Occupation Actor Name Tim Preece | Role Actor | |
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Born 5 August 1938 (age 86) ( 1938-08-05 ) Shrewsbury, Shropshire Movies and TV shows The Ghost Writer, Bathory, The Fall and Rise of Reginald, The Wyvern Mystery, Vanity Fair Similar People Juraj Jakubisko, Alex Pillai, David Maloney, David Nobbs, Roman Polanski |
Tim Preece (born 5 August 1938) is an English actor, prominent in 1970s television.
Preece was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. He played the politically correct Tom Patterson in the first two series of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976–77) and The Legacy Of Reginald Perrin (1996) and also had a role in the Doctor Who serial "Planet of the Daleks" (1973). He later 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 the British TV series Waiting for God (1992–94).
Other television appearances include Foyle's War: "War Games" (2003) as James Philby, as the pilot of a doomed holiday jet in the Casualty episode "Cascade" (1992), and as Mark's careers guiadance counsellor and therapist in the Peep Show (TV Series) episode "Dream Job" (2003).