Tim Preece

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]

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]

• Crossplot (1969)
• Out of the Trees (1976, TV)
• Brimstone and Treacle (1982)
• Vanity Fair (2004)
• Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
• The Ghost Writer (2010)

• Tim Preece at IMDb
• Tim Preece at the Internet Broadway Database
• Amanda Howard Associates