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Timothy Spall
Timothy Spall filming Enchanted in New York City.
Birth name	Timothy Leonard Spall
Born	February 27, 1957 Battersea, London, England
Spouse(s)	Shane Spall (married 1981)
Notable roles	Barry in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Mr. Poe in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Timothy Leonard Spall OBE (born February 27, 1957) is an English BAFTA award-nominated actor from Battersea, London who has trained at the National Youth Theatre and RADA, where he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal as the most promising actor in his year.

Initially famous in the U.K. for playing the gormless Barry in the first two series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, he has starred in films such as Secrets & Lies, Shooting the Past, Rock Star, The Last Samurai, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (in which he played Mr. Poe) most often playing good guys and trusted friends. He recently appeared as the slimy Peter Pettigrew ("Wormtail") in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

More recently he has been in the return of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and the BBC drama Mr. Harvey Lights a Candle.

In 1996 Spall was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia, but has been in remission for 10 years as of 2006. He has said of his illness:

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"I didn't know what made me ill but stress had something to do with it and the point is now to head off stress at the pass. It made me aware of things and become more selective. I am less worried about employment. I really do my homework so I am not getting stressed on the set because I don't know what I'm doing."

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On December 31st (New Year's Eve) he was named an officer of the British Empire.

Spall also had a memorable performance as Nick in the claymation film Chicken Run. He appeared in an episode of Red Dwarf entitled "Back to Reality". He voiced Phil Collins' manager in the 2006 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories Barry Mickelthwaite. The game was set in Vice City, in 1984.

He was a guest star on 'Top Gear' talking about the films he had done with Tom Cruise.^{[citation needed]}

He is married and has three children: Mercedes, (born 1985), Pascale (born 1976) and Rafe (born 1983), who is also an actor. He lives in Forest Hill a suburb of south-east London.

This list is incomplete. For the full list, please see the imdb.com page for Timothy Spall.

• Quadrophenia (1979) as Harry the Projectionist
• Gothic (1986) as Dr. Polidori
• Life Is Sweet (1990) as Aubrey, Regret Rien Owner
• The Sheltering Sky (1990) as Eric Lyle
• Secrets & Lies (1996) as Maurice Purley
• Hamlet (1996) as Rosencrantz
• Still Crazy (1998) as David 'Beano' Baggot
• Topsy-Turvy (1999) as Richard Temple
• Chicken Run (2000) as Nick
• Vanilla Sky (2001) as Thomas Tipp
• Rock Star (2001) as band manager
• Vacuuming Completely Nude In Paradise (2001, TV) as Tommy Rag
• All or Nothing (2002) as Phil
• The Last Samurai (2003) as Simon Graham
• Pierrepoint (2004) as Albert Pierrepoint
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) as Peter Pettigrew
• Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) as Mr. Poe
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) as Peter Pettigrew
• Enchanted (2007) as Nathaniel
• Sweeney Todd (2007) as Beadle Bamford
• Jackboots on Whitehall (2008) as Winston Churchill

• Timothy Spall at the Internet Movie Database