
60 minutes
12/24/2013
A tribute to British comedian Mel Smith, who died in July 2013, aged 60, featuring home video footage, rare archive material and many classic sketches. Far more than a comic actor, Smith also wrote and edited a host of celebrated TV comedies in the 1980s and 90s. He was a theatre and film director, and as a TV producer he was responsible for several innovative comedy series. Friends and colleagues, including Griff Rhys Jones, John Lloyd and Richard Curtis, talk about Smith's talents, both in front of- and behind the camera. The programme also traces his time at Oxford and, before that, Latymer Upper School, where Smith's talents were first spotted.

Mel Smith
as Self (archive footage)

Rebecca Front
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Griff Rhys Jones
as Self

John Lloyd
as Self

Rowan Atkinson
as Self

Richard Curtis
as Self

Rory McGrath
as Self

Kevin McNally
as Self
Bob Goody
as Self

Stephen Poliakoff
as Self
Jon Plowman
as Self
Fulke Johnson Houghton
as Self

James Gay-Rees
as Self
Peter Brewis
as Self
Chris Hammond
as Self
Geoff Lavers
as Himself
Peter Fincham
as Self
Nicky Kentish Barnes
as Self
Anthony Pye-Jeary
as Self
David Tupman
as Self
Michael Robinson
as Self