I was always insecure about the way I looked.

Career
Spall initially made his mark in theatre performing in productions for Birmingham Rep and later the Royal Shakespeare Company including The Merry Wives of Windsor Three Sisters Nicholas Nickleby and The Knight of the Burning Pestle. His brother Matthew is studio director of the computer games company Morpheme. Following a film debut in Quadrophenia and wider TV exposure playing the awkward Barry Taylor in all four series of Auf Wiedersehen Pet Kevin in Outside Edge and as Aubrey the appalling chef in Mike Leigh's Life is Sweet Spall has since appeared in films such as Crusoe Secrets & Lies Shooting the Past Topsy-Turvy Vanilla Sky Rock Star The Last Samurai Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and The King's Speech.

Timothy Leonard Spall OBE (born 27 February 1957) is an English character actor and occasional presenter. Some of his more high-profile roles include Peter Pettigrew in the Harry Potter film series Winston Churchill in the The King's Speech (2010) Peter Taylor in The Damned United (2009) Beadle Bamford in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) and his own documentary Timothy Spall: Back at Sea (2010–2012).