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.
Born: 05 August 1938
Played In
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
Waiting for God
Rev. Dennis
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
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Tom Patterson
Machinegunner
Des
Out of the Trees
Angels
Diane
Terry
Funny Farm
Churchill's People
Thryth
Playhouse
Terry
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
Codal
Crown Court
Prof. Hubert Loomis
Justice
Frobisher
Play for Today
Ivanhoe
Prince John
Crossplot
Sebastian
The Possessed
Kirilov
Present Laughter
Roland Maule
Sword of Honour
Trimmer
Don't Utter a Note
Nick
Mystery and Imagination
Earle
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Redcap
Corporal Scowler
Theatre 625
Valerius Catullus
Theatre 625
Louis Dillon
Theatre 625
Trimmer
Theatre 625
Harvey
Prisoner and Escort
Hoskinson
Doctor Who
Codal
24-Hour Call
Mark Peters
Armchair Theatre
Hoskinson
Armchair Theatre
Joe
Armchair Theatre
John