Timothy Spall
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Timothy Spall OBE (born February 27, 1957) is an English actor from Battersea, London.
Biography
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. He recently appeared as the slimy Peter Pettigrew 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 moving BBC drama Mr. Harvey Lights a Candle.
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 is married and has three children Mercedes, Pascale and Rafe, who is also an actor.
Major films
- Quadrophenia (1979)
- Life Is Sweet (1990)
- Secrets & Lies (1996)
- Hamlet (1996)
- Still Crazy (1998)
- Topsy-Turvy (1999)
- Chicken Run (2000)
- Vanilla Sky (2001)
- The Last Samurai (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)
- Pierrepoint (2006)
- Enchanted (2007)
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