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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

1871

1990
as Ramborde

9 Kisses

2014
as Arm Wrestling Man #2

A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman

2015
as Himself

A Room with a View

2007
as Mr Emerson

Alice Through the Looking Glass

2016
as Bayard (voice)

Alice in Wonderland

2010
as The Bloodhound (voice)

All or Nothing

2002
as Phil

Appaloosa

2008
as Phil Olson

Assassin's Bullet

2012
as Dr. Kahn

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

1983
as Barry Taylor

Away

2016
as Joseph

Blandings

2013
as Lord Emsworth Clarence

Body Contact

1987
as Paul

Cherished

2005
as Terry Cannings

Chicken Run

2000
as Nick (voice)

Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages

2002
as Timothy Spall

Cider with Rosie

2015
as Laurie Lee (voice)

Comes a Bright Day

2012
as Charlie

Crusoe

1988
as Reverend Milne

David Macaulay: Pyramid

1988
as Kawab / Tomb Robber

Death Defying Acts

2007
as Sugarman

Denial

2016
as David Irving

Desert Flower

2009
as Terry Donaldson

Dream Demon

1988
as Peck

Dutch Girls

1985
as Lyndon

Early Man

2018
as Chief Bobnar (voice)

Enchanted

2007
as Nathaniel

Finding Your Feet

2017
as Charlie Glover

Frank Stubbs Promotes

1993

From Time to Time

2009
as Boggis

Fungus the Bogeyman (2015)

2015
as Fungus

Gettin' Square

2003
as Darren Barrington

Ginger & Rosa

2012
as Mark

Gothic

1986
as Dr. Polidori

Gunrush

2009
as Doug Becket

Hamlet

1996
as Rosencrantz

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

2010
as Peter Pettigrew

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

2011
as Peter Pettigrew

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

2005
as Peter Pettigrew

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

2009
as Peter Pettigrew

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

2004
as Peter Pettigrew

Heartless

2009
as George Morgan

Intimité

2001
as Andy

Ivor the Invisible

2001
as Dad (voice)

Jackboots on Whitehall

2010
as Churchill (voice)

Jamie's School Dinners

2005
as Narrator

Journey's End

1988
as Lt. Trotter

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

2004
as Mr. Poe

Life Is Sweet

1990
as Aubrey

Love Bite

2012
as Sid

Love's Labour's Lost

2000
as Armado

Lucky Break

2001
as Cliff

Mr. Turner

2014
as JMW Turner

Mrs. Lowry & Son

2019
as L.S. Lowry

My Angel

2011
as Mr. Lambert

My House in Umbria

2003
as Quinty

Mysterious Creatures

2006
as Bill Ainscow

Neville's Island

1998
as Gordon

Nice Day at the Office

1994
as Phil Bachelor

Nicholas Nickleby

2002
as Charles Cheeryble

Nieva en Benidorm

2020
as Peter Riordan

Oliver Twist

1982
as 1st Constable

Oliver Twist (2007)

2007
as Fagin

Our Mutual Friend

1998
as Mr. Venus

Outside Edge

1994
as Kevin Costello

Perfect Strangers (2001)

2001
as Irving

Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

2005
as Albert Pierrepoint

Poultry in Motion: The Making of 'Chicken Run'

2000
as Timothy Spall

Quadrophenia

1979
as Projectionist

Reuniting the Rubins

2011
as Lennie Rubin

Rock Star

2001
as Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager

Room on the Broom

2012
as Dragon (voice)

Rough for Theatre II

2000
as B

Say No to Strangers

1981

Secrets & Lies

1996
as Maurice Purley

Shooting The Past

1999
as Oswald Bates

Spencer

2021
as Major Alistair Gregory

Stanley a Man of Variety

2016
as Stanley

Still Crazy

1998
as David 'Beano' Baggot

Summer of Rockets

2019
as Lord Arthur Wallington

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

2007
as Beadle

Teenage Tourettes Camp

2006
as Narrator

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades

1999
as Cunningham

The Bride

1985
as Paulus

The Changeover

2017
as Carmody Braque

The Cherry Orchard

1981
as Epikhodov

The Clandestine Marriage

1999
as Sterling

The Corrupted

2019
as Clifford Cullen

The Damned United

2009
as Peter Taylor

The Enfield Haunting

2015
as Maurice Grosse

The Fattest Man in Britain

2009
as Georgie Godwin

The Heist Before Christmas

2023
as Santa

The Journey

2017
as Ian Paisley

The King's Speech

2010
as Winston Churchill

The Last Bus

2021
as Tom

The Last Samurai

2003
as Simon Graham

The Love Punch

2013
as Jerry

The Missionary

1982
as Parswell

The Obscure Life of the Grand Duke of Corsica

2021
as Alfred Rott

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

2001

The One and Only Mike Leigh

2014
as Himself

The Pale Blue Eye

2022
as Superintendent Thayer

The Party

2017
as Bill

The Rise

2012
as D I West

The Sheltering Sky

1990
as Eric Lyle

The Sixth Commandment

2023
as Peter Farquhar

The Street

2006
as Eddie McEvoy

The Syndicate

2012
as Bob

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

1990
as Pig Robinson

The Vanishing Army

1980
as Wainwright

The Wisdom of Crocodiles

1998
as Inspector Healey

This Time Away

2019
as Nigel

Timothy Spall: ...at Sea

2010
as Himself

To Kill a Priest

1988
as Igor

Topsy-Turvy

1999
as Richard Temple (The Mikado)

Tracey Ullman: A Class Act

1993

Upside Down

2012
as Bob Boruchowitz

Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise

2001
as Tommy Rag

Vanilla Sky

2001
as Thomas Tipp

Vatel

2000
as Gourville

Wake Wood

2011
as Arthur

White Hunter Black Heart

1990
as Hodkins

Wicked Little Letters

2024
as Edward Swan

Wolf Hall

2015
as Duke of Norfolk

Crew

Movie The Last Bus 2021

Guest Star

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