Biography
Timothy Dingwall Bateson was an English actor.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
as Kreacher (voice)
Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Le...

Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
2005
as Summers
All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.

Oliver Twist
2005
as Parson / Man with a Punch
An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who a...

Ladies in Lavender
2004
as Mr Hallett
Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover ...

All or Nothing
2002
as Harold
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, ...

The Discovery of Heaven
2001
as Mr. Keller
Disappointed with humanity, God wants to revoke his contract with humanity and wants to take back the stone tablets containing the ten commandments. T...

For My Baby
2000
as Max Liebman
A young Austrian comedian struggles with the nightmare of his past and a dead sister who refuses to die by laying claim to his soul.

Don Quixote
2000
as 2nd Monk
Adapted from the work of Miguel de Cervantes, this is the story of a hidalgo, fanatic for chivalry novels, who loses his sanity and believing to be a ...

The Clandestine Marriage
1999
as Gaoler
A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an aristocr...

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999
as English Judge
In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberat...

The Criminal
1999
as Thomas
Jasper Rawlins, a none-too-successful musician, finds himself chatting with a beautiful woman at his neighborhood bar. She goes home with him, direct ...
Birds of Prey
1998
as Hugh
An eccentric old man takes bizarre revenge on a couple preying on the elderly.

True Blue
1996
as Porter
The story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one where winning was everything.

Annie: A Royal Adventure
1995
as Derwood
Annie is back! Along with her friends Molly, Hannah, her dog Sandy, and her wealthy father Oliver Warbucks. They take a trip to England where Warbucks...

Joseph
1995
as Priester
Joseph, favored son of Jacob and great-grandson of Abraham, is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers. Rising to become prime minister of Egypt. Jo...

Hard Times
1994
as Childers
Charles Dickens' bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London comes to life with an outstanding cast and brilliant cine...

Heart of Darkness
1993
as Accountant
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.

Between Two Worlds
1992
as Dr. Ludwig
The story of a young man undergoing treatment by a Czech psychoanalyst.
Old Rococo: The Life of Gioacchino Rossini
1992
as Voice of Stendhal
The life of legendary opera composer Gioacchino Rossini is recounted in this documentary, which examines how the author of "The Barber of Seville" opt...

A Handful of Dust
1988
as MacDougal
English aristocrat Tony Last welcomes tragedy into his life when he invites John Beaver to visit his vast estate. There Beaver makes the acquaintance ...

East of Ipswich
1987
as Mr Macklin
Seventeen-year-old Richard and his parents take their annual seaside holiday in a guesthouse on England's east coast in the 1950s. Julia, a teenage gi...

Foreign Body
1986
as Agent at Harley Street
Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain a...

Labyrinth
1986
as The Worm / Goblin (voice)
When Sarah is forced to babysit her half-brother Toby, she inadvertently summons the Goblin King and he whisks Toby away to his castle at the centre o...

A Christmas Carol
1984
as Mr. Fezziwig
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982
as Commerce
Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimod...

Loophole
1981
as 3rd Interviewer
When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in...
The Gate of Eden: Part Three - Peter
1980
as Arthur
Peter feels he has to choose between his friend, Mr Falconer, and his new girlfriend, Sue.
The Gate of Eden: Part Two - Sue
1980
as Arthur
Part two of the three-part play by William Corlett about a young man's emergence into the adult world.
The Gate of Eden: Part One - Mr. Falconer
1980
as Arthur
The story concerns the relationship between Peter, a 15 year old boy, and Mr Faulkner, an old man whom he befriends. Mr Faulkner used to be a school t...
Donkeys' Years
1980
as Dicky
Michael Frayn's play about a college reunion.

Tanglewoods' Secret
1980
as Mr. Tandy
Young brother and sister in 1940s New England learn about life, death and faith

As You Like It
1978
as Sir Oliver Martext
Orlando is forced to work like a servant for his brother Oliver, so he goes to win his fortune in a wrestling contest, where he meets a lady of the co...

Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
1978
as Binro
The Doctor is summoned by the mysterious and powerful White Guardian, and sent on a quest to find the six segments of the Key to Time, which, once ass...

Flayed
1978
as Moxey
'There's absolutely no escape. No chairs or tables to hold on to, no fags to light or drinks to pour: no small talk or trivial daytime chatter. Just t...

Joseph Andrews
1977
as Master of Hounds
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph An...

Autobiography of a Princess
1975
as Blackmailer
On the birthday of her late father, a deposed Maharaja, a displaced Indian princess living in London and his former private secretary watch home movie...

Foreign Exchange
1970
A former British Secret Service agent is persuaded to negotiate a spy exchange with Russia, only to find himself drawn into political intrigues.
1917
1970
as Cpl. Willi Falk
A British short film about World War I, directed by Stephen Weeks and starring Timothy Bateson, David Leland, and Geoffrey Davies.

The Spy Killer
1969
Spy Killer stars Robert Horton as a secret agent turned private eye. Framed for murder, Horton is released, but only after promising that he'll track ...

The Magnificent Six and ½: Peewee Had a Little Ape
1969
as Rev. A.J. Mathews
Toby tries on a dummy ape skin which is intended for the local jumble sale, and is mistaken for a real ape which has escaped from a travelling circus....

The Italian Job
1969
as Dentist
Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a high-risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose ...

Twisted Nerve
1968
as Mr. Groom
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he re...

The Anniversary
1968
as Mr. Bird
Mrs Taggart always celebrates her anniversary with her grown sons. It’s a tradition practised since the death of her husband and she is determined for...

Danger Route
1967
as Halliwell
Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but his superiors pressure him into taking on a new ass...
The Mayfly and the Frog
1966
When a Rolls Royce damages a scooter, the furious owner goes to seek redress, and finds herself face to face with a millionaire capitalist.
Tunnel under the World
1966
as Swanson
Déja vu: as Guy Birkett goes through the day he has a nagging feeling that he's been here before, experienced this already; except the details are alw...

After the Fox
1966
as Michael O'Reilly
A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.

The Wrong Box
1966
as Clerk
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.

The Stable Door
1966
This is a film made as an elaborate advert for the Insurance Industry. A group of criminals conspire to rob a warehouse which has also been spotted as...

The Knack... and How to Get It
1965
as Junkyard Owner
A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men meet up wi...

Nightmare
1964
as Hotel Bartender
A young student is haunted by recurring dreams of her mother murdering her father, but her nightmare is just beginning as she tries to prove to her lo...

Father Came Too!
1964
as Wally
When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up them...

Doctor in Distress
1963
as Mr Holly
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and som...

Seventy Deadly Pills
1963
as Goldstone
A small boy, Dickie Goodwin, finds some strychnine pills mixed with sweets in a stolen car left in a deserted garage. With them he buys his way into t...

Jigsaw
1962
A woman is found murdered in a seaside house along the coast from Brighton in the county of East Sussex, England. Local D.I. Fred Fellows and D.S. Jim...

The Girl on the Boat
1962
as Purser
Norman Wisdom does to P.G. Wodehouse in Girl on the Boat what Jerry Lewis did to Gore Vidal in Visit to a Small Planet. The zany Wisdom, put in charge...

Crooks Anonymous
1962
as Partridge
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a depart...

It's Trad, Dad!
1962
as Coffee Shop Owner
The hero and heroine want to popularize a trad jazz in their town. Some older people feel displeased about a trad jazz, and prevent their trying. The ...
The Golden Rabbit
1962
as Henry Tucker
A bashful bank clerk who fancies himself a scientist discovers a method to make gold, which arouses the greed of unscrupulous businessmen, forcing him...

The Day the Earth Caught Fire
1961
as Printer (uncredited)
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world aft...

On the Fiddle
1961
as Stretcher Bearer (Uncredited)
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedl...

What a Carve Up!
1961
as Porter
Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral family home with the rest of his rather ecce...

The Unstoppable Man
1961
as Rocky
Mitchell is a rich American businessman whose son is kidnapped in England. Naturally, there's a huge ransom demand, but Scotland Yard tells Mitchell t...

There Was a Crooked Man
1960
as Flash Dan
When a law-abiding demolition expert is duped by a gang of criminals into helping them he is caught and jailed. When he is released he goes straight a...

The Big Day
1960
as Clerk
A drama unfolding in the business world where shrewd methods are adopted by a boss to select a suitable yes-man for the Board.

Expresso Bongo
1959
as Amusement Arcade Manager
A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.

Devil's Bait
1959
as Dentist
The police, with the help of a baker, try to find the owner a loaf of bread accidentally poisoned with potassium cyanide.

Yesterday's Enemy
1959
as Simpson (uncredited)
Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enem...

The Mouse That Roared
1959
as Roger
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign...

The Horse's Mouth
1958
as Clerk to Borough Surveyor (uncredited)
Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse ...

Tread Softly Stranger
1958
as Fletcher
Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.

White Corridors
1951
as Dr. Cook
White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a bus...

The Guinea Pig
1948
as Tracey
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes tog...

Vice Versa
1948
as Coker
Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young agai...

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1947
as Lord Verisopht
A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.