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Timothy Spall
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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 Chickβ¦
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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 β 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 (2010β2012) 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
as Terence Hilbery

Hamlet
as Polonius

Goodbye June
as Bernie

Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks

Rich Flu
as Sebastian Snail Sr.

Wicked Little Letters
as Edward Swan

The Heist Before Christmas
as Santa

Bolan's Shoes
as Jimmy

Northern Comfort
as Edward

The Pale Blue Eye
as Superintendent Thayer

This Is Christmas
as Ray

Spencer
as Major Alistair Gregorys

The Grand Duke of Corsica
as Alfred Rott

The Last Bus
as Tom

It Snows in Benidorm
as Peter Riordan

Grizzly II: Revenge
as Rob (uncredited)

Mrs Lowry & Son
as L.S. Lowry

The Corrupted
as Clifford Cullen

This Time Away
as Nigel

Early Man
as Chief Bobnar (voice)

Finding Your Feet
as Charlie Glover

The Changeover
as Carmody Braque

The Party
as Bill

The Journey
as Ian Paisley

Stanley, a Man of Variety
as 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

Denial
as David Irving

Away
as Joseph

Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
No Poster
Fungus The Bogeyman
as Fungus

A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
as Self / Nick

Cider with Rosie
as Laurie Lee (voice)

Sucker
as The Professor
No Poster
The One and Only Mike Leigh
as Self

Mr. Turner
as JMW Turner

9 Kisses
as Bartender

The Love Punch
as Jerry

Back with the Boys Again
as Himself

Room on the Broom
as Dragon (voice)

Love Bite
as Sid

Ginger & Rosa
as Mark

Upside Down
as Bob Boruchowitz

The Rise
as D I West

London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music
as Winston Churchill

Assassin's Bullet
as Dr. Kahn
No Poster
Boy

Comes a Bright Day
as Charlie

My Angel
as Mr. Lambert

Reuniting the Rubins
as Lennie Rubin

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Peter Pettigrew

Wake Wood
as Arthur

The King's Speech
as Winston Churchill

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Peter Pettigrew

Jackboots on Whitehall
as Churchill (voice)

Heartless
as George Morgan

Alice in Wonderland
as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)

The Fattest Man in Britain
as Georgie Godwin

From Time to Time
as Boggis

Desert Flower
as Terry Donaldson

Gunrush
as Doug Becket

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
as Peter Pettigrew

The Damned United
as Peter Taylor

Appaloosa
as Phil Olson

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
as Beadle

Enchanted
as Nathaniel

A Room with a View
as Mr Emerson

Death Defying Acts
as Sugarman

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)

Mysterious Creatures
as Bill Ainscow

Teenage Tourettes Camp
as Narrator

Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
as Albert Pierrepoint

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Wormtail
No Poster
Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
as Malcolm Harvey

Cherished
as Terry Cannings

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
as Mr. Poe

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Peter Pettigrew

The Last Samurai
as Simon Graham

Gettin' Square
as Darren Barrington

My House in Umbria
as Quinty

Nicholas Nickleby
as Charles Cheeryble

Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
as Self

All or Nothing
as Phil
No Poster
Ivor the Invisible
as Dad (voice)

Vanilla Sky
as Thomas Tipp

Rock Star
as Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager

Lucky Break
as Cliff

Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
as Tommy Rag

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
as Luis Agalla

Intimacy
as Andy, Claire's husband

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
as Cunningham

Chicken Run
as Nick (voice)

Vatel
as Gourville

Love's Labour's Lost
as Armado

Rough for Theatre II
as B

Topsy-Turvy
as Richard Temple (The Mikado)

The Clandestine Marriage
as Sterling

Immortality
as Inspector Healey

Still Crazy
as David "Beano" Baggot

Neville's Island
as Gordon

The Swords
as Salesman

Hamlet
as Rosencrantz

Secrets & Lies
as Maurice Purley

Jeremy Hardy Gives Good Sex

Roots
as Jimmy Beales

Dread Poets' Society
as Derek
No Poster
Not Mozart: WAM! Limited
as Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart
No Poster
Nona
as Chico

Broke
as Francis Meeks

Life Is Sweet
as Aubrey

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
as Pig Robinson

The Sheltering Sky
as Eric Lyle

1871
as Ramborde

White Hunter, Black Heart
as Hodkins

Crusoe
as Reverend Milne

David Macaulay: Pyramid
as Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)

Dream Demon
as Peck

To Kill a Priest
as Igor

Journey's End
as Lt. Trotter

Body Contact
as Paul

Gothic
as Dr. Polidori

Dutch Girls
as Lyndon Baines Jellicoe

The Bride
as Paulus

A Crack in the Ice
as Pte. Postnikov

The Missionary
as Parswell

Remembrance
as Douglas

Oliver Twist
as 1st Constable

Home Sweet Home
as Gordon

A Cotswold Death
as Detective Sergeant Baxter
No Poster
The Three Sisters
as Andrei

The Cherry Orchard
as Epikhodov
No Poster
Say No to Strangers
as Stranger

S.O.S. Titanic
as Jim (uncredited)

The Brylcreem Boys
as Shorty

Quadrophenia
as Projectionist

The Vanishing Army
as Wainwright

The Life Story of Baal
as Lupu
No Poster
Murdering Michael Malloy
as Michael Malloy
