Timothy Spall
- English
- Actor
Press clippings Page 9
This unexpectedly moving one-off comedy drama, co-written by The Royle Family's Caroline Aherne, stars an excellent Timothy Spall as Georgie Godwin, a Rochdale man so obese he hasn't left his house in 15 years. He lives on pizzas and mask-delivered oxygen, and needs his hardened calves to be massaged regularly by his carer, Janice (Frances Barber). Keeping him in sausage rolls is his sprightly "manager", Morris Morrissey (a splendid Tommy Ball), who charges tourists to gawp at Godwin's 50-stone frame. With Aherne's ribald northern humour (even the banner outside Godwin's neighbour's house, "Happy 30th Nana", is funny), the drama manages to be touching and fearlessly forthright as well as amusing.
Robert Collins, The Telegraph, 19th December 2009Timothy Spall on The Fattest Man in Britain
Timothy Spall on his queasy experience playing the super-sized Georgie in ITV1's comedy drama The Fattest Man in Britain.
James Rampton, The Telegraph, 15th December 2009The Fattest Man In Britain
You could say it's the biggest role of Timothy Spall's career. Not to mention the hottest.
Ian Wylie, Manchester Evening News, 15th December 2009