Acting
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.
Midsomer Murders
1997 · TV
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · TV
Casualty
1986 · TV
EastEnders
1985 · TV
Doctor Who
1963 · TV
Play for Today
1970 · TV
Crown Court
1972 · TV
Foyle's War
2002 · TV
Theatre 625
1964 · TV
Playhouse
1974 · TV
The Bill
1984 · TV
Peep Show
2003 · TV
Angels
1975 · TV
Dempsey and Makepeace
1985 · TV
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996 · TV
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · TV
The Chief
1990 · TV
Churchill's People
1974 · TV
As Time Goes By
1992 · TV
Justice
1971 · TV
Mystery and Imagination
1966 · TV
Waiting for God
1990 · TV
A Very Peculiar Practice
1986 · TV
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007 · Movie
Redcap
1964 · TV
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
1976 · TV
Vanity Fair
2004 · Movie
Virtual Murder
1992 · TV
Rescue Me
2002 · TV
The Ghost Writer
2010 · Movie
A Year in Provence
1993 · TV
Class Act
1994 · TV
Tales Out of School
1983 · TV
Plotlands
1997 · TV
Monday Monday
2009 · TV
Armchair Theatre
1956 · TV
1066: A Year to Conquer England
2017 · TV
Bathory: Countess of Blood
2008 · Movie
Nice Work
1989 · TV
Machinegunner
1976 · Movie
The Legacy of Reginald Perrin
1996 · TV
Ivanhoe
1970 · TV
The Wyvern Mystery
2000 · Movie
Crossplot
1969 · Movie
Red Monarch
1983 · Movie
Take Me Home
1989 · TV
The Law Lord
1992 · Movie
Shadowlands
1985 · Movie
Sitting in Limbo
2020 · Movie
The Plant
1995 · Movie
A Prominent Patient
2017 · Movie
Brimstone & Treacle
1982 · Movie
The Ties That Bind Us
2008 · Movie
Flying Into the Wind
1983 · Movie
The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
1983 · Movie
Money For Nothing
1993 · Movie
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
1983 · Movie
Present Laughter
1967 · Movie
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
1973 · Movie
Out of the Trees
1976 · Movie
The Year London Blew Up
2005 · Movie
'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter
1996 · Movie
Diane
1975 · Movie
The Possessed
1969 · Movie
The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
2009 · Movie
Funny Farm
1975 · Movie
