Timothy Dingwall Bateson (3 April 1926 – 15 September 2009) was an English actor.

[1] Born in London, the son of solicitor Dingwall Latham Bateson and the great-nephew of rugby player Harold Dingwall Bateson, he was educated at Lockers Park School in Hertfordshire,[2] Uppingham School in Rutland and Wadham College, Oxford.

He appeared in many film, television and radio productions including The Avengers, The Cadfael Chronicles, Doctor Who (in the serial entitled "The Ribos Operation") and Labyrinth.

He voiced the house-elf Kreacher in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, his last work.

[4] In 1953, Bateson married former actress Sheila Shand Gibbs, with whom he had three children, Elizabeth, Andrew and Caroline.