Neville Smith
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).
Movie Appearances
Match of the Day
as Chance
1974
Sling Your Hook
as Spider
1969
Wear a Very Big Hat
as Johnny Johnson
1965
Wish You Were Here
as Cinema Manager
1987
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
as Hopkins
1978
Afternoon Off
as Cyril
1979
Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition
as Liverpool Delegate
1970
The End of Arthur's Marriage
as He
1965
The Rank and File
as Jerry
1971
The Big Flame
as Strike Committee
1969
The Golden Vision
as Vincent Coyne
1968
Gumshoe
as Arthur
1971
Long Distance Information
as Christian Harvey
1979
Prick Up Your Ears
as Police Inspector
1987
Long Shot
as Neville
1978
In Two Minds
as Man at Pub
1967
Bag of Yeast
as Tony Scannell
1976
The Lump
as Eddie
1967
Bad News
as Manager
1983
Completely Bad News
as Manager
2019
