Tim Preece
Born (1938-08-05) 5 August 1938
Shrewsbury, England
OccupationActor

Tim Preece (born 5 August 1938) is an English actor. He has appeared on British television since the 1960s and also acted on stage.[1][2]

Early life

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.[3]

Career

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).[4][5] He later returned to the role for The Legacy Of Reginald Perrin (1996).[1] He also appeared as the editor of a local newspaper in "The Journalist", an episode of People Like Us (2001) with Chris Langham.[6] Preece played the recurring role of Rev. Sparrow in Waiting for God (1992–94).[7]

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).[8][1]

In 2017, Preece appeared in a Royal National Theatre production of the improvised play Lost Without Words.[9]

Selected filmography

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Tim Preece". BFI. Archived from the original on 20 November 2017.
  2. ↑ "Tim Preece | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
  3. ↑ "Tim Preece". AHA Talent. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  4. ↑ "Planet of the Daleks ★★★". Radio Times.
  5. ↑ "BFI Screenonline: Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The (1976-79) Credits". www.screenonline.org.uk.
  6. ↑ "The Journalist (2001)". BFI. Archived from the original on 15 October 2021.
  7. ↑ "BFI Screenonline: Waiting for God (1990-94) Credits". www.screenonline.org.uk.
  8. ↑ "Tim Preece". www.aveleyman.com.
  9. ↑ Bowie-Sell, Daisy (14 March 2017). "We ignore older actors at our absolute peril". WhatsOnStage.com. Retrieved 9 November 2020.


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