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Timothy Spall
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 come…
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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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2026
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
Movie Terence Hilbery
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2026
Hamlet
Movie Polonius
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2025
Goodbye June
Movie Bernie
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2025
Death Valley
TV show John Chapel
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2024
Rich Flu
Movie Sebastian Snail Sr.
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2024
Wicked Little Letters
Movie Edward Swan
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2023
The Heist Before Christmas
Movie Santa
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2023
Bolan's Shoes
Movie Jimmy
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2023
Northern Comfort
Movie Edward
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2023
The Sixth Commandment
TV show Peter Farquhar
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2022
The Pale Blue Eye
Movie Superintendent Thayer
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2022
This Is Christmas
Movie Ray
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2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
TV show Self – Actor
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2022
Remembers…
TV show Self
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2021
Spencer
Movie Major Alistair Gregorys
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2021
The Grand Duke Of Corsica
Movie Alfred Rott
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2021
The Last Bus
Movie Tom
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2020
It Snows in Benidorm
Movie Peter Riordan
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2020
Grizzly II: Revenge
Movie Rob (uncredited)
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2019
Mrs Lowry & Son
Movie L.S. Lowry
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2019
Perpetual Grace LTD
TV show Donald DeLoash
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2019
Summer of Rockets
TV show Lord Arthur Wallington
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2019
Hatton Garden
TV show Terry Perkins
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2019
The Corrupted
Movie Clifford Cullen
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2019
This Time Away
Movie Nigel
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2018
Early Man
Movie Chief Bobnar (voice)
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2017
Finding Your Feet
Movie Charlie Glover
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2017
The Changeover
Movie Carmody Braque
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2017
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
TV show Ed Jacobson
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2017
The Party
Movie Bill
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2017
The Journey
Movie Ian Paisley
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2016
Stanley, a Man of Variety
Movie Stanley/Stanley's Father/Stanley's Mother/Tony Hancock/Peter Sellers aka Dr Boob/George Formby/James Finlayson/Max Wall/Alistair Sim/Margaret Rutherford/Frank Randle/Max Miller/Noel Coward/Igor
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2016
Denial
Movie David Irving
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2016
Away
Movie Joseph
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2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Movie Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
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2015
Fungus the Bogeyman
TV show Fungus
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2015
Fungus The Bogeyman
Movie Fungus
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2015
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
Movie Self / Nick
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2015
Cider with Rosie
Movie Laurie Lee (voice)
