Tim Preece
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 5, 1938 (age 88)
- Birthplace
- Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK
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
Movie · as Mr. Hardcastle
A Prominent Patient
Movie · as Sir Robert Vansittart
1066: A Year to Conquer England
TV · as Edward the Confessor · 3 eps
The Ghost Writer
Movie · as Roy
The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
Movie
Monday Monday
TV · 1 ep
Bathory: Countess of Blood
Movie · as Cardinal Forgách
The Ties That Bind Us
Movie · as Codal (archive footage)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Movie · as Old Throckmorton
The Year London Blew Up
Movie · as John Matthews
The Robinsons
TV · as Priest · 1 ep
Vanity Fair
Movie · as Horrocks
Peep Show
TV · as Mr. Klugman · 1 ep
Foyle's War
TV · as Philby · 1 ep
Rescue Me
TV · as Phil Partridge · 1 ep
The Wyvern Mystery
Movie · as Jim
Attachments
TV · as David · 3 eps
Midsomer Murders
TV · as Jack Wilson · 1 ep
Plotlands
TV · as Mr. Clarke · 6 eps
'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter
Movie · as Self
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
TV · as Mr Cavendish · 1 ep
The Legacy of Reginald Perrin
TV · as Tom Patterson · 7 eps
The Plant
Movie · as Alan
Class Act
TV · as Bill Snape · 1 ep
Money For Nothing
Movie · as Mr Derbyshire
A Year in Provence
TV · as Harry · 2 eps
The Law Lord
Movie · as Professor Hamer
As Time Goes By
TV · as Mr. Carter · 1 ep
Virtual Murder
TV · as Professor Wilbur Gutteridge · 1 ep
Prime Suspect
TV · as AA Speaker · 2 eps
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
Movie · as Wally
Waiting for God
TV · as Rev. Dennis Sparrow · 4 eps
The Chief
TV · as The Dean · 1 ep
Take Me Home
TV · as Ray · 3 eps
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV · as Philips K.C. · 1 ep
Nice Work
TV · as Bob Busby · 2 eps
God's Chosen Car Park
Movie · as Johnny Gilmore
Casualty
TV · as Peter Gilchrist · 1 ep
A Very Peculiar Practice
TV · as Gregory · 1 ep
Shadowlands
Movie · as Alan Gregg
Dempsey and Makepeace
TV · as Psychiatrist · 1 ep
EastEnders
TV · as Consultant · 1 ep
The Bill
TV · 2 eps
Pull The Other One
TV · as Terry · 6 eps
Flying Into the Wind
Movie · as Defence Counsel
Red Monarch
Movie · as Lukov
The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
Movie · as Alfred Russel Wallace
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Movie · as Tom Patterson
Tales Out of School
TV · as Defence Counsel · 1 ep
Brimstone & Treacle
Movie · as Clergyman
The Bagthorpe Saga
TV · as Uncle Parker · 4 eps
Too Close to the Edge
Movie · as Doctor
The Glamour Girls
TV · as Donald · 2 eps
Out of the Trees
Movie
Machinegunner
Movie · as Des
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
TV · as Tom Patterson · 7 eps
Westway
TV · as Graham Lawrence · 5 eps
Funny Farm
Movie
Diane
Movie · as Terry
Angels
TV · 1 ep
Playhouse
TV · as Terry · 1 ep
Churchill's People
TV · as Thryth · 1 ep
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
Movie · as Codal
Crown Court
TV · as Prof. Hubert Loomis · 1 ep
Justice
TV · as Frobisher · 1 ep
Play for Today
TV · 1 ep
Ivanhoe
TV · as Prince John · 5 eps
Crossplot
Movie · as Sebastian
The Possessed
Movie · as Kirilov
Present Laughter
Movie · as Roland Maule
Sword of Honour
TV · as Trimmer · 2 eps
Don't Utter a Note
Movie · as Nick
Mystery and Imagination
TV · as Earle · 1 ep
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV · 1 ep
Prisoner and Escort
Movie · as Hoskinson
Theatre 625
TV · as Valerius Catullus, Louis Dillon, Trimmer, Harvey · 1 ep
Redcap
TV · as Corporal Scowler · 1 ep
24-Hour Call
TV · as Mark Peters · 1 ep
Doctor Who
TV · as Codal · 6 eps
Armchair Theatre
TV · as Hoskinson, Joe, John · 1 ep