Neville Smith

Liverpool, England, UK

Neville Smith

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)....

Known For

Match of the Day

Sling Your Hook

No Poster

Wear a Very Big Hat

Wish You Were Here

Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Afternoon Off

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