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).
Acted in 29
2010s
- 2019
Completely Bad News
Manager
1980s
- 1987
Coast to Coast
Wedding Guest
- 1983
Bad News
Manager
- 1982
1970s
- 1979
Long Distance Information
Christian Harvey
Afternoon Off
Cyril
- 1978
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Hopkins
Long Shot
Neville
- 1976
Bag of Yeast
Tony Scannell
Red Letter Day
Tony · 1 episode
- 1974
Match of the Day
Chance
- 1971
Gumshoe
Arthur
- 1970
Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition
Liverpool Delegate
1960s
- 1969
There Is Also Tomorrow
Izzy
Sling Your Hook
Spider
- 1968
The Golden Vision
Vincent Coyne
- 1967
In Two Minds
Man at Pub
The Lump
Eddie
- 1965
Wear a Very Big Hat
Johnny Johnson
- 1964
Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror
D'Argenson
- 1963
Wrote 10
1980s
- 1982
The World Cup: A Captain's Tale
Writer
1970s
- 1979
Long Distance Information
Writer
- 1976
Bag of Yeast
Writer
Red Letter Day
Writer
- 1974
Match of the Day
Writer
- 1971
Gumshoe
Writer
- 1970
1960s
- 1969
- 1968
The Golden Vision
Writer
- 1964
Directed 1
1960s
- 1969
Some of My Best Friends...
Director