Neville Smith

Known for ActingBorn 1940-01-01 (age 86)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).Read more

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Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Long Shot

Bad News

Sling Your Hook

Doctor Who

The World Cup: A Captain's Tale

The Comic Strip Presents...

In Two Minds

Coast to Coast

There Is Also Tomorrow

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

Prick Up Your Ears

Billy Liar

The Rank and File

Wish You Were Here

The Big Flame

Gumshoe

Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror

The Golden Vision

Red Letter Day

The End of Arthur's Marriage

BBC Play of the Month

The Wednesday Play

Film '72

Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition

Completely Bad News

Afternoon Off

Bag of Yeast

Match of the Day

Second City Firsts

Some of My Best Friends...

The Lump

Wear a Very Big Hat