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Timothy Spall

Short, roly-poly, pudding-faced Timothy Leonard Spall was an award-winning classical character actor and sometime lead who was born on February 27, 1957, and raised in London. The son of blue-collar parents, Joseph L. Spall, a postal worker, and Sylvia R. (Leonard), a hairdresser, his interest in acting happened early and Spall auditioned and earned a spot with the National Youth Theatre. The young actor showed great promise at RADA where he portrayed the title roles in "Macbeth" and "Othello."

English
Filmography

Enchanted

2007
as Nathaniel

Chicken Run

2000
as Nick (voice)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

2007
as Beadle

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

2011
as Peter Pettigrew

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

2010
as Peter Pettigrew

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

2005
as Peter Pettigrew

Alice in Wonderland

2010
as The Bloodhound (voice)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

2004
as Peter Pettigrew

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

2009
as Peter Pettigrew

Spencer

2021
as Major Alistair Gregory

The Last Samurai

2003
as Simon Graham

Alice Through the Looking Glass

2016
as Bayard (voice)

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

2004
as Mr. Poe

Upside Down

2012
as Bob Boruchowitz

The King's Speech

2010
as Winston Churchill

The Pale Blue Eye

2022
as Superintendent Thayer

Vanilla Sky

2001
as Thomas Tipp

Wicked Little Letters

2024
as Edward Swan

Wolf Hall

2015
as Duke of Norfolk

The Enfield Haunting

2015
as Maurice Grosse

Reuniting the Rubins

2011
as Lennie Rubin

Lucky Break

2001
as Cliff

The Vanishing Army

1980
as Wainwright

Gothic

1986
as Dr. Polidori

Frank Stubbs Promotes

1993

Rough for Theatre II

2000
as B

Tracey Ullman: A Class Act

1993

Heartless

2009
as George Morgan

Ginger & Rosa

2012
as Mark

Mrs. Lowry & Son

2019
as L.S. Lowry

9 Kisses

2014
as Arm Wrestling Man #2

Nicholas Nickleby

2002
as Charles Cheeryble

The Clandestine Marriage

1999
as Sterling

Wake Wood

2011
as Arthur

A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman

2015
as Himself

Finding Your Feet

2017
as Charlie Glover

Life Is Sweet

1990
as Aubrey

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

1990
as Pig Robinson

The Last Bus

2021
as Tom

Quadrophenia

1979
as Projectionist

Say No to Strangers

1981

The Missionary

1982
as Parswell

Mysterious Creatures

2006
as Bill Ainscow

The Journey

2017
as Ian Paisley

All or Nothing

2002
as Phil

1871

1990
as Ramborde

Fungus the Bogeyman (2015)

2015
as Fungus

The Love Punch

2013
as Jerry

Jackboots on Whitehall

2010
as Churchill (voice)

Oliver Twist

1982
as 1st Constable

Timothy Spall: ...at Sea

2010
as Himself

Vatel

2000
as Gourville

The Sixth Commandment

2023
as Peter Farquhar

Cherished

2005
as Terry Cannings

Jamie's School Dinners

2005
as Narrator

Summer of Rockets

2019
as Lord Arthur Wallington

Blandings

2013
as Lord Emsworth Clarence

Death Defying Acts

2007
as Sugarman

Gunrush

2009
as Doug Becket

This Time Away

2019
as Nigel

Crusoe

1988
as Reverend Milne

The Fattest Man in Britain

2009
as Georgie Godwin

The One and Only Mike Leigh

2014
as Himself

From Time to Time

2009
as Boggis

Dutch Girls

1985
as Lyndon

Our Mutual Friend

1998
as Mr. Venus

Secrets & Lies

1996
as Maurice Purley

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

2001

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades

1999
as Cunningham

To Kill a Priest

1988
as Igor

Room on the Broom

2012
as Dragon (voice)

Outside Edge

1994
as Kevin Costello

Zone(s) de turbulence

2023
as Edward

Denial

2016
as David Irving

Rock Star

2001
as Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager

White Hunter Black Heart

1990
as Hodkins

Journey's End

1988
as Lt. Trotter

The Wisdom of Crocodiles

1998
as Inspector Healey

Early Man

2018
as Chief Bobnar (voice)

The Cherry Orchard

1981
as Epikhodov

Away

2016
as Joseph

Poultry in Motion: The Making of 'Chicken Run'

2000
as Timothy Spall

Desert Flower

2009
as Terry Donaldson

Dream Demon

1988
as Peck

The Heist Before Christmas

2023
as Santa

Mr. Turner

2014
as JMW Turner

David Macaulay: Pyramid

1988
as Kawab / Tomb Robber

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

1983
as Barry Taylor

Nieva en Benidorm

2020
as Peter Riordan

Love's Labour's Lost

2000
as Armado

Gettin' Square

2003
as Darren Barrington

Teenage Tourettes Camp

2006
as Narrator

Love Bite

2012
as Sid

Nice Day at the Office

1994
as Phil Bachelor

The Obscure Life of the Grand Duke of Corsica

2021
as Alfred Rott

Still Crazy

1998
as David 'Beano' Baggot

The Party

2017
as Bill

Body Contact

1987
as Paul

Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages

2002
as Timothy Spall

Perfect Strangers (2001)

2001
as Irving

My Angel

2011
as Mr. Lambert

Oliver Twist (2007)

2007
as Fagin

The Street

2006
as Eddie McEvoy

Hamlet

1996
as Rosencrantz

Ivor the Invisible

2001
as Dad (voice)

A Room with a View

2007
as Mr Emerson

Neville's Island

1998
as Gordon

Comes a Bright Day

2012
as Charlie

My House in Umbria

2003
as Quinty

Stanley a Man of Variety

2016
as Stanley

Shooting The Past

1999
as Oswald Bates

The Syndicate

2012
as Bob

Topsy-Turvy

1999
as Richard Temple (The Mikado)

Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

2005
as Albert Pierrepoint

Cider with Rosie

2015
as Laurie Lee (voice)

The Changeover

2017
as Carmody Braque

Intimité

2001
as Andy

The Bride

1985
as Paulus

Appaloosa

2008
as Phil Olson

The Sheltering Sky

1990
as Eric Lyle

The Corrupted

2019
as Clifford Cullen

Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise

2001
as Tommy Rag

The Damned United

2009
as Peter Taylor

Assassin's Bullet

2012
as Dr. Kahn

The Rise

2012
as D I West

Death Valley (2024)

as John Chapel

Crew

Movie The Last Bus 2021

Guest Star

Episode Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Episode 28 		2023
Episode Top Gear
Episode 11 		2005
Episode Parkinson
Noel Edmonds, Thandie Newton, Timothy Spall, Neil Diamond 		2006
Episode The Graham Norton Show
Episode 5 		2014
Episode Sinbad
Old Man of the Sea 		2012
Episode Red Dwarf
Back to Reality 		1992
Episode The Hunger
The Swords 		1997
Episode Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Home Thoughts from Abroad 		1983
Episode Performance
Nona 		1991
Episode Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
The Commuter 		2017
Episode Play for Today
Home Sweet Home 		1982