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.
Known for
Midsomer Murders
Jack Wilson
Thirty-Minute Theatre
EastEnders
Consultant
Doctor Who
Codal
Play for Today
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Philips K.C.
Crown Court
Prof. Hubert Loomis
The Bill
Peep Show
Mr. Klugman
Casualty
Peter Gilchrist
As Time Goes By
Mr. Carter
Foyle's War
Angels
Dalziel & Pascoe
Dempsey and Makepeace
Psychiatrist
Justice
Frobisher
Waiting for God
Rev. Dennis Sparrow
Waiting for God
Rev. Dennis
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Old Throckmorton
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Mr Cavendish
My Uncle Silas
Goffy Windsor
Mystery and Imagination
The Ghost Writer
Roy
Attachments
David
The Legacy of Reginald Perrin
Monday Monday
Redcap
Bathory: Countess of Blood
Cardinal Forgách
Armchair Theatre
Hoskinson
Pull The Other One
Terry
Red Monarch
Lukov
1066: A Year to Conquer England
Edward the Confessor
Flying Into the Wind
Defence Counsel
A Prominent Patient
Sir Robert Vansittart
The Ties That Bind Us
Codal (archive footage)
Take Me Home
Ray
Brimstone & Treacle
Clergyman
Virtual Murder
Money For Nothing
Mr Derbyshire
The Year London Blew Up
John Matthews
God's Chosen Car Park
Johnny Gilmore
The Wyvern Mystery
Jim
The Plant
Alan
Shadowlands
Alan Gregg
Nice Work
Bob Busby
Plotlands
Mr. Clarke
Sitting in Limbo
Mr. Hardcastle
Machinegunner
Des
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
Codal
Vanity Fair
Horrocks
Diane
Terry
Out of the Trees
24-Hour Call
Mark Peters
The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
Present Laughter
Roland Maule
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Tom Patterson
Don't Utter a Note
Nick
The Possessed
Kirilov
Crossplot
Sebastian
Funny Farm
'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter
Self
Prisoner and Escort
Hoskinson
Ivanhoe
Prince John
Too Close to the Edge
Doctor