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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).
Top Filmography
7.9
Doctor Who
1963 // TV
6.8
Billy Liar
1963 // MOVIE
6.7
Prick Up Your Ears
1987 // MOVIE
6.4
Wish You Were Here
1987 // MOVIE
6.3
Gumshoe
1971 // MOVIE
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982 // TV
6.3
Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror
1964 // MOVIE
5.0
BBC Play of the Month
1965 // TV
4.8
The End of Arthur's Marriage
1965 // MOVIE
8.7
Bad News
1983 // MOVIE
4.7
Film '72
1971 // TV
4.5
The Wednesday Play
1964 // TV
4.5
The Wednesday Play
1964 // TV
5.0
The Golden Vision
1968 // MOVIE
6.3
In Two Minds
1967 // MOVIE