Cast & creator
Timothy Spall
Best known for The Graham Norton Show, The One Show, The One Show
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.
Also known as: Tim Spall, Timothy Leonard Spall, Timotijs Leonards Spols, Timotijs Spals
140
film credits
59
television credits
195
1970–2026 · acting roles
6.4
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (199)
Showing 199 of 199 credits
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
The One Show
Self - Guest
2006The One Show
Self
2006
Play for Today
Gordon
1970Play for Today
Detective Sergeant Baxter
1970
Top Gear
Self
2002
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self – Actor
2022
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Peter Pettigrew
2004
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Wormtail
2005
Playhouse
Shorty
1974
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Peter Pettigrew
2011Film '72
Self
1971
Parkinson
Self
1998
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Peter Pettigrew
2009
Red Dwarf
Andy
1988
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Peter Pettigrew
2010Pebble Mill
Self
1991
Alice in Wonderland
Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
2010
Performance
Jimmy Beales
1991Performance
Chico
1991
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Ed Jacobson
2017
ScreenPlay
Francis Meeks
1986ScreenPlay
Derek
1986
Parkinson
Self - Guest
2004
The Hunger
Salesman
1997
The Last Samurai
Simon Graham
2003
The King's Speech
Winston Churchill
2010
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Cunningham - Masseur
1992
BBC2 Play of the Week
Wainwright
1977
Wolf Hall
Duke of Norfolk
2015
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
2016
Chicken Run
Nick (voice)
2000
Enchanted
Nathaniel
2007
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Porfiry
1988
Remembers…
Self
2022
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Beadle
2007
Vanilla Sky
Thomas Tipp
2001
Murder Most Horrid
Pathologist
1991
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Mr. Poe
2004
The Pale Blue Eye
Superintendent Thayer
2022
Early Man
Chief Bobnar (voice)
2018
Intimacy
Andy, Claire's husband
2001
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
Terence Hilbery
2026
Perpetual Grace LTD
Donald DeLoash
2019
Death Valley
John Chapel
2025Death Valley
Executive Producer
2025
The Street
Eddie McEvoy
2006
Hatton Garden
Terry Perkins
2019
Wicked Little Letters
Edward Swan
2024
Spender
Robert Cunningham
1991
10 Minute Tales
Man
2009
The Syndicate
2012
Goodbye June
Bernie
2025
Frank Stubbs Promotes
Frank Stubbs
1993
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Barry Taylor
1983
Blandings
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
2013
This Morning
Self - Guest
1988
Upside Down
Bob Boruchowitz
2012
Our Mutual Friend
Mr Venus
1998
British Film Forever
2007
Outside Edge
Kevin Costello
1994
Desert Flower
Terry Donaldson
2009
Death Defying Acts
Sugarman
2007
Oliver Twist
Fagin
2007
Secrets & Lies
Maurice Purley
1996
Rock Star
Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager
2001Stolen
Donald Caudell
1990
The Last Bus
Tom
2021The Last Bus
Executive Producer
2021One Life
2003
Summer of Rockets
Lord Arthur Wallington
2019
Mr. Turner
JMW Turner
2014
Room on the Broom
Dragon (voice)
2012
The Sixth Commandment
Peter Farquhar
2023
Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Cheeryble
2002
Rich Flu
Sebastian Snail Sr.
2024
Spencer
Major Alistair Gregorys
2021
Hamlet
Rosencrantz
1996
Northern Comfort
Edward
2023
The Sheltering Sky
Eric Lyle
1990
London 2012 Olympic Games
Self
2012
The Damned United
Peter Taylor
2009
All or Nothing
Phil
2002
Appaloosa
Phil Olson
2008
The Bride
Paulus
1985
Ginger & Rosa
Mark
2012
White Hunter, Black Heart
Hodkins
1990
The Party
Bill
2017
The Enfield Haunting
Maurice Grosse
2015A Room with a View
Mr Emerson
2008
S.O.S. Titanic
Jim (uncredited)
1980The Danny Baker Show
1994
Perfect Strangers
Irving
2001
Vatel
Gourville
2000
Topsy-Turvy
Richard Temple (The Mikado)
1999
Denial
David Irving
2016
Fungus the Bogeyman
Fungus
2015
Hamlet
Polonius
2026
From Time to Time
Boggis
2009
Quadrophenia
Projectionist
1979
Love's Labour's Lost
Armado
2000
Finding Your Feet
Charlie Glover
2017
Assassin's Bullet
Dr. Kahn
2012
The Corrupted
Clifford Cullen
2019
This Is Christmas
Ray
2022
Life Is Sweet
Aubrey
1991
Immortality
Inspector Healey
1998
Bodily Harm
Mitchel Greenfield
2002
The Love Punch
Jerry
2014Nice Day at the Office
1994
Wake Wood
Arthur
2011
To Kill a Priest
Igor
1988
The Rise
D I West
2012
Grizzly II: Revenge
Rob (uncredited)
2020
My House in Umbria
Quinty
2003
Still Crazy
David "Beano" Baggot
1998
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Albert Pierrepoint
2005
London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music
Winston Churchill
2012
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
Self / Nick
2015The Thing about Vince
Vince Skinner
2000
9 Kisses
Bartender
2014
Shooting the Past
Oswald Bates
1999
Oliver Twist
1st Constable
1982
The Grand Duke of Corsica
Alfred Rott
2021
The Changeover
Carmody Braque
2017
Dream Demon
Peck
1988
Dutch Girls
Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
1985
Gothic
Dr. Polidori
1987
Gettin' Square
Darren Barrington
2003
The Fattest Man in Britain
Georgie Godwin
2009
Comes a Bright Day
Charlie
2012
It Snows in Benidorm
Peter Riordan
2020
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Luis Agalla
2001
Jeremy Hardy Gives Good Sex
1995
Mrs Lowry & Son
L.S. Lowry
2019
A Room with a View
Mr Emerson
2007Nona
Chico
1991Boy
2012
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
2025
Lucky Break
Cliff
2001
Mysterious Creatures
Bill Ainscow
2006
Crusoe
Reverend Milne
1989
Home Sweet Home
Gordon
1982
Cider with Rosie
Laurie Lee (voice)
2015
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
Tommy Rag
2001
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Self
2002
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
Cunningham
2000
Heartless
George Morgan
2010
My Angel
Mr. Lambert
2011
The Clandestine Marriage
Sterling
1999
The Journey
Ian Paisley
2017
The Heist Before Christmas
Santa
2023
The Vanishing Army
Wainwright
1978
The Missionary
Parswell
1982
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Pig Robinson
1990The One and Only Mike Leigh
Self
2014
Bolan's Shoes
Jimmy
2023Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
Malcolm Harvey
2005
Jackboots on Whitehall
Churchill (voice)
2010
Roots
Jimmy Beales
1992
The Cherry Orchard
Epikhodov
1981
The Life Story of Baal
Lupu
1978
David Macaulay: Pyramid
Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)
1989
Remembrance
Douglas
1982
Rough for Theatre II
B
2000
A Crack in the Ice
Pte. Postnikov
1985Not Mozart: WAM! Limited
Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart
1991
Stanley, a Man of Variety
Stanley/Stanley's Father/Stanley's Mother/Tony Hancock/Peter Sellers aka Dr Boob/George Formby/James Finlayson/Max Wall/Alistair Sim/Margaret Rutherford/Frank Randle/Max Miller/Noel Coward/Igor
2016Stanley, a Man of Variety
Screenplay
2016
Love Bite
Sid
2012
Timothy Spall: All at Sea
Himself
2012
Broke
Francis Meeks
1991
Away
Joseph
2016
Neville's Island
Gordon
1998
The Swords
Salesman
1997
Back with the Boys Again
Himself
2013Say No to Strangers
Stranger
1981
Dread Poets' Society
Derek
1992
Timothy Spall: Back At Sea
Himself
2011
Reuniting the Rubins
Lennie Rubin
2011
Body Contact
Paul
1987Murdering Michael Malloy
Michael Malloy
Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
Himself
2010The Three Sisters
Andrei
1981
Teenage Tourettes Camp
Narrator
2006Fungus The Bogeyman
Fungus
2015
Cherished
Terry Cannings
2005
This Time Away
Nigel
2019
The Brylcreem Boys
Shorty
1979
A Cotswold Death
Detective Sergeant Baxter
1982
1871
Ramborde
1990
Journey's End
Lt. Trotter
1988Late in Summer
Executive Producer
Ivor the Invisible
Dad (voice)
2001
Sucker
The Professor
2015
Untitled 13
Gunrush
Doug Becket
2009