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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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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1938-08-05
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- school Known for: Acting
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- info Birth Place Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK
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6.9
The Ghost Writer
2010-02-12

5.8
Vanity Fair
2004-09-01

5.9
Brimstone & Treacle
1982-10-01

6
'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter
1996-08-16

6.7
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007-09-09

3.7
The Plant
1995-01-20

5.5
Crossplot
1969-11-25

4.5
The Wyvern Mystery
2000-10-12

5.8
Funny Farm
1975-02-27
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God's Chosen Car Park
1986-12-01
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Too Close to the Edge
1980-05-13

7.3
Flying Into the Wind
1983-06-26
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Don't Utter a Note
1966-04-09
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Prisoner and Escort
1964-04-05

0
Out of the Trees
1976-01-10

4
Diane
1975-07-09

5.6
Bathory: Countess of Blood
2008-07-10

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The Possessed
1969-05-02

5
Red Monarch
1983-06-16

4
Money For Nothing
1993-10-10

8
The Year London Blew Up
2005-09-01

7.4
Sitting in Limbo
2020-06-08

7
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
1973-05-12

6
A Prominent Patient
2017-03-09

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Machinegunner
1976-04-01

0
Present Laughter
1967-02-28

0
The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
1983-01-01

7.2
Shadowlands
1985-06-15

0
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
1983-10-03

0
The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
2009-10-05

0
The Ties That Bind Us
2008-03-03

7.6
As Time Goes By
1992-01-12

7.5
Midsomer Murders
1997-03-23

8
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
1976-09-08

6.7
The Bill
1984-10-16

6.4
Dempsey and Makepeace
1985-01-11

6.4
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996-03-16

6.5
Virtual Murder
1992-07-24

6
Redcap
1964-10-17

3.7
Angels
1975-09-01

6.4
Play for Today
1970-10-15

4.1
EastEnders
1985-02-19
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24-Hour Call
1963-02-02

5.5
Mystery and Imagination
1966-01-29
10
Monday Monday
2009-07-13

0
Plotlands
1997-05-18
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Pull The Other One
1984-06-15

8
The Legacy of Reginald Perrin
1996-09-22

3.8
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965-10-07

8
Peep Show
2003-09-19

7.9
Doctor Who
1963-11-23

3.5
Take Me Home
1989-05-02

8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989-01-08

7.2
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996-01-03

6
Justice
1971-10-08

7
My Uncle Silas
2001-10-28

6.1
Casualty
1986-09-06

0
1066: A Year to Conquer England
2017-02-28

7.3
Waiting for God
1990-06-28

7.3
Waiting for God
1990-06-28

5.8
Armchair Theatre
1956-07-08

5.4
Crown Court
1972-10-11

6.5
Nice Work
1989-10-04
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Attachments
2000-09-26

5
Ivanhoe
1970-01-04

7.9
Foyle's War
2002-10-27