
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).

Doctor Who
TV • 1963

BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965

The Wednesday Play
TV • 1964

The Wednesday Play
TV • 1964

The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982

Wish You Were Here
MOVIE • 1987

Prick Up Your Ears
MOVIE • 1987

Billy Liar
MOVIE • 1963

Gumshoe
MOVIE • 1971

Afternoon Off
MOVIE • 1979

Bad News
MOVIE • 1983

Long Shot
MOVIE • 1978

Coast to Coast
MOVIE • 1987

Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
MOVIE • 1978

Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror
MOVIE • 1964

The Big Flame
MOVIE • 1969

The Golden Vision
MOVIE • 1968

Completely Bad News
MOVIE • 2019