Neville Smith
Actor
Born January 1, 1940 in 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).
Filmography
Completely Bad News
Manager
Wish You Were Here
Cinema Manager
Prick Up Your Ears
Police Inspector
Coast to Coast
Wedding Guest
Bad News
Manager
The Comic Strip Presents...
Manager
The World Cup: A Captain's Tale
Long Distance Information
Christian Harvey
Afternoon Off
Cyril
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Hopkins
Long Shot
Neville
Bag of Yeast
Tony Scannell
Red Letter Day
Tony
Match of the Day
Chance
Gumshoe
Arthur
The Rank and File
Jerry
Play for Today
Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition
Liverpool Delegate
There Is Also Tomorrow
Izzy
Sling Your Hook
Spider
The Big Flame
Strike Committee
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Some of My Best Friends...
The Golden Vision
Vincent Coyne
In Two Minds
Man at Pub
The Lump
Eddie
The End of Arthur's Marriage
He
BBC Play of the Month
Paul McConnon
The Wednesday Play
Johnny Johnson
Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror
D'Argenson
Doctor Who
D'Argenson
Billy Liar
Youth (uncredited)