Tim Preece

Personal Info

Birthday

August 5, 1938

(87 years old)

Place of Birth

Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK

Tim Preece

Biography

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.

Known For

Midsomer Murders

Agatha Christie's Poirot

EastEnders

Doctor Who

Foyle's War

Crown Court

Casualty

Peep Show

Filmography

2020
Sitting in Limbo
as Mr. Hardcastle
2017
A Prominent Patient
as Sir Robert Vansittart
2010
The Ghost Writer
as Roy
2008
Bathory: Countess of Blood
as Cardinal Forgách
The Ties That Bind Us
as Codal (archive footage)
2007
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
as Old Throckmorton
2005
The Year London Blew Up
as John Matthews
2004
Vanity Fair
as Horrocks
2000
The Wyvern Mystery
as Jim
1996
'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter
as Self
1995
The Plant
as Alan
1993
Money For Nothing
as Mr Derbyshire
1986
God's Chosen Car Park
as Johnny Gilmore
1985
Shadowlands
as Alan Gregg
1983
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
as Tom Patterson
Flying Into the Wind
as Defence Counsel
Red Monarch
as Lukov
The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
as Alfred Russel Wallace
1982
Brimstone & Treacle
as Clergyman
1980
Too Close to the Edge
as Doctor
1976
Machinegunner
as Des
1975
Diane
as Terry
1973
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
as Codal
1969
Crossplot
as Sebastian
The Possessed
as Kirilov
1967
Present Laughter
as Roland Maule
1966
Don't Utter a Note
as Nick
1964
Prisoner and Escort
as Hoskinson