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).

Cast

Match of the Day
Chance
Sling Your Hook
Spider
Wear a Very Big Hat
Johnny Johnson
Wish You Were Here
Cinema Manager
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Hopkins
Afternoon Off
Cyril
Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition
Liverpool Delegate
The End of Arthur's Marriage
He
The Rank and File
Jerry
The Big Flame
Strike Committee
The Golden Vision
Vincent Coyne
Gumshoe
Arthur
Long Distance Information
Christian Harvey
Prick Up Your Ears
Police Inspector
Long Shot
Neville
In Two Minds
Man at Pub
Bag of Yeast
Tony Scannell
After a Lifetime
Young Billy
The Lump
Eddie
Bad News
Manager
Completely Bad News
Manager
Billy Liar
Youth (uncredited)
There Is Also Tomorrow
Izzy
Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror
D'Argenson
Coast to Coast
Wedding Guest

Crew

Gumshoe
Writer
Apaches
Screenplay
Match of the Day
Writer
Some of My Best Friends...
Director
The World Cup: A Captain's Tale
Writer
After a Lifetime
Writer
Long Distance Information
Writer
Bag of Yeast
Writer
The Golden Vision
Writer