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.

KNOWN FOR

The Graham Norton Show
2014
The One Show
2009
Play for Today
1982
Top Gear
2005
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2015
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
Playhouse
1979
Parkinson
2002
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
195
Writing
1
Producing
3
2026
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
as Terence Hilbery
2026
Hamlet
as Polonius
2025
Goodbye June
as Bernie
2025
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
2025
Death Valley
as John Chapel
2025
The One Show
as Self
2024
Rich Flu
as Sebastian Snail Sr.
2024
Wicked Little Letters
as Edward Swan
2024
Wolf Hall
as Duke of Norfolk
2024
Remembers…
as Self
2023
Bolan's Shoes
as Jimmy
2023
Northern Comfort
as Edward
2023
The Heist Before Christmas
as Santa
2023
The Sixth Commandment
as Peter Farquhar
2023
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
as Self – Actor
2022
The Pale Blue Eye
as Superintendent Thayer
2022
This Is Christmas
as Ray
2021
Spencer
as Major Alistair Gregorys
2021
The Grand Duke of Corsica
as Alfred Rott
2021
The Last Bus
as Tom
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
2019
Perpetual Grace LTD
as Donald DeLoash
2019
Hatton Garden
as Terry Perkins
2019
Summer of Rockets
as Lord Arthur Wallington
2018
Early Man
as Chief Bobnar (voice)
2017
The Party
as Bill
2017
The Journey
as Ian Paisley
2017
Finding Your Feet
as Charlie Glover
2017
The Changeover
as Carmody Braque
2017
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
as Ed Jacobson
2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
2016
Away
as Joseph
2016
Denial
as David Irving
2016
Stanley, a Man of Variety
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
2015
Cider with Rosie
as Laurie Lee (voice)
2015
Fungus The Bogeyman
as Fungus
2015
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
as Self / Nick
2015
Sucker
as The Professor
2015
The Enfield Haunting
as Maurice Grosse
2015
Fungus the Bogeyman
as Fungus
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
The Love Punch
as Jerry
2014
Mr. Turner
as JMW Turner
2014
The One and Only Mike Leigh
as Self
2014
9 Kisses
as Bartender
2014
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2013
Back with the Boys Again
as Himself
2013
Blandings
as Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
2012
Upside Down
as Bob Boruchowitz
2012
Ginger & Rosa
as Mark
2012
Love Bite
as Sid
2012
The Rise
as D I West
2012
Room on the Broom
as Dragon (voice)
2012
Comes a Bright Day
as Charlie
2012
Assassin's Bullet
as Dr. Kahn
2012
Boy
2012
London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music
as Winston Churchill
2012
The Syndicate
2012
Timothy Spall: All at Sea
as Himself
2012
London 2012 Olympic Games
as Self
2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Peter Pettigrew
2011
Wake Wood
as Arthur
2011
Reuniting the Rubins
as Lennie Rubin
2011
My Angel
as Mr. Lambert
2011
Timothy Spall: Back At Sea
as Himself
2010
Alice in Wonderland
as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Peter Pettigrew
2010
Heartless
as George Morgan
2010
Jackboots on Whitehall
as Churchill (voice)
2010
The King's Speech
as Winston Churchill
2010
Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
as Himself
2009
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
as Peter Pettigrew
2009
The Damned United
as Peter Taylor
2009
Desert Flower
as Terry Donaldson
2009
The Fattest Man in Britain
as Georgie Godwin
2009
From Time to Time
as Boggis
2009
Gunrush
as Doug Becket
2009
The One Show
as Self - Guest
2009
10 Minute Tales
as Man
2008
Appaloosa
as Phil Olson
2008
This Morning
as Self - Guest
2008
A Room with a View
as Mr Emerson
2007
Enchanted
as Nathaniel
2007
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
as Beadle
2007
Death Defying Acts
as Sugarman
2007
A Room with a View
as Mr Emerson
2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
2007
Oliver Twist
as Fagin
2007
British Film Forever
2006
Teenage Tourettes Camp
as Narrator
2006
Mysterious Creatures
as Bill Ainscow
2006
One Life
2006
The Street
as Eddie McEvoy
2006
Parkinson
as Self - Guest
2005
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Wormtail
2005
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
as Albert Pierrepoint
2005
Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
as Malcolm Harvey
2005
Cherished
as Terry Cannings
2005
Top Gear
as Self
2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Peter Pettigrew
2004
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
as Mr. Poe
2003
The Last Samurai
as Simon Graham
2003
Gettin' Square
as Darren Barrington
2003
My House in Umbria
as Quinty
2002
All or Nothing
as Phil
2002
Nicholas Nickleby
as Charles Cheeryble
2002
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
as Self
2002
Bodily Harm
as Mitchel Greenfield
2002
Parkinson
as Self
2001
Vanilla Sky
as Thomas Tipp
2001
Intimacy
as Andy, Claire's husband
2001
Lucky Break
as Cliff
2001
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
as Luis Agalla
2001
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
as Tommy Rag
2001
Ivor the Invisible
as Dad (voice)
2001
Rock Star
as Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager
2001
Perfect Strangers
as Irving
2000
Chicken Run
as Nick (voice)
2000
Vatel
as Gourville
2000
Love's Labour's Lost
as Armado
2000
Rough for Theatre II
as B
2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
as Cunningham
2000
The Thing about Vince
as Vince Skinner
1999
Topsy-Turvy
as Richard Temple (The Mikado)
1999
The Clandestine Marriage
as Sterling
1999
Shooting the Past
as Oswald Bates
1998
Immortality
as Inspector Healey
1998
Still Crazy
as David "Beano" Baggot
1998
Neville's Island
as Gordon
1998
Our Mutual Friend
as Mr Venus
1997
The Swords
as Salesman
1997
The Hunger
as Salesman
1996
Secrets & Lies
as Maurice Purley
1996
Hamlet
as Rosencrantz
1996
Pebble Mill
as Self
1995
Jeremy Hardy Gives Good Sex
1994
Nice Day at the Office
1994
The Danny Baker Show
1994
Outside Edge
as Kevin Costello
1993
Spender
as Robert Cunningham
1993
Frank Stubbs Promotes
as Frank Stubbs
1992
Roots
as Jimmy Beales
1992
Dread Poets' Society
as Derek
1992
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
as Cunningham - Masseur
1992
Performance
as Jimmy Beales
1992
Red Dwarf
as Andy
1992
ScreenPlay
as Derek
1991
Life Is Sweet
as Aubrey
1991
Not Mozart: WAM! Limited
as Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart
1991
Broke
as Francis Meeks
1991
Nona
as Chico
1991
Performance
as Chico
1991
Murder Most Horrid
as Pathologist
1991
ScreenPlay
as Francis Meeks
1990
The Sheltering Sky
as Eric Lyle
1990
1871
as Ramborde
1990
White Hunter, Black Heart
as Hodkins
1990
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
as Pig Robinson
1990
Stolen
as Donald Caudell
1989
Crusoe
as Reverend Milne
1989
David Macaulay: Pyramid
as Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)
1988
To Kill a Priest
as Igor
1988
Dream Demon
as Peck
1988
Journey's End
as Lt. Trotter
1988
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
as Porfiry
1987
Gothic
as Dr. Polidori
1987
Body Contact
as Paul
1986
Film '72
as Self
1985
Dutch Girls
as Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
1985
The Bride
as Paulus
1985
A Crack in the Ice
as Pte. Postnikov
1983
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
as Barry Taylor
1982
Oliver Twist
as 1st Constable
1982
The Missionary
as Parswell
1982
Home Sweet Home
as Gordon
1982
Remembrance
as Douglas
1982
A Cotswold Death
as Detective Sergeant Baxter
1982
Play for Today
as Gordon
1982
Play for Today
as Detective Sergeant Baxter
1981
Say No to Strangers
as Stranger
1981
The Three Sisters
as Andrei
1981
The Cherry Orchard
as Epikhodov
1980
S.O.S. Titanic
as Jim (uncredited)
1979
Quadrophenia
as Projectionist
1979
The Brylcreem Boys
as Shorty
1979
Playhouse
as Shorty
1978
The Vanishing Army
as Wainwright
1978
The Life Story of Baal
as Lupu
1978
BBC2 Play of the Week
as Wainwright
Untitled 13
Murdering Michael Malloy
as Michael Malloy