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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 5, 1938
Place of Birth
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK
Tim Preece
0.3 Popularity
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
7.4
Mr. Hardcastle
Sitting in Limbo
2020
5.9
Sir Robert Vansittart
A Prominent Patient
2017
0.0
Edward the Confessor
1066: A Year to Conquer England
2017
6.8
Roy
The Ghost Writer
2010
0.0
The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
2009
10.0
Monday Monday
2009
5.7
Cardinal Forgách
Bathory: Countess of Blood
2008
0.0
Codal (archive footage)
The Ties That Bind Us
2008
6.7
Old Throckmorton
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007
8.0
John Matthews
The Year London Blew Up
2005
Credits
Sitting in Limbo
as Mr. Hardcastle
2020
7.4
A Prominent Patient
as Sir Robert Vansittart
2017
5.9
1066: A Year to Conquer England
as Edward the Confessor
2017
0.0
The Ghost Writer
as Roy
2010
6.8
The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
2009
0.0
Monday Monday
2009
10.0
Bathory: Countess of Blood
as Cardinal Forgách
2008
5.7
The Ties That Bind Us
as Codal (archive footage)
2008
0.0
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
as Old Throckmorton
2007
6.7
The Year London Blew Up
as John Matthews
2005
8.0
Vanity Fair
as Horrocks
2004
5.8
Peep Show
as Mr. Klugman
2003
8.0
Foyle's War
as Philby
2002
7.9
Rescue Me
as Phil Partridge
2002
0.0
My Uncle Silas
as Goffy Windsor
2001
7.0
The Wyvern Mystery
as Jim
2000
4.8
🎬
Attachments
as David
2000
4.8
Plotlands
as Mr. Clarke
1997
0.0
Midsomer Murders
as Jack Wilson
1997
7.5
The Legacy of Reginald Perrin
1996
7.3
'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter
as Self
1996
6.0
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996
6.3
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
as Mr Cavendish
1996
7.3
The Plant
as Alan
1995
3.3
Class Act
as Bill Snape
1994
0.0
Money For Nothing
as Mr Derbyshire
1993
4.0
Virtual Murder
1992
6.5
The Law Lord
as Professor Hamer
1992
0.0
As Time Goes By
as Mr. Carter
1992
7.5
🎬
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
as Wally
1990
0.0
Waiting for God
as Rev. Dennis Sparrow
1990
7.3
Waiting for God
as Rev. Dennis
1990
7.3
The Chief
as The Dean
1990
6.0
Nice Work
as Bob Busby
1989
6.5
Take Me Home
as Ray
1989
3.0
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Philips K.C.
1989
8.2
🎬
God's Chosen Car Park
as Johnny Gilmore
1986
0.0
Casualty
as Peter Gilchrist
1986
6.1
A Very Peculiar Practice
as Gregory
1986
8.0
Shadowlands
as Alan Gregg
1985
7.2
EastEnders
as Consultant
1985
4.1
Dempsey and Makepeace
as Psychiatrist
1985
6.4
The Bill
1984
6.7
🎬
Pull The Other One
as Terry
1984
0.0
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
as Tom Patterson
1983
0.0
Flying Into the Wind
as Defence Counsel
1983
7.3
Tales Out of School
as Defence Counsel
1983
0.0
Red Monarch
as Lukov
1983
5.0
The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
as Alfred Russel Wallace
1983
0.0
Brimstone & Treacle
as Clergyman
1982
5.8
🎬
Too Close to the Edge
as Doctor
1980
0.0
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
1976
8.0
Machinegunner
as Des
1976
0.0
Out of the Trees
1976
0.0
Angels
1975
3.7
Diane
as Terry
1975
4.0
Funny Farm
1975
5.8
Churchill's People
as Thryth
1974
1.0
Playhouse
as Terry
1974
7.0
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
as Codal
1973
7.0
Crown Court
as Prof. Hubert Loomis
1972
5.4
Justice
as Frobisher
1971
6.0
Play for Today
1970
6.3
Ivanhoe
as Prince John
1970
5.0
Crossplot
as Sebastian
1969
5.4
The Possessed
as Kirilov
1969
0.0
Present Laughter
as Roland Maule
1967
0.0
🎬
Sword of Honour
as Trimmer
1967
0.0
🎬
Don't Utter a Note
as Nick
1966
0.0
Mystery and Imagination
1966
5.5
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
3.4
Redcap
1964
6.0
Theatre 625
as Valerius Catullus
1964
7.2
Theatre 625
as Louis Dillon
1964
7.2
Theatre 625
as Trimmer
1964
7.2
Theatre 625
as Harvey
1964
7.2
🎬
Prisoner and Escort
as Hoskinson
1964
0.0
Doctor Who
as Codal
1963
7.9
🎬
24-Hour Call
as Mark Peters
1963
0.0
Armchair Theatre
as Hoskinson
1956
5.8
Armchair Theatre
as Joe
1956
5.8