Personal Info
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).
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Completely Bad News
as Manager
Prick Up Your Ears
as Police Inspector
Wish You Were Here
as Cinema Manager
Coast to Coast
as Wedding Guest
Bad News
as Manager
Afternoon Off
as Cyril
Long Distance Information
as Christian Harvey
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
as Hopkins
Long Shot
as Neville
Bag of Yeast
as Tony Scannell
