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

• 2020Sitting in Limbo — Mr. Hardcastle
• 1066: A Year to Conquer England — Edward the Confessor
• 2017A Prominent Patient — Sir Robert Vansittart
• 2010The Ghost Writer — Roy
• Monday Monday
• 2009The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
• 2008Bathory: Countess of Blood — Cardinal Forgách
• 2008The Ties That Bind Us — Codal (archive footage)
• 2007Elizabeth: The Golden Age — Old Throckmorton
• The Robinsons — Priest
• 2005The Year London Blew Up — John Matthews
• 2004Vanity Fair — Horrocks
• Peep Show — Mr. Klugman
• Foyle's War — Philby
• Rescue Me — Phil Partridge
• Attachments — David
• 2000The Wyvern Mystery — Jim
• Midsomer Murders — Jack Wilson
• Plotlands — Mr. Clarke
• Hetty Wainthropp Investigates — Mr Cavendish
• The Legacy of Reginald Perrin — Tom Patterson
• 1995The Plant — Alan
• Class Act — Bill Snape
• A Year in Provence — Harry
• 1993Money For Nothing — Mr Derbyshire
• As Time Goes By — Mr. Carter
• 1992The Law Lord — Professor Hamer
• Virtual Murder — Professor Wilbur Gutteridge
• Prime Suspect — AA Speaker
• 1990Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death — Wally
• The Chief — The Dean
• Waiting for God — Rev. Dennis Sparrow
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Philips K.C.
• Nice Work — Bob Busby
• Take Me Home — Ray
• A Very Peculiar Practice — Gregory
• Casualty — Peter Gilchrist
• 1986God's Chosen Car Park — Johnny Gilmore
• Dempsey and Makepeace — Psychiatrist
• EastEnders — Consultant
• 1985Shadowlands — Alan Gregg
• Pull The Other One — Terry
• The Bill
• 1983Flying Into the Wind — Defence Counsel
• 1983Red Monarch — Lukov
• Tales Out of School — Defence Counsel
• 1983The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin — Tom Patterson
• 1983The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace — Alfred Russel Wallace
• 1982Brimstone & Treacle — Clergyman
• The Bagthorpe Saga — Uncle Parker
• The Glamour Girls — Donald
• 1980Too Close to the Edge — Doctor
• 1979Father's Day — Writer
• 1976Machinegunner — Des
• 1976Out of the Trees
• The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin — Tom Patterson
• Westway — Graham Lawrence
• Angels
• 1975Diane — Terry
• 1975Funny Farm
• Churchill's People — Thryth
• Playhouse — Terry
• 1973Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks — Codal
• Crown Court — Prof. Hubert Loomis
• Justice — Frobisher
• Ivanhoe — Prince John
• Play for Today
• 1969Crossplot — Sebastian
• 1969The Possessed — Kirilov
• 1967Present Laughter — Roland Maule
• Sword of Honour — Trimmer
• 1966Don't Utter a Note — Nick
• Mystery and Imagination — Earle
• Thirty-Minute Theatre
• 1964Prisoner and Escort — Hoskinson
• Redcap — Corporal Scowler
• Theatre 625 — Valerius Catullus, Louis Dillon, Trimmer, Harvey
• 24-Hour Call — Mark Peters
• Doctor Who — Codal
• Armchair Theatre — Hoskinson, Joe, John

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 1996'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter — Self