Place of Birth:
Liverpool, England, UK
Date of Birth:
1/1/1940
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).
Match of the Day
Sling Your Hook
Wear a Very Big Hat
Wish You Were Here
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Afternoon Off
Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition
The End of Arthur's Marriage
The Rank and File
The Golden Vision
The Big Flame
Gumshoe
Long Distance Information
Prick Up Your Ears
Long Shot
In Two Minds
Bag of Yeast
After a Lifetime
The Lump
Bad News
Completely Bad News
Billy Liar
There Is Also Tomorrow
Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror
Coast to Coast