Tim Preece
Acting
Born 1938-08-05
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK
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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.
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Acting
53 credits
Midsomer Murders
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Doctor Who
EastEnders
Casualty
Crown Court
Foyle's War
Playhouse
Theatre 625
Peep Show
Dempsey and Makepeace
Justice
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
As Time Goes By
Churchill's People
The Chief
Mystery and Imagination
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Waiting for God
The Ghost Writer
Redcap
Attachments
Vanity Fair
A Very Peculiar Practice
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
A Year in Provence
The Robinsons
Virtual Murder
Rescue Me
Class Act
Nice Work
Bathory: Countess of Blood
Tales Out of School
Westway
Plotlands
1066: A Year to Conquer England
Crossplot
Armchair Theatre
Sword of Honour
Ivanhoe
Red Monarch
The Ties That Bind Us
Machinegunner
A Prominent Patient
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
Take Me Home
The Bagthorpe Saga
The Law Lord
The Wyvern Mystery
Pull The Other One
Sitting in Limbo
24-Hour Call
God's Chosen Car Park
Other credits
7 credits
Play for Today
The Bill
Angels
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Monday Monday
The Legacy of Reginald Perrin
Out of the Trees
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