Timothy Spall
Acting Born 1957 Battersea, London, England, UK
197 credits
Timothy Leonard Spall (born February 27, 1957) is an English actor and 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 performed in Secrets & Lies (1996), and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Subsequently, he starred in many films, including Hamlet (1996), Still Crazy (1998), Nicholas Nickleby (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), Enchanted (2007), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), The Damned United (2009), The King's Speech (2010), Ginger and Rosa (2012), Denial (2016), and The Party (2017). He voiced Nick, a cynical, portly rat in Chicken Run (2000). He played Peter Pettigrew in five Harry Potter films, from Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) to Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010). Spall has collaborated with director Mike Leigh, making six films together: Home Sweet Home (1982), Life is Sweet (1990), Secrets & Lies (1996), Topsy-Turvy (1999), All or Nothing (2002), and Mr. Turner (2014). Spall won great acclaim for his performance in the last of these for his portrayal as J. M. W. Turner winning him the Best Actor Award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. He starred in the television documentary Timothy Spall: ...at Sea (2010–2012) and in 2019 he appeared as Lord Arthur Wallington in the 6-part BBC Cold War drama Summer of Rockets. Read the full biography
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Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
2026
as Terence Hilbery
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Hamlet
2026
as Polonius
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Goodbye June
2025
as Bernie
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Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
2025
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Series Death Valley
2025
as John Chapel
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Rich Flu
2024
as Sebastian Snail Sr.
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Wicked Little Letters
2024
as Edward Swan
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The Heist Before Christmas
2023
as Santa
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Bolan's Shoes
2023
as Jimmy
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Northern Comfort
2023
as Edward
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Series The Sixth Commandment
2023
as Peter Farquhar
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The Pale Blue Eye
2022
as Superintendent Thayer
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193 credits
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Hamlet
2026
as Polonius
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Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
2026
as Terence Hilbery
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Death Valley
2025
as John Chapel
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Goodbye June
2025
as Bernie
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Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
2025
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Rich Flu
2024
as Sebastian Snail Sr.
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Wicked Little Letters
2024
as Edward Swan
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Bolan's Shoes
2023
as Jimmy
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Northern Comfort
2023
as Edward
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The Heist Before Christmas
2023
as Santa
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The Sixth Commandment
2023
as Peter Farquhar
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Series Remembers…
2022
as Self
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Series Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
as Self – Actor
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The Pale Blue Eye
2022
as Superintendent Thayer
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This Is Christmas
2022
as Ray
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Spencer
2021
as Major Alistair Gregorys
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The Grand Duke Of Corsica
2021
as Alfred Rott
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The Last Bus
2021
as Tom
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Grizzly II: Revenge
2020
as Rob (uncredited)
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It Snows in Benidorm
2020
as Peter Riordan
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Series Hatton Garden
2019
as Terry Perkins
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Mrs Lowry & Son
2019
as L.S. Lowry
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Series Perpetual Grace LTD
2019
as Donald DeLoash
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Series Summer of Rockets
2019
as Lord Arthur Wallington
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The Corrupted
2019
as Clifford Cullen
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This Time Away
2019
as Nigel
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Early Man
2018
as Chief Bobnar (voice)
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Finding Your Feet
2017
as Charlie Glover
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Series Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
2017
as Ed Jacobson
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The Changeover
2017
as Carmody Braque
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The Journey
2017
as Ian Paisley
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The Party
2017
as Bill
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
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Away
2016
as Joseph
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Denial
2016
as David Irving
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Stanley, a Man of Variety
2016
as Stanley/Stanley's Father/Stanley's Mother/Tony Hancock/Peter Sellers aka Dr Boob/George Formby/James Finlayson/Max Wall/Alistair Sim/Margaret Rutherford/Frank Randle/Max Miller/Noel Coward/Igor
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A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
2015
as Self / Nick
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Cider with Rosie
2015
as Laurie Lee (voice)
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Series Fungus the Bogeyman
2015
as Fungus
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Fungus The Bogeyman
2015
as Fungus
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Sucker
2015
as The Professor
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Series The Enfield Haunting
2015
as Maurice Grosse
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Series Wolf Hall
2015
as Duke of Norfolk
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9 Kisses
2014
as Bartender
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Mr. Turner
2014
as JMW Turner
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The Love Punch
2014
as Jerry
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The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014
as Self
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Series Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
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Back with the Boys Again
2013
as Himself
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Series Blandings
2013
as Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
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Assassin's Bullet
2012
as Dr. Kahn
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Boy
2012
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Comes a Bright Day
2012
as Charlie
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Ginger & Rosa
2012
as Mark
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London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music
2012
as Winston Churchill
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Series London 2012 Olympic Games
2012
as Self
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Love Bite
2012
as Sid
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Room on the Broom
2012
as Dragon (voice)
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The Rise
2012
as D I West
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Series The Syndicate
2012
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Series Timothy Spall: All at Sea
2012
as Himself
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Upside Down
2012
as Bob Boruchowitz
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Peter Pettigrew
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My Angel
2011
as Mr. Lambert
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Reuniting the Rubins
2011
as Lennie Rubin
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Series Timothy Spall: Back At Sea
2011
as Himself
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Wake Wood
2011
as Arthur
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Alice in Wonderland
2010
as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Peter Pettigrew
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Heartless
2010
as George Morgan
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Jackboots on Whitehall
2010
as Churchill (voice)
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The King's Speech
2010
as Winston Churchill
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Series Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
2010
as Himself
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Series 10 Minute Tales
2009
as Man
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Desert Flower
2009
as Terry Donaldson
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From Time to Time
2009
as Boggis
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Gunrush
2009
as Doug Becket
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
as Peter Pettigrew
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The Damned United
2009
as Peter Taylor
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The Fattest Man in Britain
2009
as Georgie Godwin
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Appaloosa
2008
as Phil Olson
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A Room with a View
2008
as Mr Emerson
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A Room with a View
2007
as Mr Emerson
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Series British Film Forever
2007
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Death Defying Acts
2007
as Sugarman
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Enchanted
2007
as Nathaniel
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
as Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
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Series Oliver Twist
2007
as Fagin
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007
as Beadle
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Series The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
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Mysterious Creatures
2006
as Bill Ainscow
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Teenage Tourettes Camp
2006
as Narrator
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Series The One Show
2006
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The One Show
2006
as Self
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Series The Street
2006
as Eddie McEvoy
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Cherished
2005
as Terry Cannings
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
as Wormtail
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Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
2005
as Malcolm Harvey
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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
2005
as Albert Pierrepoint
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
as Peter Pettigrew
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004
as Mr. Poe
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Gettin' Square
2003
as Darren Barrington
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My House in Umbria
2003
as Quinty
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One Life
2003
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The Last Samurai
2003
as Simon Graham
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All or Nothing
2002
as Phil
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Series Bodily Harm
2002
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Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
2002
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Nicholas Nickleby
2002
as Charles Cheeryble
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Series Top Gear
2002
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Intimacy
2001
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Ivor the Invisible
2001
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Lucky Break
2001
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Series Perfect Strangers
2001
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Rock Star
2001
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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001
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Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
2001
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Vanilla Sky
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as Thomas Tipp
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Chicken Run
2000
as Nick (voice)
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Love's Labour's Lost
2000
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Rough for Theatre II
2000
as B
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
2000
as Cunningham
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The Thing about Vince
2000
as Vince Skinner
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Vatel
2000
as Gourville
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Series Shooting the Past
1999
as Oswald Bates
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The Clandestine Marriage
1999
as Sterling
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Topsy-Turvy
1999
as Richard Temple (The Mikado)
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Immortality
1998
as Inspector Healey
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Neville's Island
1998
as Gordon
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Series Our Mutual Friend
1998
as Mr Venus
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Series Parkinson
1998
as Self
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Still Crazy
1998
as David "Beano" Baggot
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Series The Hunger
1997
as Salesman
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The Swords
1997
as Salesman
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Hamlet
1996
as Rosencrantz
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Secrets & Lies
1996
as Maurice Purley
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Jeremy Hardy Gives Good Sex
1995
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Nice Day at the Office
1994
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Series Outside Edge
1994
as Kevin Costello
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The Danny Baker Show
1994
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Series Frank Stubbs Promotes
1993
as Frank Stubbs
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Dread Poets' Society
1992
as Derek
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Roots
1992
as Jimmy Beales
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Series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
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Broke
1991
as Francis Meeks
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Life Is Sweet
1991
as Aubrey
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Series Murder Most Horrid
1991
as Pathologist
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Nona
1991
as Chico
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Not Mozart: WAM! Limited
1991
as Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart
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Pebble Mill
1991
as Self
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Series Performance
1991
as Jimmy Beales
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Performance
1991
as Chico
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Series Spender
1991
as Robert Cunningham
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1871
1990
as Ramborde
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The Sheltering Sky
1990
as Eric Lyle
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The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
as Pig Robinson
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White Hunter, Black Heart
1990
as Hodkins
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Crusoe
1989
as Reverend Milne
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David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
as Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)
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Dream Demon
1988
as Peck
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Journey's End
1988
as Lt. Trotter
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Series Red Dwarf
1988
as Andy
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Series The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
as Porfiry
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Series This Morning
1988
as Self - Guest
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To Kill a Priest
1988
as Igor
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Body Contact
1987
as Paul
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Gothic
1987
as Dr. Polidori
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Series ScreenPlay
1986
as Derek
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ScreenPlay
1986
as Francis Meeks
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A Crack in the Ice
1985
as Pte. Postnikov
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Dutch Girls
1985
as Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
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The Bride
1985
as Paulus
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Series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
1983
as Barry Taylor
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A Cotswold Death
1982
as Detective Sergeant Baxter
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Home Sweet Home
1982
as Gordon
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Oliver Twist
1982
as 1st Constable
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Remembrance
1982
as Douglas
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The Missionary
1982
as Parswell
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Say No to Strangers
1981
as Stranger
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The Cherry Orchard
1981
as Epikhodov
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The Three Sisters
1981
as Andrei
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S.O.S. Titanic
1980
as Jim (uncredited)
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Quadrophenia
1979
as Projectionist
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The Brylcreem Boys
1979
as Shorty
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The Life Story of Baal
1978
as Lupu
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The Vanishing Army
1978
as Wainwright
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Series BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
as Wainwright
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Series Playhouse
1974
as Shorty
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Film '72
1971
as Self
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Series Play for Today
1970
as Gordon
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Play for Today
1970
as Detective Sergeant Baxter
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Murdering Michael Malloy
as Michael Malloy
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Death Valley
2025
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The Last Bus
2021
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Late in Summer
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Stanley, a Man of Variety
2016
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