Timothy Bartlett is a New Zealand stage, television and film actor who is best known for presenting TVNZ's Playschool in the 1980s,[1] and playing Bernie Leach in Shortland Street in the mid-1990s.[2] He first appeared in professional theatre for Auckland's Theatre Corporate in 1974.[3] He has also appeared in An Angel at My Table,[4] Soldier Soldier, The Tommyknockers, Duggan, Holby City, Out of the Blue, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.[5]