Timothy Spall
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 (47)
Goodbye June
Wicked Little Letters
The Pale Blue Eye
The Last Bus
Grizzly II: Revenge
The Corrupted
Early Man
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Denial
The Love Punch
Mr. Turner
Upside Down
The Rise
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Alice in Wonderland
The King's Speech
Heartless
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Damned United
Desert Flower
From Time to Time
Appaloosa
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Enchanted
Death Defying Acts
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Last Samurai
Nicholas Nickleby
All or Nothing
Vanilla Sky
Rock Star
Intimacy
Chicken Run
Vatel
Immortality
Still Crazy
Hamlet
Secrets & Lies
Life Is Sweet
White Hunter, Black Heart
The Sheltering Sky
To Kill a Priest
