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Neville Smith is a Actor and Scriptwriter British born on january 1940
Neville Smith (born January 1940 in Liverpool) is a British screenwriter and actor who has contributed to numerous television productions, radio plays and movies.
After studying politics and history at the Hull University Smith worked as a teacher. Subsequently he became an announcer and from 1965 he wrote for BBC Radio. He took part in a total of 57 radio dramas. In 1964 Smith made his TV acting debut in the premiere episode of the Granada-ITV comedy drama series Villains He was also seen in the "A Land of Fear" episode of the Doctor Who story entitled The Reign of Terror. In 1968 he wrote his first screenplay, The Golden Vision for the BBC TV series The Wednesday Play
In the following years he appeared in episodes from television series like Cluff, Z-Cars, Thirty-Minute Theatre, Softly Softly, Her Majesty's Pleasure and The Wednesday Play. In 1971 the film Gumshoe, based on Smith's novel of the same name, was the first major film directorial assignment for Stephen Frears. Smith also played a small role in the film, the character Arthur whom Albert Finney consults about the gun before entering the docks.
In 1977 he wrote the screenplay to Apaches, a short documentary by John Mackenzie, about children playing on farms, which is a notorious public information film. Smith played the protagonist in his 1979 Play for Today about the death of Elvis Presley, Long Distance Information, directed by Stephen Frears. Smith's last appearances were in Wish You Were Here (1987) by David Leland and in the 1990 TV film Friends in Space.
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Neville Smith
After studying politics and history at the Hull University Smith worked as a teacher. Subsequently he became an announcer and from 1965 he wrote for BBC Radio. He took part in a total of 57 radio dramas. In 1964 Smith made his TV acting debut in the premiere episode of the Granada-ITV comedy drama series Villains He was also seen in the "A Land of Fear" episode of the Doctor Who story entitled The Reign of Terror. In 1968 he wrote his first screenplay, The Golden Vision for the BBC TV series The Wednesday Play
In the following years he appeared in episodes from television series like Cluff, Z-Cars, Thirty-Minute Theatre, Softly Softly, Her Majesty's Pleasure and The Wednesday Play. In 1971 the film Gumshoe, based on Smith's novel of the same name, was the first major film directorial assignment for Stephen Frears. Smith also played a small role in the film, the character Arthur whom Albert Finney consults about the gun before entering the docks.
In 1977 he wrote the screenplay to Apaches, a short documentary by John Mackenzie, about children playing on farms, which is a notorious public information film. Smith played the protagonist in his 1979 Play for Today about the death of Elvis Presley, Long Distance Information, directed by Stephen Frears. Smith's last appearances were in Wish You Were Here (1987) by David Leland and in the 1990 TV film Friends in Space.
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Wish You Were Here (1987)
, 1h32Directed by David Leland
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors Emily Lloyd, Tom Bell, Heathcote Williams, Jesse Birdsall, Geoffrey Hutchings, Charlotte Barker
Roles Cinema manager
Rating67%
Sixteen-year-old Lynda Mansell (Emily Lloyd) lives in a small English seaside town in the early 1950s. She is feisty and precocious and tries to shock other people with her vulgar and saucy tongue (her favourite insult is "Up yer bum"). Bored with conventional jobs (which she frequently loses) and her town's dull young men, Lynda has her first sexual experience with Dave (Jesse Birdsall) but after she has slept with one of her father's middle-aged friends (Tom Bell), her life changes. She becomes pregnant and her father, a somewhat rigid and conventional man, disowns her. Desperately she tries to seek an illegal abortion but in the end decides to become a mother.
Gumshoe (1971)
, 1h28Directed by Stephen Frears
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Transport films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Janice Rule, Bill Dean, Wendy Richard
Roles Arthur
Rating63%
Un détective privé se retrouve mêlé à une affaire de contrebande.
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Apaches (1977)
, 27minutesDirected by John Mackenzie
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror, Western
Rating70%
Several children play on a farm while a tea party is prepared. As the farmer drives his tractor through the field where the children are playing, While her friends follow behind, Kim jumps up onto the trailer, pretends the tractor is a train, and shoots at it. The tractor makes a turn, and she falls off and is run over, to the horror of the other children. At their school, the teacher removes Kim's name tag from a storage peg.
Gumshoe (1971)
, 1h28Directed by Stephen Frears
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Transport films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Janice Rule, Bill Dean, Wendy Richard
Rating63%
Un détective privé se retrouve mêlé à une affaire de contrebande.