Neville Smith
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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).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, UK
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Birthday: January 01, 1940
Age: 85 years old
Gender: Male
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Match of the Day
Overview: Chance has missed the match, but the girls at his sister's wedding might make up for it
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-18
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Sling Your Hook
Overview: A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-02
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Wear a Very Big Hat
Overview: A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-17
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Wish You Were Here
Overview: In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. Rebellious Lynda has been swearing constantly from an early age. At sixteen, she becomes more exhibitionist and seeks out sexual encounters challenging the prevailing lower-middle class attitudes to sex. She eventually becomes pregnant by an acquaintance of her father.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-24
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Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Overview: A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentric mother.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-02
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Afternoon Off
Overview: Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested in him, on his afternoon off work he buys a box of chocolates and sets off to find her.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-03
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Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition
Overview: A Marxist-Leninist expelled from the British Communist Party joins the Revolutionary Party of the Third World, sleeps around, and attempts to rethink his place within the revolution after the events of the 1968 May uprising in Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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The End of Arthur's Marriage
Overview: In this off-beat musical – a satire that combines fantasy, social observation and songs – a working class man goes to put a deposit on a new house only to find he prefers spending to saving and is happy to spend his money on a few hours of happiness rather than a lifetime's conventionality.
Genres: Music TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-17
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The Rank and File
Overview: Wilkinsons glass-works dominates a Staffordshire town. After a small walkout over pay discrepancies, the workers of the factory vote to go on strike, but they are denied support by their trade union.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-20
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The Golden Vision
Overview: The obsessive supporters of Everton FC forsake wives, families and God to follow their beloved team. Meanwhile, the club and its players try to live up to their expectations.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-17
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The Big Flame
Overview: After a prolonged industrial dispute in the Liverpool Docks, the striking workers reject management demands of a return to work and decide instead to occupy the docks and run the operation themselves.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-19
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Gumshoe
Overview: A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-01
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Long Distance Information
Overview: Play For Today written by and starring Neville Smith. Christian Harvey , a local radio DJ and ageing rocker, is an obsessive fan of Elvis and the news of Elvis's death is for him a personal tragedy as well as the end of an era.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-11
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Prick Up Your Ears
Overview: When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair. As Orton becomes more comfortable with his sexuality and starts to find success with his writing, Halliwell becomes increasingly alienated and jealous, ultimately tapping into a dangerous rage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-17
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Long Shot
Overview: Against the backdrop of the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, two low-budget filmmakers attempt to talk up some finance as they hunt for cash, cast and ‘name director’ Sam Fuller to shoot their Aberdeen-set oil-boom adventure ‘Gulf and Western’. Along the way, they encounter a plethora of filmmaking luminaries including Wim Wenders, Stephen Frears, John Boorman, Bill Forsyth and Alan Bennett.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-17
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In Two Minds
Overview: Kate, a young girl under psychiatric examination, suffers from a lack of confidence, self-esteem and self-control – telling of the “bad Kate” who commits immoral acts. Could the hypocrisy, selfishness and weakness of those around her have led to this state of mind or can Kate simply be diagnosed and dismissed as a schizophrenic?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-01
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Bag of Yeast
Overview: When teacher Tony Scannell decides he wants to be ordained as a Catholic Priest his decision has wide ranging effects on his family and loved ones.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-22
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After a Lifetime
Overview: Ken Loach's first production for ITV, shown under the 'Sunday Night Theatre' strand (originally broadcast 18th July 1971). After a Lifetime is something of a neglected, social realist masterpiece that focuses on two brothers, brought together by the death of their father, reflecting on his life of militancy and political activism. At the time critic Nancy Banks Smith called it ‘brilliantly funny, and moving with a sort of subterranean rage’. Smith himself plays the older brother with a brilliant, raw emotion.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-18
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The Lump
Overview: The Lump is an uncompromising exploration of exploitation and resistance within the building trade.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-01
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Bad News
Overview: A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up a schoolgirl groupie, and meet up with rock journalist Sally at a motorway service station where they argue about the cost of sausage and chips.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-24
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Completely Bad News
Overview: A double offering of heavy metal madness from The Comic Strip and Bad News.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-29
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Billy Liar
Overview: A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-15
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There Is Also Tomorrow
Overview: The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-19
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Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror
Overview: The TARDIS materialises not far from Paris in 1794 — one of the bloodiest years following the French Revolution of 1789. The travellers become involved with an escape chain rescuing prisoners from the guillotine and get caught up in the machinations of an English undercover spy, James Stirling — alias Lemaitre, governor of the Conciergerie prison.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-12
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Coast to Coast
Overview: Two guys meet, one American, a deserter from the US army, one Brit, and they are drawn together by their mutual love of Soul music. Neither being gainfully employed they decide to start a mobile disco service for fellow soul lovers, which leads them to buy an ice cream van, and the adventure begins. Before long they find themselves on the run from the bad guys and the police.
Genres: Comedy Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-04
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