad (voice)
Rock Star
Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager
Back With The Boys Again
Himself
Cider with Rosie
Laurie Lee (voice)
Nona
Chico
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
Self / Nick
A Room with a View
Mr Emerson
Remembrance
Douglas
Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
The Cherry Orchard
Epikhodov
Away
Joseph
Denial
David Irving
Crusoe
Reverend Milne
The Party
Bill
The Journey
Ian Paisley
9 Kisses
Arm Wrestling Man #2
Finding Your Feet
Charlie Glover
The Changeover
Carmody Braque
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
Sucker
The Professor
Fungus The Bogeyman
Fungus
The One and Only Mike Leigh
Himself
Mysterious Creatures
Bill Ainscow
Cherished
Terry Cannings
The Rise
D I West
Early Man
Chief Bobnar (voice)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
Journey's End
Lt. Trotter
White Hunter, Black Heart
Hodkins
The Corrupted
Clifford Cullen
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
Cunningham
The Vanishing Army
Wainwright
David Macaulay: Pyramid
Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)
Mrs Lowry & Son
L.S. Lowry
The Grand Duke Of Corsica
Alfred Rott
This Time Away
Nigel
The Last Bus
Tom
It Snows in Benidorm
Peter Riordan
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Pig Robinson
A Cotswold Death
Detective Sergeant Baxter
Grizzly II: Revenge
Rob (uncredited)
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Self
Bodily Harm
Mitchel Greenfield
The Pale Blue Eye
Superintendent Thayer
Northern Comfort
Edward
Dread Poets' Society
Derek
This Is Christmas
Ray
Wicked Little Letters
Edward Swan
S.O.S. Titanic
Jim (uncredited)
Broke
Francis Meeks
Rich Flu
Bolan's Shoes
Jimmy
Roots
Jimmy Beales
The Heist Before Christmas
Santa
Spencer
Major Alistair Gregorys
Untitled 13
The Three Sisters
Andrei
Night and Day
Shows
Top Gear
Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Barry Taylor
Red Dwarf
Andy
Oliver Twist
Fagin
Play for Today
Gordon
Fungus the Bogeyman
Fungus
Outside Edge
Frank Stubbs Promotes
Frank Stubbs
The Danny Baker Show
This Morning
Self - Guest
Murder Most Horrid
Pathologist
The One Show
Self - Guest
Spender
Robert Cunningham
The Hunger
Salesman
The Syndicate
Pebble Mill
Self
One Life
Nice Day at the Office
The Enfield Haunting
Maurice Grosse
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Ed Jacobson
British Film Forever
Himself
Perfect Strangers
Our Mutual Friend
Timothy Spall: All at Sea
Himself
Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
Himself
Timothy Spall: Back At Sea
Himself
Hatton Garden
Terry Perkins
The Graham Norton Show
Himself
Performance
Chico
Summer of Rockets
Lord Arthur Wallington
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Cunningham - Masseur
Performance
Jimmy Beales
10 Minute Tales
Blandings
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
Shooting the Past
The Street
Eddie McEvoy
The Sixth Commandment
Peter Farquhar
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self – Actor
Bodily Harm
Mitchel Greenfield
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
Perpetual Grace LTD
Donald DeLoash
Death Valley
John Chapel