
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

Wolf Hall

Top Gear

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

Performance

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

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

Vanilla Sky

The Cherry Orchard

The Pale Blue Eye

The Party

The King's Speech

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades

Oliver Twist

Enchanted

Body Contact

The Syndicate

Home Sweet Home

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

The Love Punch

The Corrupted

Lucky Break

Secrets & Lies

Denial

The Brylcreem Boys

Love Bite

The Last Samurai

Cider with Rosie

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

Nona

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

The Damned United

Spencer

Timothy Spall: Back At Sea

Dread Poets' Society

The Sixth Commandment

The Street

Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise

Timothy Spall: All at Sea

Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea

Mr. Turner

Cherished

All or Nothing

The Heist Before Christmas

Death Valley
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