Actor
Neville Smith
January 1, 1940 · Liverpool, England, UK
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).
Notable work
Often works with
Bill Dean
4 titles together
Gumshoe, The Golden Vision, The Rank and File
Ken Jones
4 titles together
Gumshoe, The End of Arthur's Marriage, The Golden Vision
George Innes
3 titles together
Billy Liar, Gumshoe, In Two Minds
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Bert King
3 titles together
Gumshoe, The Golden Vision, The Rank and File
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Joey Kaye
3 titles together
The Golden Vision, The Rank and File, The Big Flame
William Hartnell
2 titles together
Doctor Who, Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror
Full filmography · 32
Completely Bad News
as Manager
2019
Wish You Were Here
as Cinema Manager
19876.4
Prick Up Your Ears
as Police Inspector
19876.7
Coast to Coast
as Wedding Guest
1987
Bad News
as Manager
1983
The World Cup: A Captain's Tale
Writer
1982
Long Distance Information
as Christian Harvey and Writer
1979
Afternoon Off
as Cyril
1979
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
as Hopkins
1978
Long Shot
as Neville
1978
Bag of Yeast
as Tony Scannell and Writer
1976
Match of the Day
as Chance and Writer
1974