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"You've played a lot of fat slobs, haven't you?", asked Jonathan Ross when he invited Timothy Spall onto his chat show The Last Resort (Channel 4, 1987).
The rotund, jowly Spall could only agree, though his undoubted talent in that department belies a formidable range that has seen him quietly develop into one of the outstanding British character actors of the last two decades.
The son of a postman and a hairdresser, he was born in Battersea, south London, on 27 February 1957, and joined the National Youth Theatre in his teens after the acting bug bit during a performance as the Cowardly Lion in a school production of The Wizard of Oz.
After formal training at RADA, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1979, where he played in Shakespeare and Chekhov - his performances in the latter were preserved by the BBC (The Cherry Orchard, tx.
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13/10/1981) and Thames Television (The Three Sisters, tx. 29/12/1981) respectively. He had also appeared in experimental fil