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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.

Sitting in Limbo
as Mr. Hardcastle

A Prominent Patient
as Sir Robert Vansittart

1066: A Year to Conquer England
as Edward the Confessor

The Ghost Writer
as Roy

The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams

Monday Monday

Bathory: Countess of Blood
as Cardinal Forgách

The Ties That Bind Us
as Codal (archive footage)

Elizabeth: The Golden Age
as Old Throckmorton

The Year London Blew Up
as John Matthews

Vanity Fair
as Horrocks

Peep Show
as Mr. Klugman

Foyle's War
as Philby

Rescue Me
as Phil Partridge

The Wyvern Mystery
as Jim
Attachments
as David

Plotlands
as Mr. Clarke

Midsomer Murders
as Jack Wilson

The Legacy of Reginald Perrin

'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter
as Self

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
as Mr Cavendish

The Plant
as Alan

Class Act
as Bill Snape

Money For Nothing
as Mr Derbyshire

A Year in Provence
as Harry

Virtual Murder
as Professor Wilbur Gutteridge

The Law Lord
as Professor Hamer

As Time Goes By
as Mr. Carter
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
as Wally

Waiting for God
as Rev. Dennis Sparrow

The Chief
as The Dean

Nice Work
as Bob Busby

Take Me Home
as Ray

Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Philips K.C.
God's Chosen Car Park
as Johnny Gilmore

Casualty
as Peter Gilchrist

A Very Peculiar Practice
as Gregory

Shadowlands
as Alan Gregg

EastEnders
as Consultant

Dempsey and Makepeace
as Psychiatrist

The Bill
Pull The Other One
as Terry

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
as Tom Patterson

Flying Into the Wind
as Defence Counsel

Tales Out of School
as Defence Counsel

Red Monarch
as Lukov

The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
as Alfred Russel Wallace

Brimstone & Treacle
as Clergyman
The Bagthorpe Saga
as Uncle Parker
Too Close to the Edge
as Doctor

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
as Tom Patterson

Machinegunner
as Des

Out of the Trees

Angels

Diane
as Terry

Funny Farm

Churchill's People
as Thryth

Playhouse
as Terry

Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
as Codal

Crown Court
as Prof. Hubert Loomis