Timothy Spall
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: February 27, 1957
Place of Birth: Battersea, London, England, UK
Known For
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
This groundbreaking documentary unlocks the hidden psychology of J.M.W. Turner through his 37,000 private sketches, drawings, and watercolours – an extraordinary archive that reveals the man behind the masterpieces. For the first time on television, these pages – Including erotic sketches previously thought to have been destroyed – are used as a window into Turner’s inner world, exposing his private thoughts, creative obsessions and emotional life. Rarely writing about himself, Turner left behind few clues to his personality. But in his sketchbooks, his restless imagination and vulnerabilities come vividly to life. They guide viewers through Turner’s life and art, revealing how his 37,000 sketches not only chart his creative evolution but also provide an unprecedented psychological portrait of a man both visionary and vulnerable.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.
Red Dwarf
The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts into hilarity and even turning back time. But the term also brings danger: soul-sucking Dementors hover over the school, an ally of the accursed He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named lurks within the castle walls, and fearsome wizard Sirius Black escapes Azkaban. And Harry will confront them all.
Mysterious Creatures
Feature-length ITV drama based on real events. Bill and Wendy Ainscow (Timothy Spall and Brenda Blethyn) are a middle class, middle-aged Birmingham couple locked in a deeply dysfunctional relationship with their 32-year-old daughter Lisa (Rebekah Staton). In a culmination of years spent unsuccessfully trying to obtain a diagnosis and get state help to deal with with Lisa's condition - which eventually turns out to be Asperger's syndrome - Bill and Wendy are ultimately driven to desperate measures with tragic consequences.
Outside Edge
Comedy-drama series starring Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Robert Daws, and Josie Lawrence about two couples united only by the fact that they play for a Sunday League cricket team.
Timothy Spall: Back At Sea
Untrained mariner Timothy Spall has spent a fortune on technology for his new challenge - the unpredictable Irish Sea - as he and his wife continue their mini-odyssey around Britain
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to Germany to work on a site in Dusseldorf. We follow their trials and tribulations of working away from home and away from the women they left behind.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the Triwizard Tournament. But since Harry never submitted his name for the Tournament, who did? Now Harry must confront a deadly dragon, fierce water demons and an enchanted maze only to find himself in the cruel grasp of He Who Must Not Be Named.
Our Mutual Friend
After his father's will stipulates he must marry Bella Wilfer to inherit his fortune, John Harmon fakes his death to avoid the marriage and the threats on his life. He returns as John Rokesmith and becomes the secretary for the Boffins, who inherit Harmon's estate following his alleged death.
Filmography
as Polonius
as Bernie
as John Chapel
as Sebastian Snail Sr.
as Edward Swan
as Santa
as Jimmy
as Edward
as Peter Farquhar
as Superintendent Thayer
as Ray
as Self – Actor
as Major Alistair Gregorys
as Alfred Rott
as Tom
as Peter Riordan
as Rob (uncredited)
as L.S. Lowry
as Donald DeLoash
as Lord Arthur Wallington
as Terry Perkins
as Clifford Cullen
as Nigel
as Chief Bobnar (voice)
as Charlie Glover
as Carmody Braque
as Ed Jacobson
as Bill
as Ian Paisley
as 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
as David Irving
as Joseph
as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
as Fungus
as Self / Nick
as Laurie Lee (voice)
as The Professor
as Maurice Grosse
as Duke of Norfolk
as JMW Turner
as Jerry
as Himself
as Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
as Dragon (voice)
as Sid
as Self
as Mark
as Bob Boruchowitz
as D I West
as Dr. Kahn
as Himself
as Charlie
as Mr. Lambert
as Lennie Rubin
as Himself
as Peter Pettigrew
as Arthur
as Winston Churchill
as Peter Pettigrew
as Churchill (voice)
as George Morgan
as Himself
as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
as Man
as Georgie Godwin
as Boggis
as Terry Donaldson
as Doug Becket
as Peter Pettigrew
as Peter Taylor
as Phil Olson
as Fagin
as Nathaniel
as Mr Emerson
as Sugarman
as Himself
as Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
as Self
as Bill Ainscow
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Eddie McEvoy
as Narrator
as Albert Pierrepoint
as Wormtail
as Terry Cannings
as Peter Pettigrew
as Simon Graham
as Darren Barrington
as Quinty
as Charles Cheeryble
as Self
as Phil
as Mitchel Greenfield
as Thomas Tipp
as Tommy Rag
as Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager
as Cliff
as Irving
as Luis Agalla
as Andy, Claire's husband
as Nick (voice)
as Gourville
as Armado
as Richard Temple (The Mikado)
as Sterling
as Oswald Bates
as Inspector Healey
as David "Beano" Baggot
as Mr Venus
as Self
as Gordon
as Salesman
as Salesman
as Rosencrantz
as Maurice Purley
as Frank Stubbs
as Jimmy Beales
as Derek
as Cunningham - Masseur
as Pathologist
as Jimmy Beales
as Chico
as Francis Meeks
as Robert Cunningham
as Pig Robinson
as Aubrey
as Eric Lyle
as Ramborde
as Hodkins
as Reverend Milne
as Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)
as Peck
as Self - Guest
as Igor
as Andy
as Porfiry
as Lt. Trotter
as Paul
as Dr. Polidori
as Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
as Paulus
as Pte. Postnikov
as Barry Taylor
as Parswell
as Douglas
as 1st Constable
as Gordon
as Detective Sergeant Baxter
as Epikhodov
as Jim (uncredited)
as Shorty
as Projectionist
as Wainwright
as Lupu
as Wainwright
as Shorty
as Gordon
as Detective Sergeant Baxter