Personal Info
Ray Smith
Acting
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 …
Filmography
Movies
The Old Devils
as Charlie Norris
The Trial of Klaus Barbie
as Margaine
Bewitched
as Sylvester Brand
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
as Aneurin Bevan
The Sailor's Return
as Fred Leake
Mucking Out
as Thomas Loftus
The Mayor's Charity
as Charlie Harris
Rogue Male
as Fisherman
Operation: Daybreak
as Hájek
The Next Voice You See
as Ben Tamplin
TV Shows
Dempsey and Makepeace
as Spikings · 30 ep.
We'll Meet Again
as Albert Munday · 13 ep.
Masada
as Lentius · 1 ep.
Enemy at the Door
as John Weston · 1 ep.
The Mill on the Floss
as Mr Tulliver · 6 ep.
Target
as MP Jack Sissons · 1 ep.
1990
1 ep.
The Sunday Drama
as Harry · 1 ep.
Bill Brand
as Moores · 2 ep.
The Hanged Man
as Josef Milcjek · 1 ep.