# Tim McMullan

Timothy W. V. McMullan (born 1963) is a British actor, notable for his stage, television and film work. He is best known for playing Atticus Pünd in the BBC mystery dramas Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders.

## Career

McMullan's stage work includes a 2008 adaptation of The Misanthrope alongside Damian Lewis and Keira Knightley along with the 2003 adaptation of His Dark Materials. In 2009 he was in Dominic Dromgoole's Shakespeare's Globe production of As You Like It and worked for Complicite. In 2016, again for Dromgoole, he was Prospero in The Tempest at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
In 2017 McMullan played Sir Toby Belch in a production of Twelfth Night on the Olivier stage at the Royal National Theatre.
In July 2020 Deadline announced that PBS' Masterpiece would adapt Anthony Horowitz's Magpie Murders novel into a six-part drama series and air it in the US, and on BritBox in the UK. Horowitz prepared the script and Masterpiece produced the series along with Jill Green and Eleventh Hour Films. McMullan was signed to portray the character of Atticus Pünd after actor Timothy Spall pulled out of the production due to scheduling issues.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1993 | Shadowlands | Nick Farrell | |
| 1994 | Being Human | Deserter | |
| 1995 | Princess Caraboo | Light Fingered Aristocrat | |
| 1995 | Complicite: The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol | Henri Cabrol | |
| 1997 | The Fifth Element | Scientist's Aide | |
| 1997 | Robinson Crusoe | Crusoe's Second | |
| 1997 | Caught in the Act | Pip | |
| 1998 | Dangerous Beauty | Zealot | |
| 1998 | Shakespeare in Love | Frees | |
| 1999 | Plunkett & Macleane | Bridegroom | |
| 1999 | Onegin | Dandy 1 | |
| 2000 | Eisenstein | Rak | |
| 2002 | Two Men Went to War | Military Policeman on train | |
| 2006 | The Queen | Stephen Lamport | |
| 2010 | Shakespeare's Globe: As You Like It | Jaques | |
| 2011 | National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard | Siminov-Pischik | |
| 2012 | The Woman in Black | Mr. Jerome | |
| 2015 | National Theatre Live: Man and Superman | Mendoza / The Devil | |
| 2017 | National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night | Sir Toby Belch | |
| 2017 | Victoria & Abdul | Tailor | |
| 2018 | Willy and the Guardians of the Lake | King | Voice |
| 2018 | National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra | Enobarbus | |
| 2019 | Vic the Viking and the Magic Sword | Sven | Voice |
| 2021 | Cyrano | Jodelet | |
| 2022 | Enola Holmes 2 | Charles McIntyre | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1993 | Stalag Luft | Donaldson | Television film |
| 1994 | The Wimbledon Poisoner | Sebastian Williams | 2 episodes |
| 1995 | Performance | Sir Walter Blunt | Episode: "Henry IV" |
| 1998 | Heat of the Sun | Franz-Dietrich Gessler | Episode: "Private Lives" |
| 2002 | Surrealissimo: The Scandalous Success of Salvador Dali | Press Man | Television film |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures | Pharmacist | Television film |
| 2006 | Pinochet's Last Stand | Di Parfrey | Television film |
| 2007 | Trial & Retribution | Brooks | 2 episodes |
| 2008 | Sense and Sensibility | Mr Palmer | 2 episodes |
| 2008 | Mutual Friends | Consultant | Episode #1.4 |
| 2009 | Margaret | William Waldegrave | Television film |
| 2010 | The Great Outdoors | Farmer | Episode #1.2 |
| 2010 | Devil in the Fog | Mr. Treet | 2 episodes |
| 2012 | Silk | Judge Hoyle | Episode #2.2 |
| 2012 | The Hollow Crown | Silence | Episode: "Henry IV, Part 2" |
| 2012 | Parade's End | Stephen Waterhouse | 2 episodes |
| 2013 | Elementary | DCI Hopkins | Episode: "Step Nine" |
| 2013 | Fifty Years on Stage | Flagg | Television film |
| 2013–2015 | Foyle's War | Arthur Valentine | 6 episodes |
| 2014 | Endeavour | Mr. Brian Quinbury | Episode: "Sway" |
| 2015 | The Go-Between | Butler | Television film |
| 2016 | Grantchester | Professor Raban | Episode #2.2 |
| 2016 | Doctor Thorne | Earl de Courcy | 4 episodes |
| 2016 | The Witness for the Prosecution | Sir Hugo Meredith | 2 episodes |
| 2017 | King Charles III | James Reiss | Television film |
| 2017 | Fearless | David Nolenn | 2 episodes |
| 2018 | Patrick Melrose | Sonny Gravesend | Episode: "Some Hope" |
| 2019 | Brexit: The Uncivil War | Bernard Jenkin | Television film |
| 2019 | The Crown | Robin Woods | Episode: "Moondust" |
| 2021 | The Serpent | Douglas Cartwright | 2 episodes |
| 2022 | Magpie Murders | Atticus Pünd | 6 episodes |
| 2024 | Moonflower Murders | Atticus Pünd | 6 episodes |