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
all 66
TV Shows 36
Movies 30
self 1
Writer 1

Sitting in Limbo (2020)

A Prominent Patient (2017)

1066: A Year to Conquer England (2017)

Bathory: Countess of Blood (2008)

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

The Year London Blew Up (2005)

Vanity Fair (2004)

Peep Show (2003)

My Uncle Silas (2001)

Attachments (2000)

Plotlands (1997)

Midsomer Murders (1997)

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996)

Money For Nothing (1993)

The Law Lord (1992)

As Time Goes By (1992)

Waiting for God (1990)

Nice Work (1989)

Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989)

God's Chosen Car Park (1986)

Casualty (1986)

Shadowlands (1985)

EastEnders (1985)

Dempsey and Makepeace (1985)

Flying Into the Wind (1983)

The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace (1983)

Brimstone & Treacle (1982)

Father's Day (1979)

Diane (1975)

Crown Court (1972)

Justice (1971)

Ivanhoe (1970)

Crossplot (1969)

The Possessed (1969)

Present Laughter (1967)

Theatre 625 (1964)

Prisoner and Escort (1964)

24-Hour Call (1963)

Armchair Theatre (1956)
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GenderMale
Birthday1938-08-05 (86 years old)
Birth PlaceShrewsbury, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
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