Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 05, 1938
Place of Birth
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK
Credits
78 titles
Tim Preece
Biography
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
Mr. Hardcastle
A Prominent Patient
Sir Robert Vansittart
1066: A Year to Conquer England
Edward the Confessor
The Ghost Writer
Roy
The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
Monday Monday
Bathory: Countess of Blood
Cardinal Forgách
The Ties That Bind Us
Codal (archive footage)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Old Throckmorton
The Year London Blew Up
John Matthews
Vanity Fair
Horrocks
Peep Show
Mr. Klugman
Foyle's War
Philby
Rescue Me
Phil Partridge
The Wyvern Mystery
Jim
Attachments
David
Plotlands
Mr. Clarke
Midsomer Murders
Jack Wilson
The Legacy of Reginald Perrin
'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter
Self
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Mr Cavendish
The Plant
Alan
Class Act
Bill Snape
Money For Nothing
Mr Derbyshire
A Year in Provence
Harry
Virtual Murder
Professor Wilbur Gutteridge
The Law Lord
Professor Hamer
As Time Goes By
Mr. Carter
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
Wally
Waiting for God
Rev. Dennis Sparrow
The Chief
The Dean
Nice Work
Bob Busby
Take Me Home
Ray
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Philips K.C.
God's Chosen Car Park
Johnny Gilmore
Casualty
Peter Gilchrist
A Very Peculiar Practice
Gregory
Shadowlands
Alan Gregg
EastEnders
Consultant
Dempsey and Makepeace
Psychiatrist
The Bill
Pull The Other One
Terry
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Tom Patterson
Flying Into the Wind
Defence Counsel
Tales Out of School
Defence Counsel
Red Monarch
Lukov
The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
Brimstone & Treacle
Clergyman
The Bagthorpe Saga
Uncle Parker
Too Close to the Edge
Doctor