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Timothy Spall
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Person

Timothy Spall

b. 1957

English actor

Born
27 Feb 1957 · London

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 79 years
  1. 27 Feb 1957BornBorn in London
  2. 2014AwardEuropean Film Award for Best Actor

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1957 – today).

  1. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  3. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  4. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  5. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  7. 1968Prague Spring
  8. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  9. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  10. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  11. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  12. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  13. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  14. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  15. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  16. 1985Schengen Agreement
  17. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  18. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  19. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  21. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  22. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  23. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  24. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  25. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  26. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  27. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  28. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  29. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  30. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  31. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  32. 20112011 Norway attacks
  33. 2011Libyan civil war
  34. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  35. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  36. 20142014 FIFA World Cup
  37. 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
  38. 2015Paris Agreement
  39. 20182018 FIFA World Cup
  40. 2020COVID-19 pandemic

Biography

Timothy Leonard Spall ( SPAWL; born 27 February 1957) is an English actor. He gained recognition for his character actor roles on stage and screen.

In 2000, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II.

Spall is known for his collaborations with director Mike Leigh, acting in six of his films: Home Sweet Home (1982), Life is Sweet (1990), Secrets & Lies (1996), Topsy-Turvy (1999), All or Nothing (2002), and Mr. Turner (2014). He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for his roles in Secrets and Lies and Topsy-Turvy, and in 2014 he received the Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award for his portrayal of J. M. W. Turner in Mr. Turner.

Spall has acted in films such as 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), The Party (2017), and Spencer (2021). He voiced Nick the rat in Chicken Run (2000), and portrayed Peter Pettigrew (Wormtail) in five Harry Potter films, from Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) to Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010). In 2025, he appeared in Goodbye June directed by Kate Winslet.

On television, Spall played Barry Spencer Taylor in the ITV comedy drama series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983–2004) and Lord Arthur Wallington in the BBC Cold War drama Summer of Rockets (2019). He won the 2024 International Emmy Awards and BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, for his performance as Peter Farquhar in The Sixth Commandment. He currently plays the leading role in the BBC murder mystery series Death Valley.

From 2010 to 2012, the BBC broadcast three documentary series Timothy Spall: ...at Sea, about Spall's voyage around Britain in his barge.

Text from the Wikipedia article Timothy Spall, CC BY-SA 4.0

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