Timothy Spall
Birthday: 1957-02-27 | Place of Birth: Battersea, London, England, UKTimothy 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
Acting
Role
as Mr Hilbery
as Polonius
as Bernie
as John Chapel
as Nick (voice)
as Peter Pettigrew
as Duke of Norfolk
as Edward Swan
as Sebastian Snail Sr.
as Edward
as Jimmy
as Peter Farquhar
as Santa
as Ray
as Superintendent Thayer
as Tom
as Alfred Rott
as Major Alistair Gregorys
as Peter Riordan
as Clifford Cullen
as L.S. Lowry
as Lord Arthur Wallington
as Nigel
as Terry Perkins
as Bill
as Chief Bobnar (voice)
