Neville Smith
Date of birth: 1940-01-01
Place of birth: Liverpool, England, UK
Known for: Acting
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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).
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Match of the Day
1974-03-18
Chance has missed the match, but the girls at his sister's wedding might make up for it
Sling Your Hook
1969-04-02
A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.
Wear a Very Big Hat
1965-02-17
A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.
Wish You Were Here
1987-07-24
In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed fa
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1978-12-02
A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentr
Afternoon Off
1979-02-03
Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. T
Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition
1970-01-01
A Marxist-Leninist expelled from the British Communist Party joins the Revolutionary Party of the Th
The End of Arthur's Marriage
1965-11-17
In this off-beat musical – a satire that combines fantasy, social observation and songs – a working
The Big Flame
1969-02-19
After a prolonged industrial dispute in the Liverpool Docks, the striking workers reject management
The Rank and File
1971-05-20
Wilkinsons glass-works dominates a Staffordshire town. After a small walkout over pay discrepancies,
The Golden Vision
1968-04-17
The obsessive supporters of Everton FC forsake wives, families and God to follow their beloved team.
Gumshoe
1971-12-01
A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.
Long Distance Information
1979-10-11
Play For Today written by and starring Neville Smith. Christian Harvey , a local radio DJ and ageing
Prick Up Your Ears
1987-04-17
When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama sc
Long Shot
1978-11-17
Against the backdrop of the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, two low-budget filmmakers attempt to talk
In Two Minds
1967-03-01
Kate, a young girl under psychiatric examination, suffers from a lack of confidence, self-esteem and
Bag of Yeast
1976-02-22
When teacher Tony Scannell decides he wants to be ordained as a Catholic Priest his decision has wid
After a Lifetime
1971-07-18
Ken Loach's first production for ITV, shown under the 'Sunday Night Theatre' strand (originally broa
The Lump
1967-02-01
The Lump is an uncompromising exploration of exploitation and resistance within the building trade.
Bad News
1983-01-24
A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up
Completely Bad News
2019-11-29
A double offering of heavy metal madness from The Comic Strip and Bad News.
Billy Liar
1963-08-15
A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertake
There Is Also Tomorrow
1969-11-19
The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally
Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror
1964-09-12
The TARDIS materialises not far from Paris in 1794 — one of the bloodiest years following the French
Coast to Coast
1987-01-04
Two guys meet, one American, a deserter from the US army, one Brit, and they are drawn together by t