Tim Preece

Known for ActingBorn 1938-08-05 (age 88)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Tales Out of School

The Year London Blew Up

Plotlands

The Law Lord

The Possessed

Sword of Honour

24-Hour Call

Monday Monday

Agatha Christie's Poirot

A Very Peculiar Practice

Peep Show

Rescue Me

The Legacy of Reginald Perrin

Foyle's War

Flying Into the Wind

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

Prime Suspect

Present Laughter

Redcap

Doctor Who

As Time Goes By

Midsomer Murders

Waiting for God

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Shadowlands

Sitting in Limbo

Justice

Money For Nothing

Virtual Murder

The Ghost Writer

Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death

The Chief

Theatre 625

The Glamour Girls

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Westway

Diane

Playhouse

Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks

The Bill

Dempsey and Makepeace

Prisoner and Escort

Nice Work

The Robinsons

A Prominent Patient

Play for Today

Ivanhoe

Casualty