Tim Barlow est né le 18 janvier 1936 à Lancashire, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni. Il était acteur. Il est connu pour Hot Fuzz (2007), Les misérables (1998) et Automata (2014). Il est mort le 20 janvier 2023 au Royaume-Uni.
He was profoundly deaf, as result of an incident while testing a high-velocity rifle during his army service. In July 2008 he had a cochlear implant, enabling him to hear for the first time in over fifty years; he described his experience of the implant in a BBC Radio 4 programme "Earfull - From Silence into Sound".