
Tim Preece
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
Credits
- 2020 · Sitting in Limbo as Mr. Hardcastle
- 2017 · A Prominent Patient as Sir Robert Vansittart
- 2017 · 1066: A Year to Conquer England as Edward the Confessor
- 2010 · The Ghost Writer as Roy
- 2009 · The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams as
- 2009 · Monday Monday as
- 2008 · Bathory: Countess of Blood as Cardinal Forgách
- 2007 · Elizabeth: The Golden Age as Old Throckmorton
- 2005 · The Year London Blew Up as John Matthews
- 2004 · Vanity Fair as Horrocks
- 2003 · Peep Show as Mr. Klugman
- 2002 · Foyle's War as
- 2001 · My Uncle Silas as Goffy Windsor
- 2000 · The Wyvern Mystery as Jim
- 2000 · Attachments as David
- 1997 · Plotlands as Mr. Clarke
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Jack Wilson
- 1996 · The Legacy of Reginald Perrin as
- 1996 · 'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter as Self
- 1996 · Dalziel & Pascoe as
- 1996 · Hetty Wainthropp Investigates as Mr Cavendish
- 1995 · The Plant as Alan
- 1993 · Money For Nothing as Mr Derbyshire
- 1992 · Virtual Murder as
- 1992 · As Time Goes By as Mr. Carter
- 1990 · Waiting for God as Rev. Dennis Sparrow
- 1990 · Waiting for God as Rev. Dennis
- 1989 · Nice Work as Bob Busby
- 1989 · Take Me Home as Ray
- 1989 · Agatha Christie's Poirot as Philips K.C.
- 1986 · God's Chosen Car Park as Johnny Gilmore
- 1986 · Casualty as Peter Gilchrist
- 1985 · Shadowlands as Alan Gregg
- 1985 · EastEnders as Consultant
- 1985 · Dempsey and Makepeace as Psychiatrist
- 1984 · The Bill as
- 1984 · Pull The Other One as Terry
- 1983 · The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin as Tom Patterson
- 1983 · Flying Into the Wind as Defence Counsel
- 1983 · Red Monarch as Lukov
- 1983 · The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace as Alfred Russel Wallace
- 1982 · Brimstone & Treacle as Clergyman
- 1980 · Too Close to the Edge as Doctor
- 1976 · The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin as
- 1976 · Machinegunner as Des
- 1976 · Out of the Trees as
- 1975 · Angels as
- 1975 · Diane as Terry
- 1975 · Funny Farm as
- 1973 · Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks as Codal
- 1972 · Crown Court as Prof. Hubert Loomis
- 1971 · Justice as Frobisher
- 1970 · Play for Today as
- 1970 · Ivanhoe as Prince John
- 1969 · Crossplot as Sebastian
- 1969 · The Possessed as Kirilov
- 1967 · Present Laughter as Roland Maule
- 1966 · Don't Utter a Note as Nick
- 1966 · Mystery and Imagination as
- 1965 · Thirty-Minute Theatre as
- 1964 · Redcap as
- 1964 · Prisoner and Escort as Hoskinson
- 1963 · Doctor Who as Codal
- 1963 · 24-Hour Call as Mark Peters
- 1956 · Armchair Theatre as Hoskinson