Neville Smith

Born in Liverpool in 1940 Neville Smith a one time collaborator of director Ken Loach is one of a number of workingclass actors and writers to have transformed the subjectmatter and tone of television drama in the 1960s and 1970s He was responsible for two of Loachs finest television films The Golden Vision The Wednesday Play BBC tx 1741968 and After a Lifetime ITV tx 1871971 but also developed a partnership with the director Stephen Frears for whom he wrote the cult British detective film Gumshoe UKUS 1971