Acting credits
173
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Timothy Spall
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 127Series: 46Crew 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: 6.52
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
Movie credits linked with Timothy Spall.
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
as Terence Hilbery
2026 Movie
Hamlet
as Polonius
2026 Movie
Goodbye June
as Bernie
2025 Movie
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
2025 Movie
Rich Flu
as Sebastian Snail Sr.
2024 Movie
Wicked Little Letters
as Edward Swan
2024 Movie
The Heist Before Christmas
as Santa
2023 Movie
Bolan's Shoes
as Jimmy
2023 Movie
Northern Comfort
as Edward
2023 Movie
The Pale Blue Eye
as Superintendent Thayer
2022 Movie
This Is Christmas
as Ray
2022 Movie
Spencer
as Major Alistair Gregorys
2021 Movie
The Grand Duke of Corsica
as Alfred Rott
2021 Movie
The Last Bus
as Tom
2021 Movie
It Snows in Benidorm
as Peter Riordan
2020 Movie
Grizzly II: Revenge
as Rob (uncredited)
2020 Movie
Mrs Lowry & Son
as L.S. Lowry
2019 Movie
The Corrupted
as Clifford Cullen
2019 Movie
This Time Away
as Nigel
2019 Movie
Early Man
as Chief Bobnar (voice)
2018 Movie
Finding Your Feet
as Charlie Glover
2017 Movie
The Changeover
as Carmody Braque
2017 Movie
The Party
as Bill
2017 Movie
The Journey
as Ian Paisley
2017 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Timothy Spall.
Death Valley
as John Chapel • 12 eps
2025 Series
The Sixth Commandment
as Peter Farquhar • 4 eps
2023 Series
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
as Self – Actor • 1 eps
2022 Series
Remembers…
as Self • 1 eps
2022 Series
Perpetual Grace LTD
as Donald DeLoash • 5 eps
2019 Series
Summer of Rockets
as Lord Arthur Wallington • 6 eps
2019 Series
Hatton Garden
as Terry Perkins • 4 eps
2019 Series
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
as Ed Jacobson • 1 eps
2017 Series
Fungus the Bogeyman
as Fungus • 3 eps
2015 Series
The Enfield Haunting
as Maurice Grosse • 3 eps
2015 Series
Wolf Hall
as Duke of Norfolk • 5 eps
2015 Series
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self • 1 eps
2014 Series
Blandings
as Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth • 13 eps
2013 Series
London 2012 Olympic Games
as Self • 1 eps
2012 Series
The Syndicate
5 eps
2012 Series
Timothy Spall: All at Sea
as Himself • 4 eps
2012 Series
Timothy Spall: Back At Sea
as Himself • 4 eps
2011 Series
Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
as Himself • 3 eps
2010 Series
10 Minute Tales
as Man • 1 eps
2009 Series
Oliver Twist
as Fagin • 5 eps
2007 Series
British Film Forever
1 eps
2007 Series
The Graham Norton Show
as Self • 1 eps
2007 Series
The One Show
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2006 Series
The Street
as Eddie McEvoy • 18 eps
2006 Series