Timothy Spall

Acting · Born 1957-02-27 in Battersea, London, England, UK

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…

Filmography

• The Last Samurai as Simon Graham
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Wormtail
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Peter Pettigrew
• Quadrophenia as Projectionist
• Secrets & Lies as Maurice Purley
• The Damned United as Peter Taylor
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Peter Pettigrew
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Peter Pettigrew
• Desert Flower as Terry Donaldson
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Beadle

TV

• Red Dwarf as Andy
• Top Gear as Self
• This Morning as Self - Guest
• Murder Most Horrid as Pathologist
• The One Show as Self - Guest
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as Cunningham - Masseur
• Performance as Jimmy Beales
• Auf Wiedersehen, Pet as Barry Taylor
• Spender as Robert Cunningham
• Blandings as Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth