Tim Preece
Born: 1938-08-05 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2020
- Sitting in Limbo as Mr. Hardcastle
2017
- A Prominent Patient as Sir Robert Vansittart
- 1066: A Year to Conquer England as Edward the Confessor
2010
- The Ghost Writer as Roy
2009
2008
- Bathory: Countess of Blood as Cardinal Forgách
- The Ties That Bind Us as Codal (archive footage)
2007
- Elizabeth: The Golden Age as Old Throckmorton
2005
- The Year London Blew Up as John Matthews
2004
- Vanity Fair as Horrocks
2003
- Peep Show as Mr. Klugman
2002
- Foyle's War as Philby
- Rescue Me as Phil Partridge
2001
- My Uncle Silas as Goffy Windsor
2000
- The Wyvern Mystery as Jim
- Attachments as David
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Jack Wilson
- Plotlands as Mr. Clarke
1996
1995
- The Plant as Alan
1994
- Class Act as Bill Snape
1993
- Money For Nothing as Mr Derbyshire
1992
- As Time Goes By as Mr. Carter
- The Law Lord as Professor Hamer
- Virtual Murder
1990
- Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death as Wally
- The Chief as The Dean
- Waiting for God as Rev. Dennis Sparrow
1989
- Agatha Christie's Poirot as Philips K.C.
- Nice Work as Bob Busby
- Take Me Home as Ray
1986
- Casualty as Peter Gilchrist
- A Very Peculiar Practice as Gregory
- God's Chosen Car Park as Johnny Gilmore
1985
- EastEnders as Consultant
- Dempsey and Makepeace as Psychiatrist
- Shadowlands as Alan Gregg
1984
- The Bill
- Pull The Other One as Terry
1983
- Red Monarch as Lukov
- Flying Into the Wind as Defence Counsel
- Tales Out of School as Defence Counsel
- The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin as Tom Patterson
- The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace as Alfred Russel Wallace
1982
- Brimstone & Treacle as Clergyman
1980
- Too Close to the Edge as Doctor
1979
- Father's Day ... (Writer)
1975
- Angels
- Diane as Terry
- Funny Farm
1974
- Playhouse as Terry
- Churchill's People as Thryth
1973
- Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks as Codal
1972
- Crown Court as Prof. Hubert Loomis
1971
- Justice as Frobisher
1970
- Play for Today
- Ivanhoe as Prince John
1969
- Crossplot as Sebastian
- The Possessed as Kirilov
1967
- Sword of Honour as Trimmer
- Present Laughter as Roland Maule
1966
1964
- Theatre 625 as Valerius Catullus
- Redcap
- Prisoner and Escort as Hoskinson
1963
- Doctor Who as Codal
- 24-Hour Call as Mark Peters
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Hoskinson