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  • Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series 1 - Vol. 1 : Episodes 1-3
  • Rated - 3 stars Geordie comedy still makes us laugh 20 April 2005
    ..., but that aside, there is some touching moments, especially with the fantastic Timothy Spall as the hapless brummie, Barry. Thorougly enjoyable, although not sure the re...  
  • Shooting The Past
  • Shooting The Past review by from Hertfordshire
    Rated - 5 stars Shooting the past 16 May 2004
    ...nd the loss of it's 10 million pictures. An extremely powerful performance from Timothy Spall...  
  • Street, The - Series 1 - Complete
  • Street, The - Series 1 - Complete review by from Glasgow
    Rated - 5 stars Buy this! 25 January 2008
    ...ee Ingleby was exceptional. Found the Jim Broadbent one quite upsetting and the Timothy Spall story was lovely. ...  

Timothy Spall - filmography


  • The Fattest Man In Britain (2009)
    Starring: Timothy Spall,  Frances Barber,  Richard Riddell
    Director: David Blair
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Timothy Spall stars in this one-off ITV comedy drama written by Caroline Aherne and Jeff Pope. Georgie Godwin (Spall) is officially the Fattest Man in Britain. His agent, Morris Morrissey (Bobby Ball) is in charge of making sure that Georgie retains his title, and keeps the cash cow alive by ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • Street, The - Series 3 - Complete (2 discs) on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Timothy Spall,  Anna Friel,  Bob Hoskins
    Director: David Blair
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    From acclaimed writer Jimmy McGovern (Cracker, Hillsborough, Priest) The Street follows the lives and passions of neighbours in a North of England street. This BAFTA, RTS and International Emmy award winning drama sees Timothy Spall reprise his role and will be joined by an all new cast ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 77% from 33 members
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  • Death Defying Acts on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones,  Guy Pearce,  Timothy Spall
    Director: Gillian Armstrong
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Celebrated director Gillian Armstrong (MY BRILLIANT CAREER, LITTLE WOMEN) helms this film about Harry Houdini's romance with a con woman. In his attempts to contact his dead mother, the magician (Guy Pearce) meets a beautiful psychic (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who isn't all she appears.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 2,437 members
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  • Appaloosa on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Viggo Mortensen,  Renee Zellweger,  Ed Harris
    Director: Ed Harris
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When two gunmen, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, arrive in Appaloosa they find a small, dusty and lawless town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg. Bragg has not only taken supplies, horses and women for his own, but also has left the city marshal and a deputy for dead. In Bragg ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 11,853 members
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  • Enchanted on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Amy Adams,  Patrick Dempsey,  Susan Sarandon
    Director: Kevin Lima
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A classic Disney fairytale collides with modern-day New York City in a story about a fairytale princess (Amy Adams) from the past who is thrust into present-day by an evil queen (Susan Sarandon). Soon after her arrival, Princess Giselle begins to change her views on life and love after meeting a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 49,551 members
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  • Gettin' Square on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Sam Worthington,  David Wenham,  Timothy Spall
    Director: Jonathan Teplitzky
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Barry Whirth is fresh out of prison and determined to stay on the straight and narrow. But like his mate Johnny "Spit" Spiteri and reformed gangster turned restaurateur Dabba, he finds out the hard way that tere are old scores and a few new ones that'll make gettin' square a lot harder than he ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 857 members
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  • Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series 3 (2 discs) on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Kevin Whately,  Jimmy Nail,  Tim Healy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The original cast, apart from the late Gary Holton, of the classic comedy drama series is reunited over a decade after the last series. This time, Oz fakes his own funeral to bring the lads back together as he has a business proposal to put to them. What follows are the usual scrapes and skirmishes ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 1,596 member
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  • Vanilla Sky on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Penelope Cruz,  Penelope Cruz
    Director: Cameron Crowe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Director Cameron Crowe (JERRY MAGUIRE, ALMOST FAMOUS) teams up with Tom Cruise once again in an adaptation of Alejandro Amenabar's 1997 Spanish film OPEN YOUR EYES. Cruise plays David Aames, a playboy publisher leading a seemingly charmed life. His most recent playmate is his "friend" Julie Gianni (..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 18,773 members
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  • Intimacy (2001)
    Starring: Kerry Fox,  Mark Rylance,  Timothy Spall
    Director: Patrice Chereau
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A man wakes in mid-afternoon in a grungy London flat. A woman knocks at the door. He lets her in, to an awkward silence. She touches his face tenderly--almost immediately they have stripped and are making love on a mattress on the floor. It is the first of many intense, real-time, sexually-explicit,..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 2,489 members
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  • Vatel (2000)
    Starring: Gerard Depardieu,  Uma Thurman,  Tim Roth
    Director: Roland Joffe
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Set in 1671 France under the decadent reign of Louis XIV, VATEL charts the events of a three-day feast in an impoverished western province. In an effort to impress the gilded king and then ask him for financial support, Prince de Condé (Julian Glover) invites Louis XIV (Julian Sands) to his country ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 37 members
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  • Topsy-Turvy on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Jim Broadbent,  Allan Corduner,  Timothy Spall
    Director: Mike Leigh
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Director Mike Leigh's high-minded telling of the story of legendary musical team Gilbert & Sullivan is one of the director's most thorough, highly ambitious efforts. Concentrating mainly on the tumultuous period just before the conception and production of the pair's THE MIKADO (first staged in ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,812 member
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  • Still Crazy on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Stephen Rea,  Billy Connolly,  Jimmy Nail
    Director: Brian Gibson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A satire of 70's era rock-and-roll about the reunion of Strange Fruit, a band that probably shouldn't have formed in the first place. Connolly (MRS. BROWN), Mike Leigh regular Spall, British chart-topper Nail, and the always-reliable Rea round out a talented ensemble cast in this distinctly ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,667 member
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  • Neville's Island (1998)
    Starring: Timothy Spall,  Martin Clunes,  Jeff Rawle
    Director: Terry Johnson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. When four businessmen (Timothy Spall, Martin Clunes, Jeff Rawle, and David Bamber) embark on a team building trip, they end up stranded on an island with a dodgy mobile phone and ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 151 members
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  • Outside Edge - Series 3 (1996)
    Starring: Brenda Blethyn,  Robert Daws,  Josie Lawrence
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. Features the complete episodes from the third series of the television comedy, which follows the going-ons of a village cricket team, and the diverse individuals associated with ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 62 members
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  • Secrets And Lies (1996)
    Starring: Timothy Spall,  Brenda Blethyn,  Phyllis Logan
    Director: Mike Leigh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A successful career woman who has just buried her adoptive parents decides to search out her real mother. Nominated for 5 Oscars, winner of 3 BAFTA Awards and the winner of 'Best Film' at The Cannes Film Festival, Mike Leigh's hilarious, bittersweet comedy is an unmissable and moving slice of real ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 10,259 members
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  • Dutch Girls (1987)
    Starring: Bill Paterson,  Colin Firth,  Timothy Spall
    Director: Giles Foster
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A British hockey team heads for Holland where they find something far more interesting than tulips and windmills--gorgeous, lusty women. They are so busy pursuing romance that they forget all about their upcoming match.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 10 members
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  • Gothic on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Gabriel Byrne,  Julian Sands,  Natasha Richardson
    Director: Ken Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    An impromptu party on the picturesque shores of Lake Geneva in July 1816 leads to a ghoulish night of terror: a night which will ultimately inspire the writing of two great horror classics: Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' and Dr. Polidori's 'The Vampyre'. Exiles Lord Byron (Gabriel Byrne) and his ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 680 members
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  • Sunday For Sammy 2008
    Starring: Tim Healy,  Kevin Whately,  Timothy Spall
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Sunday for Sammy has now become established as the high-water mark in the North East's entertainment calendar. The 2008 event, staged at Newcastle City Hall on Sunday 8th February, featured a stellar cast of performers. Actors Tim Healy, Kevin Whately, Timothy Spall and Christopher Fairbank ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 3 members
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  • Death Defying Acts to Watch Now (2009)
    Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones,  Guy Pearce,  Timothy Spall
    Director: Gillian Armstrong
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
    Run time: 96 minutes
    When famous escape artist Harry Houdini arrives in Edinburgh and offers a $10,000 reward to anyone who can contact his mother from beyond the grave, a beautiful but deceptive psychic and her young ?sidekick' daughter take the challenge. As Houdini spends time with this mysterious woman, he is ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 43% from 3 members
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  • Vanilla Sky to Watch Now (2001)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Penélope Cruz,  Cameron Diaz
    Director: Cameron Crowe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 136 minutes
    The tale of a young New York City publishing magnate who finds himself on an unexpected roller-coaster ride of romance, comedy, suspicion, love, sex and dreams in a mind-bending search for his soul.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 94 members
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  • Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series 2, Episode ... to Watch Now (1986)
    Starring: Tim Healy,  Kevin Whately,  Jimmy Nail
    Director: Roger Bamford
    Certificate: Certificate: 12 (TBC)
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    Run time: 50 minutes
    Work at Thornley Manor is over and the lads take a break before leaving for Spain. Oz uses the opportunity to visit home and hits on the barmy idea of kidnapping his son, determined to prevent him from being taken overseas by wife Marjorie - but makes the mistake of roping Wayne in to help.
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 94% from 5 members
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  • Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series 2, Episode ... to Watch Now (1986)
    Starring: Tim Healy,  Kevin Whately,  Jimmy Nail
    Director: Roger Bamford
    Certificate: Certificate: 12 (TBC)
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    Run time: 50 minutes
    The boys have returned from Germany and gone their separate ways. Dennis has set up his own business, Oz has been to the Falklands and back, Neville is unemployed, Wayne has entered a disastrous marriage, Moxey has been in prison, and Bomber has returned to wrestling.
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 92% from 7 members
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  • Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series 2, Episode ... to Watch Now (1986)
    Starring: Tim Healy,  Kevin Whately,  Jimmy Nail
    Director: Roger Bamford
    Certificate: Certificate: 12 (TBC)
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    Run time: 50 minutes
    Barry finally announces his long-awaited wedding to Hazel is definitely going ahead and Oz secretly embarks on a romance of his own. Needless to say, Ally is concocting another dodgy scheme in the background and, as he puts it into operation, the lads sail off over the horizon.
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 86% from 6 members
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  • Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series 2, Episode ... to Watch Now (1986)
    Starring: Tim Healy,  Kevin Whately,  Jimmy Nail
    Director: Roger Bamford
    Certificate: Certificate: 12 (TBC)
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    Run time: 50 minutes
    The lads are impatient to be off to Spain, but just as they reach the departure lounge, things begin to go wrong. Posing as tourists, they find themselves sharing a plane with the Spennymoor and District Senior Citizens Society.
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 94% from 5 members
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  • Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series 2, Episode ... to Watch Now (1986)
    Starring: Tim Healy,  Kevin Whately,  Jimmy Nail
    Director: Roger Bamford
    Certificate: Certificate: 12 (TBC)
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    Run time: 50 minutes
    Plumber Harry Blackburn is mad about country and western music, and when he joins the boys Oz regales him with his tales of Nashville and Merle Haggard. The truth comes out about Dennis' debts and the lads all go on strike. Ally, annoyed to here of this sends in his toughest boys to sort them out. ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 88% from 7 members
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  • Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series 1, Episode ... to Watch Now (1984)
    Starring: Tim Healy,  Kevin Whately,  Jimmy Nail
    Director: Roger Bamford
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
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    Run time: 50 minutes
    Work on the site ends with a bang as Barry's bike explodes, demolishing the hut and destroying most of the lads' possessions. As the smoke subsides, the crew decides who will stay on in Germany and who will head for home
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 82% from 11 members
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  • Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series 1, Episode ... to Watch Now (1984)
    Starring: Tim Healy,  Kevin Whately,  Jimmy Nail
    Director: Baz Taylor
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
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    Run time: 50 minutes
    Oz finds love with a tasty German girl by the name of Uli after Wayne makes him out as being a rich tycoon's son. But it turns out he isn't the only one being dishonest. Meanwhile Barry comes up with an idea to make the hut more homely.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 84% from 10 members
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  • Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series 1, Episode ... to Watch Now (1984)
    Starring: Tim Healy,  Kevin Whately,  Jimmy Nail
    Director: Roger Bamford
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 50 minutes
    Dennis does his bit to cement Anglo-German relations by taking Dagmar for a quiet weekend away. Unfortunately for him, Wayne and Barry blunder in at the crucial moment and reduce his planned seduction to a building-site get-together.
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 91% from 7 members
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  • Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series 1, Episode ... to Watch Now (1984)
    Starring: Tim Healy,  Kevin Whately,  Jimmy Nail
    Director: Baz Taylor
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 50 minutes
    Oz comes up with an unlikely get-rich-quick scheme - smuggling porn videos back to Blighty inside a dead expatriate's coffin. Unfortunately for him, an unforeseen stop-off at the crematorium ruins his plans.
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 90% from 9 members
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  • Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series 1, Episode ... to Watch Now (1983)
    Starring: Tim Healy,  Kevin Whately,  Jimmy Nail
    Director: Roger Bamford
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 50 minutes
    The group arrives in Germany with hopes of high wages and bierkellers full of frauleins, but the truth is much harder to bear. Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais's popular comic drama following the fortunes of English builders seeking their fortune overseas.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 80% from 26 members
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  • Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series 1, Episode ... to Watch Now (1983)
    Starring: Tim Healy,  Kevin Whately,  Jimmy Nail
    Director: Roger Bamford
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
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    Run time: 50 minutes
    Neville is suspended for lying about being a joiner, but manages to redeem himself by averting a disaster on the site. He's not only reinstated by Herr Ulrich, but allowed to work as a bricklayer - which is bad news for Oz, who's sacked to make way for him.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 80% from 17 members
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Timothy Spall facts

5 most recent films

The Fattest Man In Britain - 3 stars
From Time to Time - 3.5 stars
Damned United, The - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
The Damned United - 4.0 stars
Street, The - Series 3 - Complete - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Street, The - Series 2 - Complete - 4.0 stars
Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series 2 - Vol. 4 : Episodes 10-13 - 4.0 stars
Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series 1 - Vol. 3 : Episodes 7-9 - 4.0 stars
Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series 1 - Vol. 1 : Episodes 1-3 - 4.0 stars
Shooting The Past - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Fattest Man In Britain - 3 stars
Dutch Girls - 2.5 stars
Sunday For Sammy 2008 - 2.5 stars
Vatel - 3.5 stars
Heartless - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jimmy Nail - 37 times - show films
Tim Healy - 37 times - show films
Kevin Whately - 37 times - show films
Christopher Fairbank - 35 times - show films
Gary Holton - 33 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Roger Bamford - 24 times - show films
none - 8 times - show films
David Blair - 7 times - show films
Mike Leigh - 7 times - show films
Baz Taylor - 5 times - show films


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