Neville Smith
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 1, 1940
- 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).
Movies with Neville Smith
- Billy Liar 1963 · ★ 6.8
- Prick Up Your Ears 1987 · ★ 6.7
- Wish You Were Here 1987 · ★ 6.4
- Gumshoe 1971 · ★ 6.2
- Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror 1964 · ★ 6.7
- The End of Arthur's Marriage 1965 · ★ 5.5
- Bad News 1983 · ★ 8.7
- The Golden Vision 1968 · ★ 6.4
- In Two Minds 1967 · ★ 7.0
- The Rank and File 1971 · ★ 6.8
- The Big Flame 1969 · ★ 6.8
- Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition 1970 · ★ 3.0
- Coast to Coast 1987 · ★ 7.0
- Sling Your Hook 1969 · ★ 8.0
- Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf 1978 · ★ 10.0
- Long Distance Information 1979 · ★ 10.0
- Long Shot 1978 · ★ 9.0
- There Is Also Tomorrow 1969 · ★ 7.0
- Match of the Day 1974
- Wear a Very Big Hat 1965
- Afternoon Off 1979
- Bag of Yeast 1976
- The Lump 1967
- Completely Bad News 2019