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.
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
Character:Mr Hilbery
Release Date:14/05/2026
Hamlet
Character:Polonius
Release Date:06/02/2026
Goodbye June
Character:Bernie
Release Date:12/12/2025
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
Character:
Release Date:19/11/2025
Rich Flu
Character:Sebastian Snail Sr.
Release Date:12/12/2024
Wicked Little Letters
Character:Edward Swan
Release Date:23/02/2024
The Heist Before Christmas
Character:Santa
Release Date:24/12/2023
Bolan's Shoes
Character:Jimmy
Release Date:15/09/2023
Northern Comfort
Character:Edward
Release Date:09/08/2023
The Pale Blue Eye
Character:Superintendent Thayer
Release Date:22/12/2022
This Is Christmas
Character:Ray
Release Date:04/12/2022
Spencer
Character:Major Alistair Gregorys
Release Date:04/11/2021
The Grand Duke Of Corsica
Character:Alfred Rott
Release Date:15/10/2021
The Last Bus
Character:Tom
Release Date:18/06/2021
It Snows in Benidorm
Character:Peter Riordan
Release Date:11/12/2020
Grizzly II: Revenge
Character:Rob (uncredited)
Release Date:17/02/2020
Mrs Lowry & Son
Character:L.S. Lowry
Release Date:30/08/2019
The Corrupted
Character:Clifford Cullen
Release Date:10/05/2019
This Time Away
Character:Nigel
Release Date:30/03/2019
Early Man
Character:Chief Bobnar (voice)
Release Date:26/01/2018
Finding Your Feet
Character:Charlie Glover
Release Date:26/12/2017
The Changeover
Character:Carmody Braque
Release Date:28/09/2017
The Party
Character:Bill
Release Date:27/07/2017
The Journey
Character:Ian Paisley
Release Date:30/03/2017
Stanley, a Man of Variety
Character: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
Release Date:07/10/2016
Denial
Character:David Irving
Release Date:30/09/2016
Away
Character:Joseph
Release Date:22/06/2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Character:Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
Release Date:25/05/2016
Fungus The Bogeyman
Character:Fungus
Release Date:27/12/2015
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
Character:Self / Nick
Release Date:26/12/2015
Cider with Rosie
Character:Laurie Lee (voice)
Release Date:27/09/2015
Sucker
Character:The Professor
Release Date:15/08/2015
The One and Only Mike Leigh
Character:Self
Release Date:24/11/2014
Mr. Turner
Character:JMW Turner
Release Date:31/10/2014
The Love Punch
Character:Jerry
Release Date:13/01/2014
Back with the Boys Again
Character:Himself
Release Date:01/12/2013
Room on the Broom
Character:Dragon (voice)
Release Date:25/12/2012
Love Bite
Character:Sid
Release Date:09/11/2012
Ginger & Rosa
Character:Mark
Release Date:18/10/2012
Upside Down
Character:Bob Boruchowitz
Release Date:27/09/2012
Wasteland
Character:D I West
Release Date:09/09/2012
Assassin's Bullet
Character:Dr. Kahn
Release Date:01/08/2012
Boy
Character:
Release Date:23/03/2012
Comes a Bright Day
Character:Charlie
Release Date:12/02/2012
My Angel
Character:Mr. Lambert
Release Date:09/12/2011
Reuniting the Rubins
Character:Lennie Rubin
Release Date:21/10/2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Character:Peter Pettigrew
Release Date:12/07/2011
Wake Wood
Character:Arthur
Release Date:25/03/2011
The King's Speech
Character:Winston Churchill
Release Date:26/11/2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Character:Peter Pettigrew
Release Date:17/11/2010
Jackboots on Whitehall
Character:Churchill (voice)
Release Date:08/10/2010
Heartless
Character:George Morgan
Release Date:21/05/2010
Alice in Wonderland
Character:Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
Release Date:03/03/2010
The Fattest Man in Britain
Character:Georgie Godwin
Release Date:20/12/2009
From Time to Time
Character:Boggis
Release Date:15/10/2009
Desert Flower
Character:Terry Donaldson
Release Date:24/09/2009
Gunrush
Character:Doug Becket
Release Date:22/08/2009
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Character:Peter Pettigrew
Release Date:15/07/2009
The Damned United
Character:Peter Taylor
Release Date:27/03/2009
Appaloosa
Character:Phil Olson
Release Date:19/09/2008
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Character:Beadle
Release Date:21/12/2007
Enchanted
Character:Nathaniel
Release Date:20/11/2007
A Room with a View
Character:Mr Emerson
Release Date:04/11/2007
Death Defying Acts
Character:Sugarman
Release Date:13/09/2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Character:Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
Release Date:08/07/2007
Mysterious Creatures
Character:Bill Ainscow
Release Date:29/10/2006
Teenage Tourettes Camp
Character:Narrator
Release Date:02/01/2006
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Character:Albert Pierrepoint
Release Date:07/12/2005
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Character:Wormtail
Release Date:16/11/2005
Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
Character:Malcolm Harvey
Release Date:26/03/2005
Cherished
Character:Terry Cannings
Release Date:22/02/2005
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Character:Mr. Poe
Release Date:16/12/2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Character:Peter Pettigrew
Release Date:31/05/2004
The Last Samurai
Character:Simon Graham
Release Date:05/12/2003
Gettin' Square
Character:Darren Barrington
Release Date:09/10/2003
My House in Umbria
Character:Quinty
Release Date:25/05/2003
Nicholas Nickleby
Character:Charles Cheeryble
Release Date:27/12/2002
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Character:Self
Release Date:07/11/2002
All or Nothing
Character:Phil
Release Date:18/10/2002
Ivor the Invisible
Character:Dad (voice)
Release Date:24/12/2001
Vanilla Sky
Character:Thomas Tipp
Release Date:14/12/2001
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
Character:Tommy Rag
Release Date:14/09/2001
Rock Star
Character:Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager
Release Date:04/09/2001
Lucky Break
Character:Cliff
Release Date:24/08/2001
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Character:Luis Agalla
Release Date:07/03/2001
Intimacy
Character:Andy, Claire's husband
Release Date:20/01/2001
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
Character:Cunningham
Release Date:13/07/2000
Chicken Run
Character:Nick (voice)
Release Date:23/06/2000
Vatel
Character:Gourville
Release Date:01/05/2000
Love's Labour's Lost
Character:Armado
Release Date:31/03/2000
Rough for Theatre II
Character:B
Release Date:01/01/2000
Topsy-Turvy
Character:Richard Temple (The Mikado)
Release Date:15/12/1999
The Clandestine Marriage
Character:Sterling
Release Date:12/11/1999
Immortality
Character:Inspector Healey
Release Date:27/11/1998
Still Crazy
Character:David "Beano" Baggot
Release Date:30/10/1998
Neville's Island
Character:Gordon
Release Date:01/01/1998
The Swords
Character:Salesman
Release Date:20/07/1997
Hamlet
Character:Rosencrantz
Release Date:25/12/1996
Secrets & Lies
Character:Maurice Purley
Release Date:24/05/1996
Roots
Character:Jimmy Beales
Release Date:28/11/1992
Dread Poets' Society
Character:Derek
Release Date:23/09/1992
Not Mozart: WAM! Limited
Character:Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart
Release Date:03/11/1991
Nona
Character:Chico
Release Date:19/10/1991
Broke
Character:Francis Meeks
Release Date:10/07/1991
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Character:Pig Robinson
Release Date:26/12/1990
Life Is Sweet
Character:Aubrey
Release Date:15/11/1990
The Sheltering Sky
Character:Eric Lyle
Release Date:25/10/1990
1871
Character:Ramborde
Release Date:09/09/1990
White Hunter, Black Heart
Character:Hodkins
Release Date:16/05/1990
David Macaulay: Pyramid
Character:Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)
Release Date:04/01/1989
Dream Demon
Character:Peck
Release Date:06/10/1988
To Kill a Priest
Character:Igor
Release Date:07/09/1988
Crusoe
Character:Reverend Milne
Release Date:30/06/1988
Journey's End
Character:Lt. Trotter
Release Date:01/01/1988
Body Contact
Character:Paul
Release Date:06/12/1987
Gothic
Character:Dr. Polidori
Release Date:27/02/1987
Dutch Girls
Character:Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
Release Date:18/10/1985
The Bride
Character:Paulus
Release Date:16/08/1985
A Crack in the Ice
Character:Pte. Postnikov
Release Date:06/08/1985
The Missionary
Character:Parswell
Release Date:02/11/1982
Remembrance
Character:Douglas
Release Date:01/10/1982
Oliver Twist
Character:1st Constable
Release Date:23/03/1982
Home Sweet Home
Character:Gordon
Release Date:16/03/1982
A Cotswold Death
Character:Detective Sergeant Baxter
Release Date:12/01/1982
The Three Sisters
Character:Andrei
Release Date:29/12/1981
The Cherry Orchard
Character:Epikhodov
Release Date:13/10/1981
Say No to Strangers
Character:Stranger
Release Date:01/01/1981
S.O.S. Titanic
Character:Jim (uncredited)
Release Date:29/02/1980
The Brylcreem Boys
Character:Shorty
Release Date:21/11/1979
Quadrophenia
Character:Projectionist
Release Date:14/09/1979
The Vanishing Army
Character:Wainwright
Release Date:29/11/1978
The Life Story of Baal
Character:Lupu
Release Date:21/11/1978
Television Appearances
Death Valley
Character:John Chapel
The Sixth Commandment
Character:Peter Farquhar
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Character:Self – Actor
Perpetual Grace LTD
Character:Donald DeLoash
Summer of Rockets
Character:Lord Arthur Wallington
Hatton Garden
Character:Terry Perkins
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Character:Ed Jacobson
Fungus the Bogeyman
Character:Fungus
The Enfield Haunting
Character:Maurice Grosse
Wolf Hall
Character:Duke of Norfolk
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Character:Self
Blandings
Character:Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
London 2012 Olympic Games
Character:Self
The Syndicate
Character:
Timothy Spall: All at Sea
Character:Himself
Timothy Spall: Back At Sea
Character:Himself
Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
Character:Himself
10 Minute Tales
Character:
Oliver Twist
Character:Fagin
British Film Forever
Character:Himself
The Graham Norton Show
Character:Self
The One Show
Character:Self - Guest
The One Show
Character:Self
The Street
Character:Eddie McEvoy
One Life
Character:
Top Gear
Character:Self
Bodily Harm
Character:Mitchel Greenfield
Perfect Strangers
Character:Irving
The Thing about Vince
Character:Vince skinner
Shooting the Past
Character:Oswald Bates
Our Mutual Friend
Character:Mr Venus
Parkinson
Character:Self
The Hunger
Character:Salesman
Nice Day at the Office
Character:
The Danny Baker Show
Character:
Outside Edge
Character:
Frank Stubbs Promotes
Character:Frank Stubbs
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Character:Cunningham - Masseur
Murder Most Horrid
Character:Pathologist
Pebble Mill
Character:Self
Performance
Character:Jimmy Beales
Performance
Character:Chico
Spender
Character:Robert Cunningham
This Morning
Character:Self - Guest
Red Dwarf
Character:Andy
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Character:Porfiry
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Character:Barry Taylor
BBC2 Play of the Week
Character:Wainwright
Playhouse
Character:Shorty
Play for Today
Character:Gordon
Play for Today
Character:Detective Sergeant Baxter
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