StatsBirth Name: Timothy Leonard Spall Age: 56, born 27 February 1957 Country of origin: United Kingdom Ethnicity: White / Caucasian Partner: Shane Spall
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Spall initially made his mark in theatre performing in productions for Birmingham Rep and, later, The Royal Shakespeare Company including The Merry Wives of Windsor, Three Sisters, Nicholas Nickleby and The Knight of the Burning Pestle.
Following a film debut in Quadrophenia and wider TV exposure playing the awkward Barry Taylor in all four series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Kevin in Outside Edge and as Aubrey the appalling chef in Mike Leigh's Life is Sweet, Spall has since appeare
Spall initially made his mark in theatre performing in productions for Birmingham Rep and, later, The Royal Shakespeare Company including The Merry Wives of Windsor, Three Sisters, Nicholas Nickleby and The Knight of the Burning Pestle.
Following a film debut in Quadrophenia and wider TV exposure playing the awkward Barry Taylor in all four series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Kevin in Outside Edge and as Aubrey the appalling chef in Mike Leigh's Life is Sweet, Spall has since appeared in films such as Crusoe, Secrets & Lies, Shooting the Past, Topsy-Turvy, Vanilla Sky, Rock Star, The Last Samurai, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and The King's Speech. He gained international recognition as Peter Pettigrew ("Wormtail") in the Harry Potter film series. In 1991 he guest-starred in the series 5 Red Dwarf episode Back to Reality. In 1993, Spall was in Rab C. Nesbitt.
On 31 December 1999, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).[7]
Spall performed lead vocals on the song The Devil Is An Englishman[8] from the Ken Russell film Gothic (1986), in which Spall portrayed John William Polidori.
Spall filming Enchanted in New York City, March 2007
Spall played the starring role of Albert Pierrepoint in the 2005 film Pierrepoint, which was released as The Last Hangman in the United States. In the 2006 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, Spall voiced Phil Collins' manager, Barry Mickelthwaite. In 2007, he starred as Nathaniel in Disney's Enchanted and Beadle Bamford in Tim Burton's production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. He also starred as Georgie Godwin in a one-off television drama The Fattest Man in Britain on ITV 1 which aired on 20 December 2009. The drama also featured Bobby Ball, Frances Barber, Aisling Loftus and Jeremy Kyle.
In 2010 he portrayed Winston Churchill in critically acclaimed film The King's Speech for which as a member of the ensemble he was jointly awarded the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Spall reprised the role at the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony.
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Dreamcasting Malice: Two Sisters (8 person items)"
Timothy Spall as Captain Russell, the sailor who took Victoria (and Emily) to the island. He was the one of the last known people to see Emily before she disappeared."
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Characters of Harry Potter (75 person items)"Peter Pettigrew/ Wormtail
HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN(2004), HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE(2005), HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX(2007), HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE(2009), HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS:PART 1(2010), & HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS:PART 2(2011)"
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Harry Potter and the Last Airbender (79 person items)"Yon Rha could be Wormtail
Connections:
- - Both were miserable cowards when confronted with their enemy.
- - Both were willing to let someone close to them die so that they could live; his mother/the Potters.
- - Both killed someone in cold blood when it could have been avoided; Kya/Cedric Diggory.
- - Both of their lives were spared when it was realised they weren't worth it.
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My Favorite Performances of All Time (12 person items)"
Movie- All Or Nothing
Character- Phil Bassett
Director- Mike Leigh
Role- A depressed British cab driver struggling from marital problems with his wife."
The Amazing Harry Potter Cast (35 person items)"
Wormtail (Peter Pettigrew)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1"
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