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Tim Preece
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK
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…
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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.
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2020
Sitting in Limbo
Movie Mr. Hardcastle
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2017
A Prominent Patient
Movie Sir Robert Vansittart
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2017
1066: A Year to Conquer England
TV show Edward the Confessor
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2010
The Ghost Writer
Movie Roy
- 2009
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2009
Monday Monday
TV show
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2008
Bathory: Countess of Blood
Movie Cardinal Forgách
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2008
The Ties That Bind Us
Movie Codal (archive footage)
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2007
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Movie Old Throckmorton
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2005
The Year London Blew Up
Movie John Matthews
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2005
The Robinsons
TV show Priest
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2004
Vanity Fair
Movie Horrocks
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2003
Peep Show
TV show Mr. Klugman
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2002
Foyle's War
TV show Philby
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2002
Rescue Me
TV show Phil Partridge
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2000
The Wyvern Mystery
Movie Jim
More credits
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2000
Attachments
TV show David
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1997
Plotlands
TV show Mr. Clarke
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1997
Midsomer Murders
TV show Jack Wilson
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1996
The Legacy of Reginald Perrin
TV show Tom Patterson
- 1996
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1996
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
TV show Mr Cavendish
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1995
The Plant
Movie Alan
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1994
Class Act
TV show Bill Snape
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1993
Money For Nothing
Movie Mr Derbyshire
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1993
A Year in Provence
TV show Harry
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1992
Virtual Murder
TV show Professor Wilbur Gutteridge
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1992
The Law Lord
Movie Professor Hamer
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1992
As Time Goes By
TV show Mr. Carter
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1991
Prime Suspect
TV show AA Speaker
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1990
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
Movie Wally
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1990
Waiting for God
TV show Rev. Dennis Sparrow
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1990
The Chief
TV show The Dean
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1989
Nice Work
TV show Bob Busby
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1989
Take Me Home
TV show Ray
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1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV show Philips K.C.
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1986
God's Chosen Car Park
Movie Johnny Gilmore
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1986
Casualty
TV show Peter Gilchrist
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1986
A Very Peculiar Practice
TV show Gregory
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1985
Shadowlands
Movie Alan Gregg
