Neville Smith
Known for ActingBorn 1940-01-01Liverpool, 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).
Known for
Bad News
1983 · as Manager
Billy Liar
1963 · as Youth (uncredited)
Prick Up Your Ears
1987 · as Police Inspector
Wish You Were Here
1987 · as Cinema Manager
Afternoon Off
1979 · as Cyril
Coast to Coast
1987 · as Wedding Guest
Gumshoe
1971 · as Arthur
The Big Flame
1969 · as Strike Committee
In Two Minds
1967 · as Man at Pub
The End of Arthur's Marriage
1965 · as He
Long Shot
1978 · as Neville
There Is Also Tomorrow
1969 · as Izzy
Sling Your Hook
1969 · as Spider
Match of the Day
1974 · as Chance
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1978 · as Hopkins
Completely Bad News
2019 · as Manager
The Rank and File
1971 · as Jerry
Bag of Yeast
1976 · as Tony Scannell