Acting · Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK · Born August 5, 1938
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.
MovieSitting in Limbo
2020
as Mr. Hardcastle
MovieA Prominent Patient
2017
as Sir Robert Vansittart
TV1066: A Year to Conquer England
2017
as Edward the Confessor
MovieThe Ghost Writer
2010
as Roy
MovieThe Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
2009
TVMonday Monday
2009
MovieBathory: Countess of Blood
2008
as Cardinal Forgách
MovieThe Ties That Bind Us
2008
as Codal (archive footage)
MovieElizabeth: The Golden Age
2007
as Old Throckmorton
MovieThe Year London Blew Up
2005
as John Matthews
MovieVanity Fair
2004
as Horrocks
TVPeep Show
2003
as Mr. Klugman
TVFoyle's War
2002
as Philby
TVRescue Me
2002
as Phil Partridge
MovieThe Wyvern Mystery
2000
as Jim
Attachments
2000
as David
TVPlotlands
1997
as Mr. Clarke
TVMidsomer Murders
1997
as Jack Wilson
TVThe Legacy of Reginald Perrin
1996
Movie'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter
1996
as Self
TVHetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996
as Mr Cavendish
MovieThe Plant
1995
as Alan
TVClass Act
1994
as Bill Snape
MovieMoney For Nothing
1993
as Mr Derbyshire
TVA Year in Provence
1993
as Harry
TVVirtual Murder
1992
as Professor Wilbur Gutteridge
MovieThe Law Lord
1992
as Professor Hamer
TVAs Time Goes By
1992
as Mr. Carter
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
1990
as Wally
TVWaiting for God
1990
as Rev. Dennis Sparrow
TVThe Chief
1990
as The Dean
TVNice Work
1989
as Bob Busby
TVTake Me Home
1989
as Ray
TVAgatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Philips K.C.
God's Chosen Car Park
1986
as Johnny Gilmore
TVCasualty
1986
as Peter Gilchrist
TVA Very Peculiar Practice
1986
as Gregory
MovieShadowlands
1985
as Alan Gregg
TVEastEnders
1985
as Consultant
TVDempsey and Makepeace
1985
as Psychiatrist
TVThe Bill
1984
Pull The Other One
1984
as Terry
MovieThe Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
1983
as Tom Patterson
MovieFlying Into the Wind
1983
as Defence Counsel
TVTales Out of School
1983
as Defence Counsel
MovieRed Monarch
1983
as Lukov
MovieThe Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
1983
as Alfred Russel Wallace
MovieBrimstone & Treacle
1982
as Clergyman
The Bagthorpe Saga
1981
as Uncle Parker
Too Close to the Edge
1980
as Doctor
TVThe Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
1976
as Tom Patterson
Westway
1976
as Graham Lawrence
MovieMachinegunner
1976
as Des
MovieOut of the Trees
1976
TVAngels
1975
MovieDiane
1975
as Terry
MovieFunny Farm
1975
TVChurchill's People
1974
as Thryth
TVPlayhouse
1974
as Terry
MovieDoctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
1973
as Codal
TVCrown Court
1972
as Prof. Hubert Loomis
TVJustice
1971
as Frobisher
TVPlay for Today
1970
TVIvanhoe
1970
as Prince John
MovieCrossplot
1969
as Sebastian
MovieThe Possessed
1969
as Kirilov
MoviePresent Laughter
1967
as Roland Maule
Sword of Honour
1967
as Trimmer
Don't Utter a Note
1966
as Nick
TVMystery and Imagination
1966
as Earle
TVThirty-Minute Theatre
1965
TVRedcap
1964
as Corporal Scowler
TVTheatre 625
1964
as Valerius Catullus
Prisoner and Escort
1964
as Hoskinson
TVDoctor Who
1963
as Codal
24-Hour Call
1963
as Mark Peters
TVArmchair Theatre
1956
as Hoskinson
