Neville Smith
- Acting
- January 1, 1940 · 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).
Known for
Filmography
- Completely Bad News · Manager
- Wish You Were Here · Cinema Manager
- Prick Up Your Ears · Police Inspector
- Coast to Coast · Wedding Guest
- Bad News · Manager
- The Comic Strip Presents... · Manager
- The World Cup: A Captain's Tale · Writer
- Long Distance Information · Christian Harvey, Writer
- Afternoon Off · Cyril
- Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf · Hopkins
- Long Shot · Neville
- Bag of Yeast · Tony Scannell, Writer
- Red Letter Day · Tony, Writer
- Match of the Day · Chance, Writer
- Second City Firsts · Chance, Writer
- Gumshoe · Arthur, Writer
- Film '72 · Self
- The Rank and File · Jerry
- Play for Today · Writer
- Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition · Liverpool Delegate
- There Is Also Tomorrow · Izzy
- Sling Your Hook · Spider
- The Big Flame · Strike Committee
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre · Writer
- Some of My Best Friends... · Director
- The Golden Vision · Vincent Coyne, Writer
- In Two Minds · Man at Pub
- The Lump · Eddie
- The End of Arthur's Marriage · He
- BBC Play of the Month · Paul McConnon
- Wear a Very Big Hat · Johnny Johnson
- The Wednesday Play · Johnny Johnson, Vince Coyne
- Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror · D'Argenson
- Doctor Who · D'Argenson
- Billy Liar · Youth (uncredited)
- Apaches · Writer