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 comedydrama 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 Kings 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 TopsyTurvy 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 20102012 and in 2019 he appeared as Lord Arthur Wallington in the 6part BBC Cold War drama Summer of Rockets
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