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: ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Rich Flu
2024
as Sebastian Snail Sr.
A strange disease kills off some of the richest and most influential people on the planet. First it was the billionaires, then the multi-millionaires ...

Wicked Little Letters
2024
as Edward Swan
When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is...

The Heist Before Christmas
2023
as Santa
After a bank robber dressed as Santa Claus holds up a bank, a child disillusioned with Christmas encounters a man in the woods who, also dressed as Sa...

Bolan's Shoes
2023
as Jimmy
A love letter to 70s glam rock told through the eyes of Jimmy and Penny, two children who grew up in a children’s home and were involved in an acciden...

Northern Comfort
2023
as Edward
A special forces veteran, an uptight property developer, an influencer with half a million followers and an incompetent instructor are thrown together...

The Pale Blue Eye
2022
as Superintendent Thayer
West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New Y...

This Is Christmas
2022
as Ray
Follow Adam and Emma on their daily commute from the village of Langton to London, where they meet the same passengers every day. One morning, Adam br...

Spencer
2021
as Major Alistair Gregorys
During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charl...

The Grand Duke Of Corsica
2021
as Alfred Rott
A cantankerous and brilliant architect, Alfred, embarks on a highly unusual commission in Malta for a man who calls himself 'The Grand Duke of Corsica...

The Last Bus
2021
as Tom
Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O'Groats in Caithness to Land's ...

The Last Bus
2021
Executive Producer
Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O'Groats in Caithness to Land's ...

It Snows in Benidorm
2020
as Peter Riordan
Peter has worked all his life at a Manchester bank. When he is awarded an early retirement, he decides to visit his brother in Benidorm, only to disco...

Grizzly II: Revenge
2020
as Rob (uncredited)
All hell breaks loose when a giant grizzly, reacting to the slaughter of her cubs by poachers, attacks a massive rock concert in the National Park. [...

Mrs Lowry & Son
2019
as L.S. Lowry
An intimate portrayal of the relationship between one of greatest artists of the 20th century, L.S. Lowry and his unhappy and controlling mother, Eliz...

The Corrupted
2019
as Clifford Cullen
Set ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, the film follows Liam, an ex-con trying to win back the love and trust of his family. He has lost everything at...

This Time Away
2019
as Nigel
The elderly Nigel is haunted by his past and the memories of his long-lost family. Then a visitor arrives and turns his world upside down..

Early Man
2018
as Chief Bobnar (voice)
Dug, along with his sidekick Hognob, unite a cavemen tribe to save their hidden valley from being spoiled and, all together as a team, to face the men...

Finding Your Feet
2017
as Charlie Glover
A lady has her prim and proper life turned upside down after discovering her husband's affair.

The Changeover
2017
as Carmody Braque
Laura Chant, 16, lives with her mother and four-year-old brother Jacko in a poor new suburb on the edge of a partially demolished Christchurch, New Ze...

The Party
2017
as Bill
Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that throws thei...

The Journey
2017
as Ian Paisley
Firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland, are for...

Stanley, a Man of Variety
2016
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
A man who has been stuck in prison for far too long starts to see hallucinations.

Denial
2016
as David Irving
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a reno...

Away
2016
as Joseph
A story set in the north English seaside town of Blackpool and centered on two kindred spirits who form an unlikely friendship.

Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.
Fungus The Bogeyman
2015
as Fungus
Raymond Briggs' classic family story about smelly monsters, dangerous humans and what happens when the things that go bump in the night move in next d...

A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
2015
as Self / Nick
Julie Walters tells the story of how Morph, Shaun the Sheep and that cheese-loving man Wallace and his dog Gromit first came to life.

Cider with Rosie
2015
as Laurie Lee (voice)
A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.

Sucker
2015
as The Professor
When Chinese-Australian teenager Lawrence cheats at and fails his high-school exams, destroying his dreams of a medical degree, he's banished to the c...

9 Kisses
2014
as Arm Wrestling Man #2
2014's best actors pair up in a series of intimate encounters.
The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014
as Self
In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about a...

Mr. Turner
2014
as JMW Turner
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful ...

The Love Punch
2014
as Jerry
Retirement at last! Middle-aged and divorced, company owner Richard Jones is looking forward to a worry-free existence as he arrives at his office on ...

Back With The Boys Again
2013
as Himself
In September 2013, members of the cast, writers and crew gathered on Tyneside to reminisce and celebrate the show that captured the imagination of a g...

Room on the Broom
2012
as Dragon (voice)
Animated film based on the wonderful children's picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. The story of a kind witch ...

Love Bite
2012
as Sid
Four teenaged lads set off to get laid in order to stay alive. However, the boys have to attract the girls first in order to complete their mission. O...

Ginger & Rosa
2012
as Mark
A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and th...

Upside Down
2012
as Bob Boruchowitz
In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his que...

Wasteland
2012
as D I West
A young man recently released from prison recruits his three best friends to rob the local drug kingpin who is responsible for his incarceration.

Assassin's Bullet
2012
as Dr. Kahn
In Assassin's Bullet, Slater plays Robert Diggs, a black ops agent who comes to work for Ambassador Ashdown (Hunger Games star Donald Sutherland), tra...
Boy
2012
The winner of British Airways ”Great Britons” competition, the film tells the story of a carpenter at the Olympic Velodrome track and his cyclist son...

Comes a Bright Day
2012
as Charlie
A romantic thriller set during the armed robbery of one of London’s most exclusive jewellers. Sometimes funny, often dark, always captivating and neve...

My Angel
2011
as Mr. Lambert
Fifteen year old Eddie's mother falls very ill after a serious car accident. Eddie and his brother Stewart end up having to take care of themselves an...

Reuniting the Rubins
2011
as Lennie Rubin
An up-tight lawyer, Lenny Rubins, (Timothy Spall), has to put his dream retirement on hold when his ailing mother (Honor Blackman) emotionally blackma...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Peter Pettigrew
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wiza...

Wake Wood
2011
as Arthur
The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.

The King's Speech
2010
as Winston Churchill
The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Peter Pettigrew
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for ...

Jackboots on Whitehall
2010
as Churchill (voice)
A satirical alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must band together to prevent a full on invasion.

Heartless
2010
as George Morgan
The story follows Jamie, a troubled young man with a birthmark on his face, which has left him feeling isolated and fearful, hiding from the world out...

Alice in Wonderland
2010
as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny.

The Fattest Man in Britain
2009
as Georgie Godwin
Georgie Godwin is the fattest man in Britain. A tourist attraction, thanks to greedy 'agent, cabbie Morris. Devoted neighbour Janice is Georgie's only...

From Time to Time
2009
as Boggis
A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, two centuries apart. When 13 year old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an...

Desert Flower
2009
as Terry Donaldson
The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is n...

Gunrush
2009
as Doug Becket
Set against the rising wave of gun crime in Britain, Gunrush sees a father driven to take the law into his own hands after his daughter is shot dead.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
as Peter Pettigrew
As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven. Harry suspects perils may even lie wi...

The Damned United
2009
as Peter Taylor
Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to...

Appaloosa
2008
as Phil Olson
Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007
as Beadle
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with...

Enchanted
2007
as Nathaniel
The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the str...

A Room with a View
2007
as Mr Emerson
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George st...

Death Defying Acts
2007
as Sugarman
On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
as Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
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...

Mysterious Creatures
2006
as Bill Ainscow
Feature-length ITV drama based on real events. Bill and Wendy Ainscow (Timothy Spall and Brenda Blethyn) are a middle class, middle-aged Birmingham co...

Teenage Tourettes Camp
2006
as Narrator
Follows five British teenagers with Tourette's Syndrome as they spend a week in an American summer camp.

Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
2005
as Albert Pierrepoint
Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery delivery...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
as Wormtail
When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the Tri...
Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
2005
as Malcolm Harvey
A teacher comes to terms with his past during a school trip to Salisbury Cathedral.

Cherished
2005
as Terry Cannings
A drama based on the true story of Angela Cannings, who was wrongly convicted of killing two of her children, on the basis of "expert witness" evidenc...

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004
as Mr. Poe
Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and se...

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
as Peter Pettigrew
Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts...

The Last Samurai
2003
as Simon Graham
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and th...

Gettin' Square
2003
as Darren Barrington
Gettin' Square is about starting over, keeping clean and going straight. Barry Wirth is fresh out of prison and determined to stay on the straight and...

My House in Umbria
2003
as Quinty
Emily Delahunty is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy. One day while travelling, the train she is on is bombed...

Nicholas Nickleby
2002
as Charles Cheeryble
Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly...

Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
2002
as Self
Veteran radio, theatre, television and film actor Christopher Plummer has played a thousand parts, but beneath that elegant stage presence lies the re...

All or Nothing
2002
as Phil
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, ...
Ivor the Invisible
2001
as Dad (voice)
Written by Raymond Briggs, this beautifully animated film tells the story of ten-year-old John. After being woken up early one morning. John finds a b...

Vanilla Sky
2001
as Thomas Tipp
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribl...

Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
2001
as Tommy Rag
Tommy is a vacuum cleaner salesman gripped by the fever of closing the deal. He lives on puffa rice stored in his glove compartment, listens to motiva...

Rock Star
2001
as Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager
A wannabe rock star who fronts a Pennsylvania-based tribute band is devastated when his bandmates kick him out of the group he founded. Things begin t...

Lucky Break
2001
as Cliff
Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which...

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001
A man is forced to confront a dangerous female jaguar and his own past through the sacrificial killing of the beast he has grown to love.

Intimacy
2001
as Andy, Claire's husband
Failed musician Jay abandoned his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon, a woman comes to ...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
2000
as Cunningham
Posing as a dancer for the Ballets Russes in Barcelona, Indy meets old friend Pablo Picasso, and narrowly outwits inept German spies. Dashing off to P...

Chicken Run
2000
as Nick (voice)
The creators of Wallace & Gromit bring you an exciting and original story about a group of chickens determined to fly the coop–even if they can’t fly!...

Vatel
2000
as Gourville
In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants ...

Love's Labour's Lost
2000
as Armado
A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and h...

Rough for Theatre II
2000
as B
Two bureaucrats discuss the potential suicide of a man standing perfectly still in front of a door that opens into the night sky and a fatal drop.

Topsy-Turvy
1999
as Richard Temple (The Mikado)
After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Th...

The Clandestine Marriage
1999
as Sterling
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...

Immortality
1998
as Inspector Healey
A vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to 'redeem' him.

Still Crazy
1998
as David "Beano" Baggot
In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an over...

Neville's Island
1998
as Gordon
Comedy about 4 middle aged businessmen on a team building exercise in the lake district

The Swords
1997
as Salesman
A man becomes involved with a woman who can be penetrated by swords.

Hamlet
1996
as Rosencrantz
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Secrets & Lies
1996
as Maurice Purley
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cyn...

Roots
1992
as Jimmy Beales
Presentation of Arnold Wesker's play of the 1950s. A young girl returns to her family home in Norfolk, having been educated in cultural and political ...

Dread Poets' Society
1992
as Derek
Benjamin Zephaniah, renowned Rastafarian poet/rapper is traveling by train from Birmingham to Cambridge to receive his Creative Arts Fellowship sharin...
Not Mozart: WAM! Limited
1991
as Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart
Composer Misha Mengelberg collaborates with director Anthony Garner on a commissioned short film to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of ...
Nona
1991
as Chico
British production of Argentinan Roberto Cossa's play, set in Argentina in 1982. Nona is an elderly woman who is causing a drain on the resources of h...

Broke
1991
as Francis Meeks
Francis and his wife, Elaine, are proprietors of a struggling window-covering business, agree to install curtains in an exclusive club patronized by ...

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
as Pig Robinson
Adapted from the Beatrix Potter story tells the story of the pignap of Little Pig Robinson by Captain Barnabus Butcher who fools Robinson into believi...

Life Is Sweet
1990
as Aubrey
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts o...

The Sheltering Sky
1990
as Eric Lyle
An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.

1871
1990
as Ramborde
A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.

White Hunter, Black Heart
1990
as Hodkins
Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hunt elephants and other game, to the dismay of his c...

David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
as Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)
How did ancient Egyptians build the Great Pyramid at Giza, joining two million blocks of heavy stone with amazing precision? Who were the leaders who ...

Dream Demon
1988
as Peck
As her marriage to decorated war hero Oliver draws near, well-heeled Diana moves into an apartment within an otherwise unoccupied, sprawling London ho...

To Kill a Priest
1988
as Igor
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

Crusoe
1988
as Reverend Milne
Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools he manages to rescue from the wreck he has to lea...

Journey's End
1988
as Lt. Trotter
A British Company in the WWI trenches await an inevitable German attack in this 1988 adaptation of R.C. Sherriff's play.

Body Contact
1987
as Paul
In the future, around Tottenham and Hackney, taxi driver Smiley comes to the assistance of the beautiful Dominique Renoir, who's on the run from her v...

Gothic
1987
as Dr. Polidori
Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and a...

Dutch Girls
1985
as Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
In this sophomoric comedy, a lusty adolescent British hockey team heads for Holland where they find something far more interesting than tulips and win...

The Bride
1985
as Paulus
Doctor Frankenstein creates a mate for his monster, a woman called Eva, who promptly rejects the male creature. In turn, the doctor becomes obsessed w...

The Missionary
1982
as Parswell
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment...

Remembrance
1982
as Douglas
A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise, go out on the town on their last night in port, h...

Oliver Twist
1982
as 1st Constable
The classic Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets.

Home Sweet Home
1982
as Gordon
Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.

A Cotswold Death
1982
as Detective Sergeant Baxter
A village cricket match on the lawn of a great country house - a traditional setting for the perfect English murder. A natural case for the Yard's bes...
The Three Sisters
1981
as Andrei
Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga att...

The Cherry Orchard
1981
as Epikhodov
Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay deb...
Say No to Strangers
1981
as Stranger
A short film to warn children of sexual predators.

S.O.S. Titanic
1980
as Jim (uncredited)
The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.

The Brylcreem Boys
1979
as Shorty
Cpl. George Hunn's sentry post is knocked over and he wakes to find he is suffering from frost bite of the face. Sent to hospital he is put on a ward ...

Quadrophenia
1979
as Projectionist
Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While af...

The Vanishing Army
1978
as Wainwright
"Why don't you keep that missus o' yours under control? She ain't exactly doin' you a packet o' good, is she? If she was mine I'd bloody put 'er right...

Untitled 13
N/A
Documentary about the making of Mike Leigh's Mr.Turner, unreleased due to unspecified 'legal reasons'
Night and Day
N/A
as Mr Hilbery
Based on Virginia Woolf’s novel, an unromantic comedy about a passionate astronomer who does everything she can to avoid romantic love and marriage. T...
Hamlet
N/A
as Polonius
Set in a modern-day London of economic and political uncertainty, the story follows the intersecting themes of familial honor, moral duty and dynastic...
Goodbye June
N/A
A touching, yet humorous story which sees a fractured group of siblings pull together under sudden and trying circumstances.
Late in Summer
N/A
Executive Producer
Set in rural Cornwall, the romantic drama will chart a brief encounter between a lonely farmer’s wife and a Black American GI that leads to first love...