Neville Smith

Birthday:

01/01/1940

Place of birth:

Liverpool, England, UK:

Biography:

Born in Liverpool in 1940, Neville Smith, a one time collaborator of director Ken Loach, is one of a number of working-class actors and writers to have transformed the subject-matter and tone of television drama in the 1960s and 1970s. He was responsible for two of Loach's finest television films - 'The Golden Vision' (The Wednesday Play, BBC, tx. 17/4/1968) and After a Lifetime (ITV, tx. 18/7/1971) - but also developed a partnership with the director Stephen Frears, for whom he wrote the cult British detective film, Gumshoe (UK/US, 1971).



Credits

Completely Bad News (2019)
Manager
Wish You Were Here (1987)
Cinema Manager
Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
Police Inspector
Coast to Coast (1987)
Wedding Guest
Bad News Tour (1983)
Manager
Long Distance Information (1979)
Christian Harvey
Afternoon Off (1979)
Cyril
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1978)
Hopkins
Long Shot (1978)
Neville
Bag of Yeast (1976)
Tony Scannell
Match of the Day (1974)
Chance
Gumshoe (1971)
Arthur
After a Lifetime (1971)
Young Billy
The Rank and File (1971)
Jerry
Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition (1970)
Liverpool Delegate
There Is Also Tomorrow (1969)
Izzy
Sling Your Hook (1969)
Spider
The Big Flame (1969)
Strike Committee
The Golden Vision (1968)
Vincent Coyne
In Two Minds (1967)
Man at Pub
The Lump (1967)
Eddie
The End of Arthur's Marriage (1965)
He
Wear a Very Big Hat (1965)
Johnny Johnson
Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror (1964)
D'Argenson
Billy Liar (1963)
Youth (uncredited)
The World Cup: A Captain's Tale (1982)
Writer
Long Distance Information (1979)
Writer
Apaches (1977)
Screenplay
Bag of Yeast (1976)
Writer
Match of the Day (1974)
Writer
Gumshoe (1971)
Writer
After a Lifetime (1971)
Writer
Some of My Best Friends... (1969)
Director
The Golden Vision (1968)
Writer