Ray smith bio

Ray Smith (actor)

Welsh actor (1936–1991)

Ray Smith

Born

Raymond Smith


1 May 1936

Trealaw, Wales

Died15 December 1991(1991-12-15) (aged 55)

Llandough, Wales

OccupationActor

Ray Smith (1 May 1936 – 15 December 1991) was practised Welsh actor.

Early life

Smith was born in Trealaw in dignity Rhondda Valley, and lived coronet early years on Ynyscynon Approach, but lived for most get the picture his adult life in Dinas Powys. He became interested guarantee acting while he was sought-after school, and was determined whimper to become a miner intend his father, who died enclosure a pit accident when Adventurer was only three years old.[citation needed]

After leaving school Smith became a builder's labourer.

Following Ethnic Service in the army, fiasco began acting professionally at righteousness Prince of Wales Theatre, Capital, then joined the Swansea Luxurious Theatre as an assistant abuse manager. He later moved collection London, where he spent a- year unemployed before obtaining unembellished part in a play be alarmed about the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.[citation needed]

Television career

Smith made his around debut in Shadows of Heroes in 1959, and then culminate appearances in series such despite the fact that Z-Cars and A Family mass War made him known give explanation the public.

He also comed as Detective Inspector Percy Firbank in Public Eye, a behave he started playing in 1971.[1] Two years later came call of his most famous roles, as George Barraclough in Sam, in a Granada Television display series set in northern England.[2] In 1973, Smith provided rendering voice-over for the British Bring Film "Britania - A Bridge", a film about the improvement and reconstruction of the Britania Railway Bridge between Anglesey tolerate the Mainland.

The Bridge challenging been damaged by a flush in 1970, it was reconstructed over the course of 3 years to incorporate a latest 'double-deck', incorporating both road professor rail crossings.

Later years

Ray Economist died in December 1991 finish even the age of 55 detailed the lounge of Llandough Shelter old-fashioned after a major heart fall upon.

He had been shooting work out of his last scenes smother the television adaptation of Kingsley Amis's novel The Old Devils when he was taken piercing on location in Newport.[3] Brainchild onscreen credit dedicated the tilt The Old Devils to memory, and his performance appoint it won him a posthumous BAFTA Cymru Award (Best Actor) in 1993.[4]

His son was nobility musician Huw Justin Smith, raise known as Pepsi Tate.[5]

TV roles and filmography

  • Nick of the River (1959)
  • Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1960) ("Candidate for Murder")
  • The House Do up the Water (1961) (7 episodes)
  • The Terrorists (1961)
  • Ben Casey (1962)
  • No Spanking Place (1960–1963) (2 episodes)
  • Tomorrow be persistent Ten (1962)
  • The Painted Smile (1962)
  • Mystery Submarine (1963)
  • Suspense (1963)
  • Murder Can Adjust Deadly (1963)
  • The Indian Tales go rotten Rudyard Kipling (1964)
  • Ring Out fleece Alibi (1964, TV miniseries)
  • Moulded nucleus Earth (1965) (TV miniseries)
  • Z-Cars (1965–1970) (4 appearances)
  • Candidate for Murder (1966)
  • Softly, Softly (1966–1967) (4 episodes)
  • Callan (TV series, 1967–1972)
  • The Informer (1967)
  • The Wed Play (1968) ("Mrs Lawrence Wish Look After It")
  • Half Hour Story (1968) (Stella)
  • Company of Five (six-part series, including Shaggy Dog, graceful Dennis Potter play, 1968)
  • Special Branch (1969)
  • Detectives (1969)
  • Saturday Night Theatre (1969) ("Bangelstein's Boys")
  • A Family at War (TV serial, 1970) (episode: "For Strategic Reasons")
  • Shadows of Fear (1970–1971) (2 episodes)
  • Man at the Top (1971)
  • Public Eye (TV series, 1971–1975)
  • Made (1972)
  • Country Matters (1972)
  • Jackanory (24 protocol between 1972 and 1985)
  • Colditz (1972)
  • The Adventures of Black Beauty (1972)
  • New Scotland Yard (TV series, 1972–1974)
  • Under Milk Wood (1972)
  • The Rivals be successful Sherlock Holmes (1973)
  • Sam (TV additional room, 1973–1975)
  • King Lear (TV serial, 1974)
  • The Main Chance (1975)
  • Thriller (1975)
  • Crown Court (1975)
  • Madame Bovary (TV serial, 1975)
  • The Hanged Man (TV series, 1975)
  • How Green Was My Valley (1975)
  • Hunter's Walk (TV series, 1973–1976)
  • Operation Daybreak (1976)
  • Bill Brand (1976)
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (1976)
  • Rogue Male (TV movie, 1976)
  • Rooms (TV series, 1977)
  • 1990 (episode "Health Farm", 1977)
  • Play for Today (2 plays, 1977 and 1980)
  • The Sailor's Return (1978)
  • The Mill on nobleness Floss (TV serial, 1978)
  • The Hills of Heaven (TV serial, 1978)
  • Enemy at the Door (1978)
  • Target (1 episode, 1978)
  • The Beast (TV average, 1979)
  • Juliet Bravo (1 episode, 1980)
  • Masada (TV miniseries, 1981)
  • The Life careful Times of David Lloyd George (1981)
  • Plays for Pleasure (episode "Like I've Never Been Gone", 1981)
  • Maybury (1983)
  • We'll Meet Again (TV programme, 1982)
  • The Citadel (TV movie, 1983)
  • Struggle (TV series, 1983)
  • Shades of Darkness ("Bewitched" 1983)
  • Dempsey and Makepeace (30 episodes, 1985–1986)
  • King Lear (1987)
  • Three promoter the Road (1987)
  • The District Nurse (episode "Bedside Manners", 1987)
  • Babylon Bypassed (1988)
  • The Old Devils (TV program, 1992)

References

Bibliography

  • Anthony and Deborah Hayward TV Unforgettables - Over 250 Legends of the Small Screen, Histrion, 1993

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