Neville Smith
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1940-01-01
Place of birth: 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
Match of the Day
1974Chance
Sling Your Hook
1969SpiderWear a Very Big Hat
1965Johnny Johnson
Wish You Were Here
1987Cinema Manager
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1978Hopkins
Afternoon Off
1979Cyril
Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition
1970Liverpool Delegate
The End of Arthur's Marriage
1965He
The Rank and File
1971Jerry
The Golden Vision
1968Vincent Coyne
The Big Flame
1969Strike Committee
Gumshoe
1971Arthur
Long Distance Information
1979Christian Harvey
Prick Up Your Ears
1987Police Inspector
Long Shot
1978Neville
In Two Minds
1967Man at Pub
Bag of Yeast
1976Tony Scannell
The Lump
1967Eddie
Bad News
1983Manager