Ray Smith

Biography

Ray Smith (1 May 1936 – 15 December 1991) was a Welsh actor who played the tough-talking police chief, Detective Superintendent Gordon Spikings, in the television series Dempsey and Makepeace. He was the first actor to play Brother Cadfael for BBC radio, and played a memorable Dai Bando in the BBC's 1975 adaptation of How Green Was My Valley - a touching performance given that Smith;s own father was a miner killed in a pit accident when Smith was just three years old. His final role work was in the TV adaptation of Kingsley Amis' novel, The Old Devils. He died just before filming concluded at the age of 55 from a massive heart attack and won the posthumous BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Actor in 1992.

Movies with Ray Smith

• Operation: Daybreak 1975 · ★ 6.9
• Rogue Male 1976 · ★ 6.5
• Under Milk Wood 1972 · ★ 6.1
• Tomorrow at Ten 1963 · ★ 6.0
• The Painted Smile 1962 · ★ 5.8
• The Informers 1963 · ★ 6.8
• The Sailor's Return 1978 · ★ 6.2
• King Lear 1974 · ★ 5.5
• Shaggy Dog 1968 · ★ 6.7
• Made 1972 · ★ 7.0
• The Next Voice You See 1975 · ★ 9.0
• Stella 1968 · ★ 7.0
• Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It 1968 · ★ 10.0
• The Mayor's Charity 1977 · ★ 9.0
• Mucking Out 1978
• Britannia: A Bridge 1973
• Bewitched 1983
• The Trial of Klaus Barbie 1987
• The Life and Times of David Lloyd George 1981
• The Old Devils 1992
• The Ladies: Doreen 1969
• Candidate for Murder 1962
• The Mill 1972
• The Atom Spies 1979