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.
134 movies · 52 shows
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
2026·6.0
Hamlet
2026·5.7
Goodbye June
2025·6.6
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
2025·9.0
Rich Flu
2024·5.4
Wicked Little Letters
2024·6.9
The Heist Before Christmas
2023·4.9
Bolan's Shoes
2023·6.0
Northern Comfort
2023·5.4
The Pale Blue Eye
2022·6.8
This Is Christmas
2022·7.1
Spencer
2021·6.7
The Grand Duke Of Corsica
2021·3.7
The Last Bus
2021·6.5
It Snows in Benidorm
2020·5.6
Grizzly II: Revenge
2020·3.2
Mrs Lowry & Son
2019·6.4
The Corrupted
2019·6.1
This Time Away
2019·7.1
Early Man
2018·6.1
Finding Your Feet
2017·7.0
The Changeover
2017·5.6
The Party
2017·6.3
The Journey
2017·6.3
Stanley, a Man of Variety
2016·5.5
Denial
2016·6.8
Away
2016·6.2
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016·6.6
Fungus The Bogeyman
2015·2.5
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
2015·7.1
Cider with Rosie
2015·5.4
Sucker
2015·5.3
The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014·9.0
Mr. Turner
2014·6.5
9 Kisses
2014·5.5
The Love Punch
2014·6.0
Back with the Boys Again
2013·0.0
Room on the Broom
2012·6.6
Love Bite
2012·5.3
Ginger & Rosa
2012·6.0
Upside Down
2012·6.3
The Rise
2012·6.6
London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music
2012·6.9
Assassin's Bullet
2012·3.9
Boy
2012·6.9
Comes a Bright Day
2012·5.5
My Angel
2011·4.0
Reuniting the Rubins
2011·5.4
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011·8.1
Wake Wood
2011·5.6
The King's Speech
2010·7.7
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010·7.7
Jackboots on Whitehall
2010·4.9
Heartless
2010·5.8
Alice in Wonderland
2010·6.6
The Fattest Man in Britain
2009·5.9
From Time to Time
2009·6.3
Desert Flower
2009·7.6
Gunrush
2009·6.0
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009·7.7
The Damned United
2009·7.2
Appaloosa
2008·6.6
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007·7.2
Enchanted
2007·6.8
A Room with a View
2007·5.4
Death Defying Acts
2007·5.9
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007·7.7
Mysterious Creatures
2006·8.0
Teenage Tourettes Camp
2006·7.5
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
2005·7.1
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005·7.8
Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
2005·7.6
Cherished
2005·8.0
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004·6.8
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004·8.0
The Last Samurai
2003·7.6
Gettin' Square
2003·6.4
My House in Umbria
2003·6.1
Nicholas Nickleby
2002·6.9
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
2002·4.7
All or Nothing
2002·7.1
Ivor the Invisible
2001·7.0
Vanilla Sky
2001·6.8
Rock Star
2001·6.7
Lucky Break
2001·6.2
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
2001·5.2
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001·6.7
Intimacy
2001·6.2
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
2000·5.5
Chicken Run
2000·6.8
Vatel
2000·6.1
Love's Labour's Lost
2000·5.5
Rough for Theatre II
2000·5.8
Topsy-Turvy
1999·6.6
The Clandestine Marriage
1999·7.0
Immortality
1998·5.8
Still Crazy
1998·6.8
Neville's Island
1998·6.3
The Swords
1997·0.0
Hamlet
1996·7.3
Secrets & Lies
1996·7.6
Roots
1992·0.0
Dread Poets' Society
1992·0.0
Not Mozart: WAM! Limited
1991·0.0
Nona
1991·8.0
Broke
1991·9.0
Life Is Sweet
1991·7.0
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990·0.0
The Sheltering Sky
1990·6.5
1871
1990·4.8
White Hunter, Black Heart
1990·6.4
Crusoe
1989·5.9
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989·0.0
Dream Demon
1988·5.8
To Kill a Priest
1988·6.1
Journey's End
1988·8.0
Body Contact
1987·5.6
Gothic
1987·5.7
Dutch Girls
1985·4.1
The Bride
1985·5.4
A Crack in the Ice
1985·0.0
The Missionary
1982·5.6
Remembrance
1982·4.5
Oliver Twist
1982·6.7
Home Sweet Home
1982·6.3
A Cotswold Death
1982·7.0
The Three Sisters
1981·8.0
The Cherry Orchard
1981·7.0
Say No to Strangers
1981·7.0
S.O.S. Titanic
1980·6.0
The Brylcreem Boys
1979·0.0
Quadrophenia
1979·7.0
The Vanishing Army
1978·0.0
The Life Story of Baal
1978·10.0