Tim Preece
Acting • Born 1938-08-05
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.
Filmography
81 credits
The Ghost Writer
Movie • 2010
Roy
Vanity Fair
Movie • 2004
Horrocks
Brimstone & Treacle
Movie • 1982
Clergyman
'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter
Movie • 1996
Self
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Movie • 2007
Old Throckmorton
The Plant
Movie • 1995
Alan
Crossplot
Movie • 1969
Sebastian
The Wyvern Mystery
Movie • 2000
Jim
Funny Farm
Movie • 1975
God's Chosen Car Park
Movie • 1986
Johnny Gilmore
Too Close to the Edge
Movie • 1980
Doctor
Flying Into the Wind
Movie • 1983
Defence Counsel
Don't Utter a Note
Movie • 1966
Nick
Prisoner and Escort
Movie • 1964
Hoskinson
Out of the Trees
Movie • 1976
Diane
Movie • 1975
Terry
Bathory: Countess of Blood
Movie • 2008
Cardinal Forgách
The Possessed
Movie • 1969
Kirilov
Red Monarch
Movie • 1983
Lukov
Money For Nothing
Movie • 1993
Mr Derbyshire
The Year London Blew Up
Movie • 2005
John Matthews
Sitting in Limbo
Movie • 2020
Mr. Hardcastle
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
Movie • 1973
Codal
A Prominent Patient
Movie • 2017
Sir Robert Vansittart
Machinegunner
Movie • 1976
Des
Present Laughter
Movie • 1967
Roland Maule
The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
Movie • 1983
Alfred Russel Wallace
Shadowlands
Movie • 1985
Alan Gregg
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Movie • 1983
Tom Patterson
The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
Movie • 2009
The Ties That Bind Us
Movie • 2008
Codal (archive footage)
The Law Lord
Movie • 1992
Professor Hamer
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
Movie • 1990
Wally
As Time Goes By
TV • 1992
Mr. Carter
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Jack Wilson
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
TV • 1976
The Bill
TV • 1984
Dempsey and Makepeace
TV • 1985
Psychiatrist
Dalziel & Pascoe
TV • 1996
Virtual Murder
TV • 1992
Redcap
TV • 1964
Angels
TV • 1975
Play for Today
TV • 1970
EastEnders
TV • 1985
Consultant
24-Hour Call
TV • 1963
Mark Peters
Monday Monday
TV • 2009
Plotlands
TV • 1997
Mr. Clarke
Pull The Other One
TV • 1984
Terry
The Legacy of Reginald Perrin
TV • 1996
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV • 1965
Peep Show
TV • 2003
Mr. Klugman
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Codal
Take Me Home
TV • 1989
Ray
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Philips K.C.
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
TV • 1996
Mr Cavendish
Justice
TV • 1971
Frobisher
My Uncle Silas
TV • 2001
Goffy Windsor
Casualty
TV • 1986
Peter Gilchrist
1066: A Year to Conquer England
TV • 2017
Edward the Confessor
Waiting for God
TV • 1990
Rev. Dennis Sparrow
Waiting for God
TV • 1990
Rev. Dennis
Armchair Theatre
TV • 1956
Hoskinson
Crown Court
TV • 1972
Prof. Hubert Loomis
Nice Work
TV • 1989
Bob Busby
Attachments
TV • 2000
David
Ivanhoe
TV • 1970
Prince John
Foyle's War
TV • 2002
Philby
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Terry
Armchair Theatre
TV • 1956
Joe
The Chief
TV • 1990
The Dean
Class Act
TV • 1994
Bill Snape
Sword of Honour
TV • 1967
Trimmer
Rescue Me
TV • 2002
Phil Partridge
Tales Out of School
TV • 1983
Defence Counsel
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Valerius Catullus
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Louis Dillon
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Trimmer
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Harvey
A Very Peculiar Practice
TV • 1986
Gregory
Churchill's People
TV • 1974
Thryth
Mystery and Imagination
TV • 1966
Earle