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Timothy Spall

Acting
Known For

68 Years Old

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

Battersea, London, England, UK on 27th February 1957

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Pebble Mill
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The Graham Norton Show
Self
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Red Dwarf
Andy
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The Hunger
Salesman
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Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self – Actor
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Top Gear
Self
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Playhouse
Shorty
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Play for Today
Detective Sergeant Baxter
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Play for Today
Gordon
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Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
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Parkinson
Self
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Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Ed Jacobson
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The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
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The One Show
Self
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The One Show
Self - Guest
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Intimacy
Andy, Claire's husband
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BBC2 Play of the Week
Wainwright
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Wolf Hall
Duke of Norfolk
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Wormtail
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Spender
Robert Cunningham
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Peter Pettigrew
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Peter Pettigrew
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Jimmy Beales
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Peter Pettigrew
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Peter Pettigrew
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Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Barry Taylor
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One Life
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10 Minute Tales
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Murder Most Horrid
Pathologist
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Alice in Wonderland
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The Sixth Commandment
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Perpetual Grace LTD
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Our Mutual Friend
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Outside Edge
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The Street
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The Enfield Haunting
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The Syndicate
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The Last Samurai
Simon Graham
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Blandings
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
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Chicken Run
Nick (voice)
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
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Frank Stubbs
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British Film Forever
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Enchanted
Nathaniel
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Vanilla Sky
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Fungus the Bogeyman
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The King's Speech
Winston Churchill
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Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
Himself
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
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Oliver Twist
Fagin
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Rich Flu
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Timothy Spall: Back At Sea
Himself
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The Pale Blue Eye
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The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Porfiry
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Wicked Little Letters
Edward Swan
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Creating the World of Harry Potter
Self - 'Peter Pettigrew' and 'Wormtail'
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Hamlet
Rosencrantz
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Secrets & Lies
Maurice Purley
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The Danny Baker Show
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Early Man
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Rock Star
Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager
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Appaloosa
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Upside Down
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The Damned United
Peter Taylor
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Hatton Garden
Terry Perkins
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This Morning
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Quadrophenia
Projectionist
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The Party
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Desert Flower
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Love's Labour's Lost
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Nicholas Nickleby
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The Sheltering Sky
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The Love Punch
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The Bride
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Denial
David Irving
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Life Is Sweet
Aubrey
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The Heist Before Christmas
Santa
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Topsy-Turvy
Richard Temple (The Mikado)
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Summer of Rockets
Lord Arthur Wallington
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Mr. Turner
JMW Turner
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Perfect Strangers
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Bodily Harm
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Death Defying Acts
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Gothic
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White Hunter, Black Heart
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The Missionary
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London 2012 Olympic Games
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Finding Your Feet
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Ginger & Rosa
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This Time Away
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All or Nothing
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The Corrupted
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Immortality
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Crusoe
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S.O.S. Titanic
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The Changeover
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To Kill a Priest
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From Time to Time
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Room on the Broom
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Cider with Rosie
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Still Crazy
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Jackboots on Whitehall
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Wake Wood
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A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
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Nice Day at the Office
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Assassin's Bullet
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Lucky Break
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Mrs Lowry & Son
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Heartless
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Gettin' Square
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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
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Northern Comfort
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My House in Umbria
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9 Kisses
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Love Bite
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Dream Demon
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Grizzly II: Revenge
Rob (uncredited)
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Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
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Remembrance
Douglas
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
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David Macaulay: Pyramid
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A Room with a View
Mr Emerson
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The Journey
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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
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Oliver Twist
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My Angel
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Body Contact
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Reuniting the Rubins
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Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
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Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
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Gunrush
Doug Becket
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Bolan's Shoes
Jimmy
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Timothy Spall: All at Sea
Himself
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It Snows in Benidorm
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This Is Christmas
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Hamlet
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The Vanishing Army
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Comes a Bright Day
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Night and Day
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Dutch Girls
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The Fattest Man in Britain
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Chico
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Stanley, a Man of Variety
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The Swords
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A Cotswold Death
Detective Sergeant Baxter
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Broke
Francis Meeks
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Cherished
Terry Cannings
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The One and Only Mike Leigh
Self
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Back With The Boys Again
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The Clandestine Marriage
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Mysterious Creatures
Bill Ainscow
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Goodbye June
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Home Sweet Home
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Boy
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The Cherry Orchard
Epikhodov
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Dread Poets' Society
Derek
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The Brylcreem Boys
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Roots
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The Three Sisters
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Untitled 13
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The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
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Not Mozart: WAM! Limited
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Teenage Tourettes Camp
Narrator
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Neville's Island
Gordon
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Ivor the Invisible
Dad (voice)
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Say No to Strangers
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Rough for Theatre II
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