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.
The Ghost Writer
(Roy)
Vanity Fair
(Horrocks)
Brimstone & Treacle
(Clergyman)
'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter
(Self)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
(Old Throckmorton)
The Plant
(Alan)
Crossplot
(Sebastian)
The Wyvern Mystery
(Jim)
Funny Farm
God's Chosen Car Park
(Johnny Gilmore)
Too Close to the Edge
(Doctor)
Flying Into the Wind
(Defence Counsel)
Don't Utter a Note
(Nick)
Prisoner and Escort
(Hoskinson)
Out of the Trees
Diane
(Terry)
Bathory: Countess of Blood
(Cardinal Forgách)
The Possessed
(Kirilov)
Red Monarch
(Lukov)
Money For Nothing
(Mr Derbyshire)
The Year London Blew Up
(John Matthews)
Sitting in Limbo
(Mr. Hardcastle)
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
(Codal)
A Prominent Patient
(Sir Robert Vansittart)
Machinegunner
(Des)
Present Laughter
(Roland Maule)
The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
(Alfred Russel Wallace)
Shadowlands
(Alan Gregg)
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
(Tom Patterson)
The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
The Ties That Bind Us
(Codal (archive footage))
The Law Lord
(Professor Hamer)
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
(Wally)
The Rumble in the Jungle: Remembering 'Planet of the Daleks'
(Self)
As Time Goes By
(Mr. Carter)
Midsomer Murders
(Jack Wilson)
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
The Bill
Dempsey and Makepeace
(Psychiatrist)
Dalziel & Pascoe
Virtual Murder
Redcap
Angels
Play for Today
EastEnders
(Consultant)
24-Hour Call
(Mark Peters)
Mystery and Imagination
Monday Monday
Plotlands
(Mr. Clarke)
Pull The Other One
(Terry)
The Legacy of Reginald Perrin
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Peep Show
(Mr. Klugman)
Doctor Who
(Codal)
Take Me Home
(Ray)
Agatha Christie's Poirot
(Philips K.C.)
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
(Mr Cavendish)
Justice
(Frobisher)
My Uncle Silas
(Goffy Windsor)
Casualty
(Peter Gilchrist)
1066: A Year to Conquer England
(Edward the Confessor)
Waiting for God
(Rev. Dennis Sparrow)
Waiting for God
(Rev. Dennis)
Armchair Theatre
(Hoskinson)
Crown Court
(Prof. Hubert Loomis)
Nice Work
(Bob Busby)
Attachments
(David)
Ivanhoe
(Prince John)
Foyle's War
(Philby)
Playhouse
(Terry)
Armchair Theatre
(Joe)
The Chief
(The Dean)
Class Act
(Bill Snape)
Sword of Honour
(Trimmer)
Rescue Me
(Phil Partridge)
Tales Out of School
(Defence Counsel)
Theatre 625
(Valerius Catullus)
Theatre 625
(Louis Dillon)
Theatre 625
(Trimmer)
Theatre 625
(Harvey)
A Very Peculiar Practice
(Gregory)
Churchill's People
(Thryth)
