
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 Graham Norton Show

The One 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

Creating the World of Harry Potter

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

A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman

The One and Only Mike Leigh

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Alice in Wonderland

Chicken Run

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

Vanilla Sky

The Cherry Orchard

The Pale Blue Eye

The King's Speech

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Home Sweet Home

The Love Punch

Oliver Twist

Enchanted

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades

Body Contact

The Syndicate

Spencer

Denial

Secrets & Lies

Love Bite

The Last Samurai

The Brylcreem Boys

Lucky Break

The Corrupted

Nona

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

Dread Poets' Society

The Damned United

Timothy Spall: Back At Sea

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

Cider with Rosie

The Sixth Commandment

The Heist Before Christmas

The Street

Death Valley

All or Nothing

Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise

The Party

Timothy Spall: All at Sea

Cherished

Mr. Turner

Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
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