Acting credits
172
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Timothy Spall
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 127Series: 45Crew credits: 3
TMDB ID: 9191
IMDb ID: nm0001758
Known for: Acting
Born: February 27, 1957
Age: 69
Place of birth: Battersea, London, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1970 - 2026
Years active: 57
Average TMDB rating: 6.51
Wikidata: Q287824
Also known as
Tim Spall • Timothy Leonard Spall • Timotijs Leonards Spols • Timotijs Spals
Other jobs
Executive Producer (2)Screenplay (1)
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Timothy Spall.
as Terence Hilbery
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
2026 • Movie
as Polonius
Hamlet
2026 • Movie
as Bernie
Goodbye June
2025 • Movie
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
2025 • Movie
as Sebastian Snail Sr.
Rich Flu
2024 • Movie
as Edward Swan
Wicked Little Letters
2024 • Movie
as Santa
The Heist Before Christmas
2023 • Movie
as Jimmy
Bolan's Shoes
2023 • Movie
as Edward
Northern Comfort
2023 • Movie
as Superintendent Thayer
The Pale Blue Eye
2022 • Movie
as Ray
This Is Christmas
2022 • Movie
as Major Alistair Gregorys
Spencer
2021 • Movie
as Alfred Rott
The Grand Duke Of Corsica
2021 • Movie
as Tom
The Last Bus
2021 • Movie
as Peter Riordan
It Snows in Benidorm
2020 • Movie
as Rob (uncredited)
Grizzly II: Revenge
2020 • Movie
as L.S. Lowry
Mrs Lowry & Son
2019 • Movie
as Clifford Cullen
The Corrupted
2019 • Movie
as Nigel
This Time Away
2019 • Movie
as Chief Bobnar (voice)
Early Man
2018 • Movie
as Charlie Glover
Finding Your Feet
2017 • Movie
as Carmody Braque
The Changeover
2017 • Movie
as Bill
The Party
2017 • Movie
as Ian Paisley
The Journey
2017 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Timothy Spall.
as John Chapel • 12 eps
Death Valley
2025 • Series
as Peter Farquhar • 4 eps
The Sixth Commandment
2023 • Series
as Self – Actor • 1 eps
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Remembers…
2022 • Series
as Donald DeLoash • 5 eps
Perpetual Grace LTD
2019 • Series
as Lord Arthur Wallington • 6 eps
Summer of Rockets
2019 • Series
as Terry Perkins • 4 eps
Hatton Garden
2019 • Series
as Ed Jacobson • 1 eps
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
2017 • Series
as Fungus • 3 eps
Fungus the Bogeyman
2015 • Series
as Maurice Grosse • 3 eps
The Enfield Haunting
2015 • Series
as Duke of Norfolk • 5 eps
Wolf Hall
2015 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 • Series
as Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth • 13 eps
Blandings
2013 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
London 2012 Olympic Games
2012 • Series
5 eps
The Syndicate
2012 • Series
as Himself • 4 eps
Timothy Spall: All at Sea
2012 • Series
as Himself • 4 eps
Timothy Spall: Back At Sea
2011 • Series
as Himself • 3 eps
Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
2010 • Series
as Man • 1 eps
10 Minute Tales
2009 • Series
as Fagin • 5 eps
Oliver Twist
2007 • Series
1 eps
British Film Forever
2007 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
The Graham Norton Show
2007 • Series
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
The One Show
2006 • Series
as Eddie McEvoy • 18 eps
The Street
2006 • Series