Tim Preece (born 5 August 1938) is an English actor. He has appeared on British television since the 1960s and also acted on stage.[1][2]
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Tim Preece | |
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Born | (1938-08-05) 5 August 1938 (age 83) Shrewsbury, England |
Occupation | Actor |
Preece was born in Shrewsbury in Shropshire and was educated at the Priory Grammar School for Boys, Shrewsbury.[citation needed] 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]
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