Timothy Spall
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Biography
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.
Known For
The One Show
The Graham Norton Show
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Parkinson
Performance
Wolf Hall
Top Gear
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Pebble Mill
One Life
The Danny Baker Show
Spender
The Hunger
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The One and Only Mike Leigh
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
Alice in Wonderland
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Chicken Run
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
The Cherry Orchard
Vanilla Sky
The Pale Blue Eye
The King's Speech
The Party
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Oliver Twist
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
The Love Punch
Body Contact
Home Sweet Home
Enchanted
The Syndicate
Secrets & Lies
Denial
Lucky Break
Love Bite
The Corrupted
The Brylcreem Boys
The Last Samurai
Nona
Timothy Spall: Back At Sea
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
The Damned United
Spencer
Dread Poets' Society
Cider with Rosie
Death Valley
All or Nothing
Mr. Turner
The Heist Before Christmas
Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
The Street
Timothy Spall: All at Sea
The Sixth Commandment
Cherished
Originals for BBC
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