Acting

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1 Jan 1940 (84)

Liverpool, England, UK

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Neville Smith

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).

Billy Liar

15 August 1963

Prick Up Your Ears

17 April 1987

Wish You Were Here

24 July 1987

Gumshoe

1 December 1971

The Comic Strip Presents...

2 November 1982

Bad News

24 January 1983

Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror

12 September 1964

Thirty-Minute Theatre

7 October 1965

The Wednesday Play

30 September 1964

The End of Arthur's Marriage

17 November 1965