Cast & creator
Tim Preece
Best known for Midsomer Murders, EastEnders, Doctor Who
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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film credits
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television credits
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1956–2020 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (87)
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Midsomer Murders
Jack Wilson
1997
EastEnders
Consultant
1985
Doctor Who
Codal
1963
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Philips K.C.
1989
Casualty
Peter Gilchrist
1986
Play for Today
1970
Crown Court
Prof. Hubert Loomis
1972
The Bill
1984
Playhouse
Terry
1974
Theatre 625
Valerius Catullus
1964Theatre 625
Louis Dillon
1964Theatre 625
Trimmer
1964Theatre 625
Harvey
1964
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
Foyle's War
Philby
2002
Prime Suspect
AA Speaker
1991
Peep Show
Mr. Klugman
2003
Angels
1975
Justice
Frobisher
1971
The Chief
The Dean
1990
Churchill's People
Thryth
1974
Dempsey and Makepeace
Psychiatrist
1985
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Mr Cavendish
1996
As Time Goes By
Mr. Carter
1992
Waiting for God
Rev. Dennis Sparrow
1990Waiting for God
Rev. Dennis
1990
Redcap
Corporal Scowler
1964Attachments
David
2000
Mystery and Imagination
Earle
1966
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Old Throckmorton
2007
The Ghost Writer
Roy
2010
A Very Peculiar Practice
Gregory
1986
A Year in Provence
Harry
1993
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Tom Patterson
1976
The Robinsons
Priest
2005
Armchair Theatre
Hoskinson
1956Armchair Theatre
Joe
1956Armchair Theatre
John
1956
Virtual Murder
Professor Wilbur Gutteridge
1992
Ivanhoe
Prince John
1970
Vanity Fair
Horrocks
2004
Tales Out of School
Defence Counsel
1983
The Legacy of Reginald Perrin
Tom Patterson
1996
Monday Monday
2009
Nice Work
Bob Busby
1989
Rescue Me
Phil Partridge
2002
Class Act
Bill Snape
1994
1066: A Year to Conquer England
Edward the Confessor
2017Sword of Honour
Trimmer
1967
Bathory: Countess of Blood
Cardinal Forgách
2008
Plotlands
Mr. Clarke
1997
The Glamour Girls
Donald
1980Westway
Graham Lawrence
1976
Crossplot
Sebastian
1969Pull The Other One
Terry
1984
The Ties That Bind Us
Codal (archive footage)
2008
Machinegunner
Des
1976
Red Monarch
Lukov
1983
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
Codal
1973
The Wyvern Mystery
Jim
200024-Hour Call
Mark Peters
1963
The Year London Blew Up
John Matthews
2005The Bagthorpe Saga
Uncle Parker
1981
Out of the Trees
1976
Flying Into the Wind
Defence Counsel
1983
Take Me Home
Ray
1989
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Tom Patterson
1983
Brimstone & Treacle
Clergyman
1982
Sitting in Limbo
Mr. Hardcastle
2020
The Law Lord
Professor Hamer
1992
The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
1983Don't Utter a Note
Nick
1966
A Prominent Patient
Sir Robert Vansittart
2017
The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
2009Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
Wally
1990
Money For Nothing
Mr Derbyshire
1993Too Close to the Edge
Doctor
1980
Present Laughter
Roland Maule
1967
'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter
Self
1996
The Plant
Alan
1995God's Chosen Car Park
Johnny Gilmore
1986Prisoner and Escort
Hoskinson
1964
Father's Day
Writer
1979
Shadowlands
Alan Gregg
1985
Diane
Terry
1975
The Possessed
Kirilov
1969