After making his film debut in Quadrophenia and gaining wider television exposure playing Barry Taylor in all four series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, as well as appearing as Aubrey the chef in Mike Leigh’s Life is Sweet, Timothy Spall went on to have roles in numerous films including Crusoe, Secrets & Lies, Shooting the Past, Topsy-Turvy, Vanilla Sky, Rock Star, All or Nothing, The Last Samurai, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, and The King’s Speech.
In the Harry Potter movie series, he also played Wormtail, Peter Pettigrew. He made a cameo appearance in the episode “Back to Reality” of Red Dwarf’s fifth season in 1991, and in Rab C. Nesbitt, a Scottish comedy series, in 1993.
In addition to his work as an actor, Spall also excelled vocally, singing lead on the song “The Devil is an Englishman” from the 1986 movie Gothic, in which he portrayed the part of John William Polidori.
In the 2005 movie Pierrepoint, which was dubbed The Last Hangman in the US, he also played Albert Pierrepoint. He provided the voice for the role of Barry Mickelthwaite, the game’s Phil Collins manager, in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (2006).
Is Timothy Spall Peter Pettigrew?
Yes, Timothy Spall as Peter Pettigrew in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Is Timothy Spall in the crown?
“The Crown” Timothy Spall is replaced by actor Tim McMullan in the UK’s “Magpie” on Masterpiece and BritBox. Tim McMullan, a British actor, has taken over Timothy Spall’s role as investigator Atticus Pünd in the television series “Magpie Murders.”