Acting credits
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Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Tim Preece
Acting
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Movies: 29Series: 39Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 113360
IMDb ID: nm0695784
Known for: Acting
Born: August 5, 1938
Age: 87
Place of birth: Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1956 - 2020
Years active: 65
Average TMDB rating: 6.68
Wikidata: Q7804127
Other jobs
Writer (1)
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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Tim Preece.
7.4
Sitting in Limbo
as Mr. Hardcastle
2020 Movie
5.9
A Prominent Patient
as Sir Robert Vansittart
2017 Movie
6.8
The Ghost Writer
as Roy
2010 Movie
The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
2009 Movie
5.7
Bathory: Countess of Blood
as Cardinal Forgách
2008 Movie
The Ties That Bind Us
as Codal (archive footage)
2008 Movie
6.7
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
as Old Throckmorton
2007 Movie
8.0
The Year London Blew Up
as John Matthews
2005 Movie
5.8
Vanity Fair
as Horrocks
2004 Movie
4.8
The Wyvern Mystery
as Jim
2000 Movie
6.0
'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter
as Self
1996 Movie
3.3
The Plant
as Alan
1995 Movie
4.0
Money For Nothing
as Mr Derbyshire
1993 Movie
The Law Lord
as Professor Hamer
1992 Movie
7.2
Shadowlands
as Alan Gregg
1985 Movie
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
as Tom Patterson
1983 Movie
7.3
Flying Into the Wind
as Defence Counsel
1983 Movie
5.0
Red Monarch
as Lukov
1983 Movie
The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
as Alfred Russel Wallace
1983 Movie
5.8
Brimstone & Treacle
as Clergyman
1982 Movie
Father's Day
Writer
1979 Movie
5.0
Machinegunner
as Des
1976 Movie
Out of the Trees
1976 Movie
4.0
Diane
as Terry
1975 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Tim Preece.
1066: A Year to Conquer England
as Edward the Confessor • 3 eps
2017 Series
10.0
Monday Monday
1 eps
2009 Series
8.1
Peep Show
as Mr. Klugman • 1 eps
2003 Series
7.9
Foyle's War
as Philby • 1 eps
2002 Series
Rescue Me
as Phil Partridge • 1 eps
2002 Series
7.0
My Uncle Silas
as Goffy Windsor • 12 eps
2001 Series
Plotlands
as Mr. Clarke • 6 eps
1997 Series
7.5
Midsomer Murders
as Jack Wilson • 1 eps
1997 Series
7.3
The Legacy of Reginald Perrin
7 eps
1996 Series
6.3
Dalziel & Pascoe
1 eps
1996 Series
7.3
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
as Mr Cavendish • 1 eps
1996 Series
Class Act
as Bill Snape • 1 eps
1994 Series
6.5
Virtual Murder
1 eps
1992 Series
7.5
As Time Goes By
as Mr. Carter • 1 eps
1992 Series
7.3
Waiting for God
as Rev. Dennis Sparrow • 4 eps
1990 Series
6.0
The Chief
as The Dean • 1 eps
1990 Series
6.5
Nice Work
as Bob Busby • 2 eps
1989 Series
3.0
Take Me Home
as Ray • 3 eps
1989 Series
8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Philips K.C. • 1 eps
1989 Series
6.2
Casualty
as Peter Gilchrist • 1 eps
1986 Series
8.0
A Very Peculiar Practice
as Gregory • 1 eps
1986 Series
4.1
EastEnders
as Consultant • 1 eps
1985 Series
6.4
Dempsey and Makepeace
as Psychiatrist • 1 eps
1985 Series
6.7
The Bill
2 eps
1984 Series