Timothy Spall - biography

“I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.”

“Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.”

“I know I work quite hard at making people like me.”

“I was always insecure about the way I looked.”

“I’m working class, and want people to know I’m not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.”

“It doesn’t bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let’s say that people wouldn’t aspire to be like them.”

“It’s an odd world.”

Timothy Spall has appeared in the following films:
The Life Story of Baal (1978)
Remembrance (1982)
The Missionary (1982)
Gothic (1986)
Body Contact (1987)
To Kill a Priest (1988)
Crusoe (1988)
1871 (1990)
Life Is Sweet (1990)
The Sheltering Sky (1990)
White Hunter Black Heart (1990)
Secrets & Lies (1996)
The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998)
Still Crazy (1998)
Topsy-Turvy (1999)
The Clandestine Marriage (1999)
Chicken Run (2000)
Vatel (2000)
Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000)
Intimacy (2001)
Vanilla Sky (2001)
Lucky Break (2001)
Rock Star (2001)
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001)
All or Nothing (2002)
Last Rumba in Rochdale (2003)
Gettin’ Square (2003)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Death Defying Acts (2007)
Enchanted (2007)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Appaloosa (2008)
The Wake Wood (2009)
The Damned United (2009)
Desert Flower (2009)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Heartless (2009)
From Time to Time (2009)
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Jackboots on Whitehall (2010)
Reuniting the Rubins (2010)