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.
75 acting credits
Acting · 75
Midsomer Murders
1997
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
EastEnders
1985
Doctor Who
1963
Casualty
1986
Play for Today
1970
Crown Court
1972
Playhouse
1974
Foyle's War
2002
The Bill
1984
Theatre 625
1964
Peep Show
2003
Justice
1971
Angels
1975
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996
The Chief
1990
As Time Goes By
1992
Dempsey and Makepeace
1985
Churchill's People
1974
Mystery and Imagination
1966
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
Waiting for God
1990
A Very Peculiar Practice
1986
Attachments
2000
Redcap
1964
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
1976
The Ghost Writer
2010
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007
Virtual Murder
1992
Rescue Me
2002
Tales Out of School
1983
Armchair Theatre
1956
Monday Monday
2009
Plotlands
1997
A Year in Provence
1993
Class Act
1994
1066: A Year to Conquer England
2017
Bathory: Countess of Blood
2008
The Legacy of Reginald Perrin
1996
Vanity Fair
2004
Nice Work
1989
Ivanhoe
1970
Sitting in Limbo
2020
The Wyvern Mystery
2000
Sword of Honour
1967
Brimstone & Treacle
1982
Take Me Home
1989
Machinegunner
1976
Crossplot
1969
Red Monarch
1983
A Prominent Patient
2017
The Ties That Bind Us
2008
24-Hour Call
1963
The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
1983
God's Chosen Car Park
1986
Shadowlands
1985
Pull The Other One
1984
The Plant
1995
The Law Lord
1992
Money For Nothing
1993
The Year London Blew Up
2005
'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter
1996
Diane
1975
Present Laughter
1967
Flying Into the Wind
1983
Don't Utter a Note
1966
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
1973
Out of the Trees
1976
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
1983
The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
2009
Funny Farm
1975
Prisoner and Escort
1964
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
1990
The Possessed
1969
Too Close to the Edge
1980