Timothy Spall
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.
Filmography (189 Appearances)
Murdering Michael Malloy
Untitled 13
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
Hamlet
Goodbye June
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
Death Valley
Rich Flu
Wicked Little Letters
The Heist Before Christmas
Bolan's Shoes
Northern Comfort
The Sixth Commandment
The Pale Blue Eye
This Is Christmas
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Remembers…
Spencer
The Grand Duke Of Corsica
The Last Bus
It Snows in Benidorm
Grizzly II: Revenge
Mrs Lowry & Son
Perpetual Grace LTD
Summer of Rockets
Hatton Garden
The Corrupted
This Time Away
Early Man
Finding Your Feet
The Changeover
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
The Party
The Journey
Stanley, a Man of Variety
Denial
Away
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Fungus The Bogeyman
Fungus the Bogeyman
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
Cider with Rosie
Sucker
The Enfield Haunting
Wolf Hall
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
The One and Only Mike Leigh
Mr. Turner
9 Kisses
The Love Punch
Back with the Boys Again
Blandings
Room on the Broom
Love Bite
London 2012 Olympic Games
Ginger & Rosa
Upside Down
The Rise
London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music
Assassin's Bullet
The Syndicate
Boy
Timothy Spall: All at Sea
Comes a Bright Day
My Angel
Reuniting the Rubins
Timothy Spall: Back At Sea
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Wake Wood
The King's Speech
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Jackboots on Whitehall
Heartless
Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
Alice in Wonderland
10 Minute Tales
The Fattest Man in Britain
From Time to Time
Desert Flower
Gunrush
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Damned United
Appaloosa
A Room with a View
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Oliver Twist
Enchanted
A Room with a View
Death Defying Acts
British Film Forever
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The Graham Norton Show
Mysterious Creatures
The One Show
The Street
Teenage Tourettes Camp
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
Cherished
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Last Samurai
Gettin' Square
One Life
My House in Umbria
Nicholas Nickleby
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Top Gear
All or Nothing
Bodily Harm
Ivor the Invisible
Vanilla Sky
Rock Star
Lucky Break
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
Perfect Strangers
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Intimacy
The Thing about Vince
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
Chicken Run
Vatel
Love's Labour's Lost
Rough for Theatre II
Topsy-Turvy
The Clandestine Marriage
Shooting the Past
Immortality
Still Crazy
Our Mutual Friend
Parkinson
Neville's Island
The Swords
The Hunger
Hamlet
Secrets & Lies
Jeremy Hardy Gives Good Sex
Nice Day at the Office
The Danny Baker Show
Outside Edge
Frank Stubbs Promotes
Roots
Dread Poets' Society
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Murder Most Horrid
Not Mozart: WAM! Limited
Nona
Pebble Mill
Performance
Broke
Life Is Sweet
Spender
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
The Sheltering Sky
1871
White Hunter, Black Heart
Crusoe
David Macaulay: Pyramid
Dream Demon
This Morning
To Kill a Priest
Red Dwarf
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Journey's End
Body Contact
Gothic
ScreenPlay
Dutch Girls
The Bride
A Crack in the Ice
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
The Missionary
Remembrance
Oliver Twist
Home Sweet Home
A Cotswold Death
The Three Sisters
The Cherry Orchard
Say No to Strangers
S.O.S. Titanic
The Brylcreem Boys
Quadrophenia
The Vanishing Army
The Life Story of Baal
BBC2 Play of the Week
Playhouse
Film '72
Play for Today