Acting
Tim Preece
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
Sitting in Limbo
Film · 2020
A Prominent Patient
Film · 2017
1066: A Year to Conquer England
Series · 2017
The Ghost Writer
Film · 2010
The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
Film · 2009
Monday Monday
Series · 2009
Bathory: Countess of Blood
Film · 2008
The Ties That Bind Us
Film · 2008
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Film · 2007
The Year London Blew Up
Film · 2005
The Robinsons
Series · 2005
Vanity Fair
Film · 2004
Peep Show
Series · 2003
Foyle's War
Series · 2002
Rescue Me
Series · 2002
The Wyvern Mystery
Film · 2000
Attachments
Series · 2000
Midsomer Murders
Series · 1997
Plotlands
Series · 1997
'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter
Film · 1996
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Series · 1996
The Legacy of Reginald Perrin
Series · 1996
The Plant
Film · 1995
Class Act
Series · 1994
Money For Nothing
Film · 1993
A Year in Provence
Series · 1993
The Law Lord
Film · 1992
As Time Goes By
Series · 1992
Virtual Murder
Series · 1992
Prime Suspect
Series · 1991
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
Film · 1990
Waiting for God
Series · 1990
Waiting for God
Series · 1990
The Chief
Series · 1990
Take Me Home
Series · 1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Series · 1989
Nice Work
Series · 1989
God's Chosen Car Park
Film · 1986
Casualty
Series · 1986
A Very Peculiar Practice
Series · 1986
Shadowlands
Film · 1985
Dempsey and Makepeace
Series · 1985
EastEnders
Series · 1985
The Bill
Series · 1984
Pull The Other One
Series · 1984
Flying Into the Wind
Film · 1983
Red Monarch
Film · 1983
The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
Film · 1983
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Film · 1983
Tales Out of School
Series · 1983
Brimstone & Treacle
Film · 1982
The Bagthorpe Saga
Series · 1981
Too Close to the Edge
Film · 1980
The Glamour Girls
Series · 1980
Out of the Trees
Film · 1976
Machinegunner
Film · 1976
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Series · 1976
Westway
Series · 1976
Funny Farm
Film · 1975
Diane
Film · 1975
Angels
Series · 1975
Playhouse
Series · 1974
Churchill's People
Series · 1974
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
Film · 1973
Crown Court
Series · 1972
Justice
Series · 1971
Play for Today
Series · 1970
Ivanhoe
Series · 1970
Crossplot
Film · 1969
The Possessed
Film · 1969
Present Laughter
Film · 1967
Sword of Honour
Series · 1967
Don't Utter a Note
Film · 1966
Mystery and Imagination
Series · 1966
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Series · 1965
Prisoner and Escort
Film · 1964
Theatre 625
Series · 1964
Theatre 625
Series · 1964
Theatre 625
Series · 1964
Theatre 625
Series · 1964
Redcap
Series · 1964
24-Hour Call
Series · 1963
Doctor Who
Series · 1963
Armchair Theatre
Series · 1956
Armchair Theatre
Series · 1956
Armchair Theatre
Series · 1956