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