Ray Smith
Birthday
1936/05/01
Day of death
1991/12/15 (55 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Trealaw, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Also know as
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Biography
Ray Smith (1 May 1936 – 15 December 1991) was a Welsh actor who played the tough-talking police chief, Detective Superintendent Gordon Spikings, in the television series Dempsey and Makepeace. He was the first actor to play Brother Cadfael for BBC radio, and played a memorable Dai Bando in the BBC's 1975 adaptation of How Green Was My Valley - a touching performance given that Smith;s own father was a miner killed in a pit accident when Smith was just three years old. His final role work was in ...Read more
Acting
(1978) Mucking Out
as Thomas Loftus
(1973) Britannia: A Bridge
as Narrator (Voice)
(1968) Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It
as Stanley Maxwell
(1978) The Sailor's Return
as Fred Leake
(1962) The Painted Smile
as Glynn
(1976) Rogue Male
as Fisherman
(1963) The Informers
as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
(1974) King Lear
as Kent
(1983) Bewitched
as Sylvester Brand
(1968) Shaggy Dog
as Mr Johnson
(1987) The Trial of Klaus Barbie
as Margaine
(1975) Operation: Daybreak
as Hájek
(1981) The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
as Aneurin Bevan
(1968) Stella
as Man
(1972) Made
as Policeman
(1972) Under Milk Wood
as Mr Waldo
(1962) Tomorrow at Ten
as Mr. Briggs
(1977) The Mayor's Charity
as Charlie Harris
(1975) The Next Voice You See
as Ben Tamplin
(1992) The Old Devils
as Charlie Norris
(1973) Thriller
as Ben Tamplin
(1972) Colditz
as Hans Hugenberg
(1985) Dempsey and Makepeace
as Spikings
(1972) Crown Court
as ---
(1967) Callan
as ---
(1971) The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Chief prison officer
(1959) No Hiding Place
as ---
(1977) 1990
as ---
(1982) We'll Meet Again
as ---
(1975) How Green Was My Valley
as Dai Bando
(1967) Sanctuary
as ---
(1970) Shadows of Fear
as German
(1975) Madame Bovary
as Homais
(1968) The Company of Five
as ---
(1969) The Main Chance
as Joe Holroyd
(1965) Public Eye
as Det. Insp. Percy Firbank
(1973) Sam
as George Barraclough
(1976) Bill Brand
as Moores
(1975) The Hanged Man
as Josef Milcjek
(1965) Public Eye
as Firbank
(1965) Public Eye
as Percy Firbank
(1978) Enemy at the Door
as John Weston