Tim Preece

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1938-08-05 (86 years old)

Place of Birth Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK

Tim Preece

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.

Known For

Actor

2020
Sitting in Limbo

as Mr. Hardcastle

2017
A Prominent Patient

as Sir Robert Vansittart

2017
1066: A Year to Conquer England

as Edward the Confessor

2010
2008
Bathory: Countess of Blood

as Cardinal Forgách

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

2001
My Uncle Silas

as Goffy Windsor

2000
Attachments

as David

1997
Plotlands

as Mr. Clarke

1997
Midsomer Murders

as Jack Wilson

1996
1995
The Plant

as Alan

1993
Money For Nothing

as Mr Derbyshire

1992
As Time Goes By

as Mr. Carter

1990
Waiting for God

as Rev. Dennis Sparrow

1990
Waiting for God

as Rev. Dennis

1989
Nice Work

as Bob Busby

1989
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Philips K.C.

1986
God's Chosen Car Park

as Johnny Gilmore

1986
Casualty

as Peter Gilchrist

1985
Shadowlands

as Alan Gregg

1985
EastEnders

as Consultant

1985
Dempsey and Makepeace

as Psychiatrist

1984
1983
Flying Into the Wind

as Defence Counsel

1983
Red Monarch

as Lukov

1982
Brimstone & Treacle

as Clergyman

1980
1976
1975
Diane

as Terry

1975
1972
Crown Court

as Prof. Hubert Loomis

1971
Justice

as Frobisher

1970
Ivanhoe

as Prince John

1969
Crossplot

as Sebastian

1969
The Possessed

as Kirilov

1967
Present Laughter

as Roland Maule

1966
1964
Prisoner and Escort

as Hoskinson

1964
1963
Doctor Who

as Codal

1963
24-Hour Call

as Mark Peters

1956
Armchair Theatre

as Hoskinson

Writer

1979
Father's Day

as Writer