Neville Smith
Acting · Born 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).
Neville Smith movies and shows
Doctor Who1963
Play for Today1970
BBC Play of the Month1965
The Wednesday Play1964
The Comic Strip Presents...1982
ITV Saturday Night Theatre1969
Red Letter Day1976
Wish You Were Here1987
Prick Up Your Ears1987
Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror1964
The End of Arthur's Marriage1965
Billy Liar1963
The World Cup: A Captain's Tale1982
The Rank and File1971
The Lump1967
Gumshoe1971
Bad News1983
Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition1970
Wear a Very Big Hat1965
Coast to Coast1987
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf1978
Long Distance Information1979
There Is Also Tomorrow1969
Match of the Day1974