Timothy Spall
Actor
- Born
- February 27, 1957 (age 69) · Battersea, London, England, UK
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).
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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
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
May 31, 2004
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
November 16, 2005
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
July 12, 2011
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
July 8, 2007
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
July 15, 2009
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
November 17, 2010
Alice in Wonderland
March 3, 2010
The King's Speech
November 26, 2010
The Last Samurai
December 5, 2003
Alice Through the Looking Glass
May 25, 2016
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
December 21, 2007
Enchanted
November 20, 2007
Acting137
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