Ray Smith
Ray Smith (1 May 1936 – 15 December 1991) was a Welsh actor who played the tough-talking police chief, Detective Superintendent Gordon Spikings, in the television series Dempsey and Makepeace. He was the first actor to play Brother Cadfael for BBC radio, and played a memorable Dai Bando in the BBC's 1975 adaptation of How Green Was My Valley - a touching performance given that Smith;s own father was a miner killed in a pit accident when Smith was just three years old. His final role work was in the TV adaptation of Kingsley Amis' novel, The Old Devils. He died just before filming concluded at the age of 55 from a massive heart attack and won the posthumous BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Actor in 1992.
Operation: Daybreak
as HájekCzechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its...
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Under Milk Wood
as Mr WaldoThe delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called...
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Rogue Male
as FishermanIn 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot...
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The Next Voice You See
as Ben TamplinAn American jazz pianist, blinded in a London bank robbery ten years before, makes his first...
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The Painted Smile
as GlynnJo and Mark are working the "outraged husband" racket when they fall foul of the sinister...
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The Informers
as Police Sergeant (uncredited)When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close...
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Tomorrow at Ten
as Mr. BriggsA British policeman (John Gregson) tries to find a rich man's (Alec Clunes) son before a...
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Made
as PolicemanThis compelling emotional drama stars Carol White as a young single mother who finds herself...
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The Trial of Klaus Barbie
as MargaineDecades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice.
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The Mayor's Charity
as Charlie HarrisOlive Major is determined that her year of office as Mayor will be a happy and successful one....
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The Old Devils
as Charlie NorrisAn adaptation of the novel by Kingsley Amis about a group of university friends reunited in...
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King Lear
as KentWhen England's aging King Lear renounces his throne to divide his kingdom among his three...
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Shaggy Dog
as Mr JohnsonA no-nonsense businessman, Mr. Wilkie, is interviewed for a position with a top-of-the-line...
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The Sailor's Return
as Fred LeakeBased on the 1925 novel The Sailor's Return by David Garnett. A sailor returns to his hometown...
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Bewitched
as Sylvester BrandThe story is set in a small English coastal town, around the turn of the century. A young woman,...
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The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
as Aneurin BevanThe Life and Times of David Lloyd George charts the life of the controversial Liberal politician...
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Mucking Out
as Thomas Loftus'I'm an expert on pigs now. How many people can claim they've castrated 1.000 baby pigs? Not...
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Crown Court
as uncreditedCrown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the...
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Dempsey and Makepeace
as SpikingsDempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for...
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No Hiding Place
as uncreditedNo Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by...
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Public Eye
as Det. Insp. Percy FirbankPublic Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC...
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Public Eye
as FirbankPublic Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC...
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Public Eye
as Percy FirbankPublic Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC...
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The Main Chance
as Joe HolroydThe Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972...
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Thriller
as Ben TamplinThriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is...
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The Hanged Man
as Josef MilcjekAfter surviving a series of attempts on his life, successful businessman Lew Burnett decides to...
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Enemy at the Door
as John WestonEnemy At The Door is a British television drama series made by London Weekend Television for...
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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Chief prison officerAdaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.
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Colditz
as Hans HugenbergColditz is a British television series co-produced by the BBC and Universal Studios and screened...
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Callan
as uncreditedCallan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage....
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Bill Brand
as MooresFollowing the death of the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament, Bill Brand is selected as...
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1990
as uncreditedThe series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's...
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Shadows of Fear
as GermanAnthology series in which characters find themselves in weird and scary situations. Not evoked...
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How Green Was My Valley
as Dai BandoLife is harsh but uncomplicated and happy for the Morgan family in their coal mining village in...
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We'll Meet Again
as uncreditedIt's 1943 and the American Air Force has come to Market Weatherby, a small East Anglian town....
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Sam
as George BarracloughSam is a drama set in the coalfields of Yorkshire in the inter-war period.
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Madame Bovary
as HomaisFrancesca Annis and Tom Conti star in this acclaimed UK miniseries adaptation of Gustave...
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