Neville Smith
Birthday
1940/01/01 (85 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Liverpool, England, UK
Also know as
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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).
Acting
(1974) Match of the Day
as Chance
(1969) Sling Your Hook
as Spider
(1965) Wear a Very Big Hat
as Johnny Johnson
(1987) Wish You Were Here
as Cinema Manager
(1978) Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
as Hopkins
(1979) Afternoon Off
as Cyril
(1970) Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition
as Liverpool Delegate
(1965) The End of Arthur's Marriage
as He
(1971) The Rank and File
as Jerry
(1968) The Golden Vision
as Vincent Coyne
(1969) The Big Flame
as Strike Committee
(1971) Gumshoe
as Arthur
(1979) Long Distance Information
as Christian Harvey
(1987) Prick Up Your Ears
as Police Inspector
(1978) Long Shot
as Neville
(1967) In Two Minds
as Man at Pub
(1976) Bag of Yeast
as Tony Scannell
(1971) After a Lifetime
as Young Billy
(1967) The Lump
as Eddie
(1983) Bad News
as Manager
(2019) Completely Bad News
as Manager
(1963) Billy Liar
as Youth (uncredited)
(1969) There Is Also Tomorrow
as Izzy
(1964) Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror
as D'Argenson
(1987) Coast to Coast
as Wedding Guest
(1964) The Wednesday Play
as ---
(1982) The Comic Strip Presents...
as Manager