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).
Wish You Were Here
as Cinema ManagerIn a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her...
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Prick Up Your Ears
as Police InspectorWhen the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at...
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Billy Liar
as Youth (uncredited)A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an...
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Gumshoe
as ArthurA would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.
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Long Shot
as NevilleA budding Scottish film producer tries to get his ambitious Aberdeen-set western financed, and...
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Afternoon Off
as CyrilLee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little...
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The Rank and File
as JerryWilkinsons glass-works dominates a Staffordshire town. After a small walkout over pay...
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The Lump
as EddieThe Lump is an uncompromising exploration of exploitation and resistance within the building trade.
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Sling Your Hook
as SpiderA group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.
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Bad News Tour
as ManagerA documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick...
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Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition
as Liverpool DelegateA Marxist-Leninist expelled from the British Communist Party joins the Revolutionary Party of...
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Completely Bad News
as ManagerA double offering of heavy metal madness from The Comic Strip and Bad News.
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In Two Minds
as Man at PubKate, a young girl under psychiatric examination, suffers from a lack of confidence, self-esteem...
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The End of Arthur's Marriage
as HeIn this off-beat musical – a satire that combines fantasy, social observation and songs – a...
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Long Distance Information
as Christian HarveyPlay For Today written by and starring Neville Smith. Christian Harvey , a local radio DJ and...
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Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror
as D'ArgensonThe TARDIS materialises not far from Paris in 1794 — one of the bloodiest years following the...
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Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
as HopkinsA repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding,...
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The Golden Vision
as Vincent CoyneThe obsessive supporters of Everton FC forsake wives, families and God to follow their beloved...
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The Big Flame
as Strike CommitteeAfter a prolonged industrial dispute in the Liverpool Docks, the striking workers reject...
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Wear a Very Big Hat
as Johnny JohnsonA young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.
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Bag of Yeast
as Tony ScannellWhen teacher Tony Scannell decides he wants to be ordained as a Catholic Priest his decision has...
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Match of the Day
as ChanceChance has missed the match, but the girls at his sister's wedding might make up for it
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The Comic Strip Presents...
as ManagerThe Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are...
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The Wednesday Play
as uncreditedThe Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from...
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Thirty-Minute Theatre
as uncreditedThirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television...
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