Tim Preece

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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.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK

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Birthday: August 05, 1938

Age: 86 years old

Gender: Male

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The Ghost Writer
Vanity Fair
Brimstone & Treacle
'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
The Plant
Crossplot
The Wyvern Mystery
Funny Farm
God's Chosen Car Park
Too Close to the Edge
Flying Into the Wind
Don't Utter a Note
Prisoner and Escort
Out of the Trees
Diane
Bathory: Countess of Blood
The Possessed
Red Monarch
Money For Nothing
The Year London Blew Up
Sitting in Limbo
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
A Prominent Patient
Machinegunner
Present Laughter
The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
Shadowlands
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
The Ties That Bind Us