1963Nominee
Best Performance
Billy Liar
Neville Smith
Actor · Director · Writer
Liverpool, England, UK
January 1, 1940
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).
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1987Nominee
Best Performance
Wish You Were Here
1987Nominee
Best Performance
Prick Up Your Ears
Career Highlights
1983Highlight
Best Performance
Bad News
1978Highlight
Best Performance
Long Shot
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Billy Liar
Wish You Were Here
Prick Up Your Ears