Timothy Spall

Timothy Spall

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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Timothy Spall Movies

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The Pale Blue Eye (2022)

Crime Horror Mystery
West Point, 1830. A cadet is found hanged, his chest cracked open and his heart removed. The military academy calls in Augustus Landor, a weathered former constable with a talent...
Score 6.8
2

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

Adventure Fantasy
The war for the wizarding world reaches Hogwarts itself, and the school that once felt like home becomes a battlefield. Harry, Ron, and Hermione have been hunting Horcruxes in the...
Score 8.1
3

The King’s Speech (2010)

Drama History
When his brother's abdication forces him onto the throne, Prince Albert finds himself utterly unprepared for the one thing royalty demands above all else: the ability to speak. His stammer...
Score 7.7
4

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

Adventure Fantasy
Without the shelter of Hogwarts, Harry, Ron, and Hermione are truly on their own. Grieving, hunted, and increasingly fractured by paranoia, the three friends set out across a bleak and...
Score 7.7
5

Desert Flower (2009)

Drama
Waris Dirie was thirteen when her father arranged to sell her into marriage. She ran. That single act of defiance set her on a path that would carry her from...
Score 7.6
6

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

Adventure Fantasy
Voldemort is no longer a distant threat. His shadow falls across both wizarding and Muggle worlds, and even Hogwarts feels compromised from within. Dumbledore, sensing the clock running out, pulls...
Score 7.7
7

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

Adventure Fantasy
Back at Hogwarts for his fifth year, Harry finds the wizarding establishment has chosen denial over truth. The Ministry refuses to acknowledge Voldemort's return, and the school has been handed...
Score 7.7
8

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

Adventure Fantasy
Nobody asked Harry Potter if he wanted to compete, yet his name came out of the Goblet of Fire anyway. Suddenly he is thrown into the Triwizard Tournament alongside older,...
Score 7.8
9

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Adventure Fantasy
Third year at Hogwarts arrives with a darker mood than Harry has known before. Dementors patrol the school grounds, draining joy from anyone who wanders too close. A convicted murderer...
Score 8.0
10

The Last Samurai (2003)

Action Drama War
Captain Nathan Algren arrives in Meiji-era Japan as a hired gun, tasked with drilling imperial soldiers for a government eager to erase the old ways. But repeated contact with the...
Score 7.6
11

All or Nothing (2002)

Drama
On the grey edges of South London, two parents move through their days like strangers sharing a house. Penny rings up groceries while Phil ferries passengers through streets that feel...
Score 7.1
12

The Sheltering Sky (1990)

Adventure Drama
An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
Score 6.5

Timothy Spall TV Shows

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The Enfield Haunting (2015)

Drama Mystery
North London, 1977. Inside a perfectly ordinary terraced house in Enfield, something deeply wrong begins to happen. A single mother and her children report furniture moving, voices speaking from nowhere,...
Score 6.6

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According to aggregate user scores, the absolute best titles starring Timothy Spall are The Pale Blue Eye, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, and The King’s Speech.
How many movies and TV shows has Timothy Spall starred in? +
Our database currently features a comprehensive filmography of 13 titles starring Timothy Spall, ranging from their earliest roles to the newest releases.
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Yes! The overall filmography starring Timothy Spall maintains a strong average user rating of 7.5 out of 10 across all tracked titles.