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J. Timothy Katzen, MD, Dr. Timothy Katzen, Beverly Hills Plastic... bodybykatzen.com |
Timothy Leonard Spall, OBE (born 27 February 1957) is a BAFTA award-nominated English actor and occasional presenter.
[edit] Early lifeSpall, third of four sons,[1] was born in Battersea, London; his father, Joe, was a postal worker, and his mother, Sylvia, a hairdresser.[2][3][4] He trained at the National Youth Theatre and RADA, where he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal as the most promising actor in his year. His brother, Matthew, is studio director of the computer games company Morpheme. [edit] CareerInitially notable in the UK for playing the gormless Barry Taylor in all four series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet alongside actors such as Jimmy Nail, Kevin Whately, Christopher Fairbank and Christine Garner[5] and Kevin in Outside Edge alongside Robert Daws and Josie Lawrence, he has since starred in films such as Crusoe, Secrets & Lies, Shooting the Past, Rock Star, The Last Samurai, and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. He gained international recognition as Peter Pettigrew ("Wormtail") in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. In 1991 he guest starred in the series 5 Red Dwarf episode Back to Reality. Spall played the starring role of Albert Pierrepoint in the 2005 film Pierrepoint, which was released as The Last Hangman in the United States. In the 2006 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, Spall voiced Phil Collins' manager, Barry Mickelthwaite. In 2007, he starred as Nathaniel in Disney's Enchanted and Beadle Bamford in Tim Burton's production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. On 31 December 1999, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).[6] [edit] Personal lifeSpall is married and has three children: Mercedes, (born 1985), Pascale (born 1976) and Rafe (born 1983), who is also an actor. He lives in a large house in Forest Hill[7] a suburb of south-east London.[8] In 1996, Spall was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, but has since been in remission.[9] He has said of his illness:
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