Timothy Leonard Spall is a British character actor and occasional presenter. He became a household name in the UK after appearing as Barry Spencer Taylor in the 1983 ITV comedy-drama series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
Spall received critical acclaim for his performance in Secrets & Lies, for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Subsequently, he starred in supporting roles, including Inspector Healey in Immortality also known as The Wisdom of Crocodiles with Jude Law , Kerry Fox, Jack Davenport and Ashley Artus, Simon Graham in The Last Samurai, Peter Pettigrew in the Harry Potter film series, Albert Pierrepoint in Pierrepoint, Beadle Bamford in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Peter Taylor in The Damned United, and Winston Churchill in The King's Speech.