Tim Preece
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 5, 1938 (age 88)
- Place of birth
- Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK
- Credits
- 80
Tim Preece (born 5 August 1938) is an English actor. He has appeared on British television since the 1960s and also acted on stage
Preece was born in Shrewsbury in Shropshire and was educated at the Priory Grammar School for Boys, Shrewsbury. He trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic.
In 1965, Preece was cast as Nipple in Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs by David Halliwell. He played the role in 1965 at the Dublin Theatre Festival, at the West End premiere opposite John Hurt in 1966, and later that fall in the Broadway premiere directed by Alan Arkin. He was the only original cast member to transfer to Broadway.
Preece's television roles include playing Codal in the six-part Doctor Who serial Planet of the Daleks (1973) and Tom Patterson in the first two series of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976–77). He later returned to the role for The Legacy Of Reginald Perrin (1996). He also appeared as the editor of a local newspaper in "The Journalist", an episode of People Like Us (2001) with Chris Langham. Preece played the recurring role of Rev. Sparrow in Waiting for God (1992–94).
His other television appearances include the Foyle's War episode "War Games" (2003) as James Philby, the pilot of a doomed holiday jet in the Casualty episode "Cascade" (1992), and as Mark's careers guidance counsellor and therapist in the Peep Show episode "Dream Job" (2003).
In 2017, Preece appeared in a Royal National Theatre production of the improvised play Lost Without Words.
Known for
Filmography
Sitting in Limbo
2020Movie
Mr. Hardcastle
A Prominent Patient
2017Movie
Sir Robert Vansittart
1066: A Year to Conquer England
2017TV
Edward the Confessor
The Ghost Writer
2010Movie
Roy
The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
2009Movie
Monday Monday
2009TV
Bathory: Countess of Blood
2008Movie
Cardinal Forgách
The Ties That Bind Us
2008Movie
Codal (archive footage)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007Movie
Old Throckmorton
The Year London Blew Up
2005Movie
John Matthews
The Robinsons
2005TV
Priest
Vanity Fair
2004Movie
Horrocks
Peep Show
2003TV
Mr. Klugman
Foyle's War
2002TV
Philby
Rescue Me
2002TV
Phil Partridge
The Wyvern Mystery
2000Movie
Jim
Attachments
2000TV
David
Plotlands
1997TV
Mr. Clarke
Midsomer Murders
1997TV
Jack Wilson
The Legacy of Reginald Perrin
1996TV
Tom Patterson
'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter
1996Movie
Self
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996TV
Mr Cavendish
The Plant
1995Movie
Alan
Class Act
1994TV
Bill Snape
Money For Nothing
1993Movie
Mr Derbyshire
A Year in Provence
1993TV
Harry
Virtual Murder
1992TV
Professor Wilbur Gutteridge
The Law Lord
1992Movie
Professor Hamer
As Time Goes By
1992TV
Mr. Carter
Prime Suspect
1991TV
AA Speaker
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
1990Movie
Wally
Waiting for God
1990TV
Rev. Dennis Sparrow, Rev. Dennis
The Chief
1990TV
The Dean
Nice Work
1989TV
Bob Busby
Take Me Home
1989TV
Ray
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989TV
Philips K.C.
God's Chosen Car Park
1986Movie
Johnny Gilmore
Casualty
1986TV
Peter Gilchrist
A Very Peculiar Practice
1986TV
Gregory
Shadowlands
1985Movie
Alan Gregg
EastEnders
1985TV
Consultant
Dempsey and Makepeace
1985TV
Psychiatrist
The Bill
1984TV
Pull The Other One
1984TV
Terry
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
1983Movie
Tom Patterson
Flying Into the Wind
1983Movie
Defence Counsel
Tales Out of School
1983TV
Defence Counsel
Red Monarch
1983Movie
Lukov
The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
1983Movie
Alfred Russel Wallace
Brimstone & Treacle
1982Movie
Clergyman
The Bagthorpe Saga
1981TV
Uncle Parker
The Glamour Girls
1980TV
Donald
Too Close to the Edge
1980Movie
Doctor
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
1976TV
Tom Patterson
Westway
1976TV
Graham Lawrence
Machinegunner
1976Movie
Des
Out of the Trees
1976Movie
Angels
1975TV
Diane
1975Movie
Terry
Funny Farm
1975Movie
Churchill's People
1974TV
Thryth
Playhouse
1974TV
Terry
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
1973Movie
Codal
Crown Court
1972TV
Prof. Hubert Loomis
Justice
1971TV
Frobisher
Play for Today
1970TV
Ivanhoe
1970TV
Prince John
Crossplot
1969Movie
Sebastian
The Possessed
1969Movie
Kirilov
Present Laughter
1967Movie
Roland Maule
Sword of Honour
1967TV
Trimmer
Don't Utter a Note
1966Movie
Nick
Mystery and Imagination
1966TV
Earle
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965TV
Redcap
1964TV
Corporal Scowler
Theatre 625
1964TV
Valerius Catullus, Louis Dillon, Trimmer, Harvey
Prisoner and Escort
1964Movie
Hoskinson
Doctor Who
1963TV
Codal
24-Hour Call
1963TV
Mark Peters
Armchair Theatre
1956TV
Hoskinson, Joe, John