
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).

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