Tim Preece
Acting
1938-08-05 · Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK
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.
Filmography
Sitting in Limbo
2020 · Movie
A Prominent Patient
2017 · Movie
1066: A Year to Conquer England
2017 · Series
The Ghost Writer
2010 · Movie
The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
2009 · Movie
Monday Monday
2009 · Series
Bathory: Countess of Blood
2008 · Movie
The Ties That Bind Us
2008 · Movie
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007 · Movie
The Year London Blew Up
2005 · Movie
The Robinsons
2005 · Series
Vanity Fair
2004 · Movie
Peep Show
2003 · Series
Foyle's War
2002 · Series
Rescue Me
2002 · Series
The Wyvern Mystery
2000 · Movie
Attachments
2000 · Series
Plotlands
1997 · Series
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Series
The Legacy of Reginald Perrin
1996 · Series
'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter
1996 · Movie
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996 · Series
The Plant
1995 · Movie
Class Act
1994 · Series
Money For Nothing
1993 · Movie
A Year in Provence
1993 · Series
Virtual Murder
1992 · Series
The Law Lord
1992 · Movie
As Time Goes By
1992 · Series
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
1990 · Movie
Waiting for God
1990 · Series
The Chief
1990 · Series
Nice Work
1989 · Series
Take Me Home
1989 · Series
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · Series
God's Chosen Car Park
1986 · Movie
Casualty
1986 · Series
A Very Peculiar Practice
1986 · Series
Shadowlands
1985 · Movie
EastEnders
1985 · Series
Dempsey and Makepeace
1985 · Series
The Bill
1984 · Series
Pull The Other One
1984 · Series
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
1983 · Movie
Flying Into the Wind
1983 · Movie
Tales Out of School
1983 · Series
Red Monarch
1983 · Movie
The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
1983 · Movie
Brimstone & Treacle
1982 · Movie
The Bagthorpe Saga
1981 · Series
Too Close to the Edge
1980 · Movie
Father's Day
1979 · Movie
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
1976 · Series
Westway
1976 · Series
Machinegunner
1976 · Movie
Out of the Trees
1976 · Movie
Angels
1975 · Series
Diane
1975 · Movie
Funny Farm
1975 · Movie
Churchill's People
1974 · Series
Playhouse
1974 · Series
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
1973 · Movie
Crown Court
1972 · Series
Justice
1971 · Series
Play for Today
1970 · Series
Ivanhoe
1970 · Series
Crossplot
1969 · Movie
The Possessed
1969 · Movie
Present Laughter
1967 · Movie
Sword of Honour
1967 · Series
Don't Utter a Note
1966 · Movie
Mystery and Imagination
1966 · Series
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Series
Redcap
1964 · Series
Theatre 625
1964 · Series
Prisoner and Escort
1964 · Movie
Doctor Who
1963 · Series
24-Hour Call
1963 · Series
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Series