Neville Smith
Birthday: 1940-01-01
Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, UK
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).
Movies
Match of the Day
Chance has missed the match, but the girls at his sister's wedding might make up for it...
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Sling Your Hook
A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool....
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Wear a Very Big Hat
A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town....
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Wish You Were Here
In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed fa...
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Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentr...
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Afternoon Off
Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. T...
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Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition
A Marxist-Leninist expelled from the British Communist Party joins the Revolutionary Party of the Th...
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The End of Arthur's Marriage
In this off-beat musical – a satire that combines fantasy, social observation and songs – a working ...
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The Rank and File
Wilkinsons glass-works dominates a Staffordshire town. After a small walkout over pay discrepancies,...
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The Big Flame
After a prolonged industrial dispute in the Liverpool Docks, the striking workers reject management ...
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The Golden Vision
The obsessive supporters of Everton FC forsake wives, families and God to follow their beloved team....
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Long Distance Information
Play For Today written by and starring Neville Smith. Christian Harvey , a local radio DJ and ageing...
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Prick Up Your Ears
When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama sc...
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Long Shot
Against the backdrop of the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, two low-budget filmmakers attempt to talk...
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In Two Minds
Kate, a young girl under psychiatric examination, suffers from a lack of confidence, self-esteem and...
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Bag of Yeast
When teacher Tony Scannell decides he wants to be ordained as a Catholic Priest his decision has wid...
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After a Lifetime
Ken Loach's first production for ITV, shown under the 'Sunday Night Theatre' strand (originally broa...
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The Lump
The Lump is an uncompromising exploration of exploitation and resistance within the building trade....
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Bad News
A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up ...
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Completely Bad News
A double offering of heavy metal madness from The Comic Strip and Bad News....
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Billy Liar
A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertake...
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There Is Also Tomorrow
The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally ...
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Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror
The TARDIS materialises not far from Paris in 1794 — one of the bloodiest years following the French...
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Coast to Coast
Two guys meet, one American, a deserter from the US army, one Brit, and they are drawn together by t...
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