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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Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
Goodbye June
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
Hamlet
Rich Flu
Wicked Little Letters
The Heist Before Christmas
Bolan's Shoes
Northern Comfort
The Pale Blue Eye
This Is Christmas
Spencer
The Last Bus
The Grand Duke of Corsica
Grizzly II: Revenge
It Snows in Benidorm
This Time Away
Mrs Lowry & Son
The Corrupted
Early Man
Finding Your Feet
The Party
The Changeover
Denial
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Stanley a Man of Variety
The Journey
Away- FUFungus The Bogeyman
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
Cider with Rosie
Sucker
Mr. Turner
9 Kisses
The Love Punch
Back with the Boys Again
Room on the Broom
Ginger & Rosa
Upside Down- BOBoy
Wasteland
Love Bite
Assassin's Bullet
Comes a Bright Day
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Wake Wood
My Angel
The King's Speech
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Alice in Wonderland
Reuniting the Rubins
Jackboots on Whitehall
The Fattest Man in Britain
Desert Flower
Gunrush
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Damned United
Heartless
From Time to Time
Appaloosa
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Enchanted
A Room with a View
Death Defying Acts
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Mysterious Creatures
Teenage Tourettes Camp
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire- MRMr Harvey Lights a Candle
Cherished
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Last Samurai
My House in Umbria
Gettin' Square
Nicholas Nickleby
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
All or Nothing- IVIvor the Invisible
Vanilla Sky
Rock Star
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
Intimacy
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Lucky Break
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
Immortality
Still Crazy
Neville's Island
The Swords
Hamlet
Secrets & Lies
Jeremy Hardy Gives Good Sex
Roots
Dread Poets' Society- NONot Mozart: WAM! Limited
- NONona
Broke
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Life Is Sweet
The Sheltering Sky
White Hunter, Black Heart
1871
Crusoe
David Macaulay: Pyramid
Dream Demon
To Kill a Priest
Journey's End
Gothic
Body Contact
Dutch Girls
The Bride
A Crack in the Ice
The Missionary
Remembrance
Oliver Twist
Home Sweet Home
A Cotswold Death- THThe Three Sisters
The Cherry Orchard- SASay No to Strangers
S.O.S. Titanic
The Brylcreem Boys
Quadrophenia- MUMurdering Michael Malloy
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