Neville Smith
Acting
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).
As actor 31
Doctor Who
1963
Film '72
1971
BBC Play of the Month
1965
The Wednesday Play
1964
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
Second City Firsts
1973
Billy Liar
1963
Wish You Were Here
1987
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
Red Letter Day
1976
Gumshoe
1971
Long Shot
1978
Bad News
1983
Long Distance Information
1979
Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror
1964
Afternoon Off
1979
Completely Bad News
2019
The Big Flame
1969
Coast to Coast
1987
The End of Arthur's Marriage
1965
The Lump
1967
In Two Minds
1967
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1978
Match of the Day
1974
The Rank and File
1971
Sling Your Hook
1969
Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition
1970
The Golden Vision
1968
Bag of Yeast
1976
Wear a Very Big Hat
1965
There Is Also Tomorrow
1969
