Neville Smith
Born: 1940-01-01
• Liverpool, England, UK
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).
Filmography
Completely Bad News
Wish You Were Here
Prick Up Your Ears
Coast to Coast
Bad News
Long Distance Information
Afternoon Off
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Long Shot
Bag of Yeast
Match of the Day
Gumshoe
No Image
After a Lifetime
The Rank and File
Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition
There Is Also Tomorrow
Sling Your Hook
The Big Flame
The Golden Vision
In Two Minds
The Lump
The End of Arthur's Marriage
No Image
Wear a Very Big Hat
Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror
Billy Liar