Ray Smith
Born: 1936-05-01 in Trealaw, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Died: 1991-12-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
Ray Smith (1 May 1936 – 15 December 1991) was a Welsh actor who played the tough-talking police chief, Detective Superintendent Gordon Spikings, in the television series Dempsey and Makepeace. He was the first actor to play Brother Cadfael for BBC radio, and played a memorable Dai Bando in the BBC's 1975 adaptation of How Green Was My Valley - a touching performance given that Smith;s own father was a miner killed in a pit accident when Smith was just three years old. His final role work was in the TV adaptation of Kingsley Amis' novel, The Old Devils. He died just before filming concluded at the age of 55 from a massive heart attack and won the posthumous BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Actor in 1992.
Filmography
1992
- The Old Devils as Charlie Norris
1987
- The Trial of Klaus Barbie as Margaine
1985
- Dempsey and Makepeace as Spikings
1983
- Shades of Darkness as Sylvester Brand
- Bewitched as Sylvester Brand
1982
- We'll Meet Again as Albert Mundy
1981
- Masada as Lentius
- Plays for Pleasure as Clive Lewis
- The Life and Times of David Lloyd George as Aneurin Bevan
1980
- A Question of Guilt as Supt Foley
1979
- The Atom Spies as Doctor Cockcroft
1978
- Enemy at the Door as John Weston
- The Mill on the Floss as Mr Tulliver
- Mucking Out as Thomas Loftus
- The Sailor's Return as Fred Leake
1977
- Target as MP Jack Sissons
- The Sunday Drama as Harry
- 1990
- The Mayor's Charity as Charlie Harris
1976
- Bill Brand as Moores
- Rogue Male as Fisherman
1975
- Madame Bovary as Homais
- How Green Was My Valley as Dai Bando
- The Hanged Man as Josef Milcjek
- Operation: Daybreak as Hájek
- The Next Voice You See as Ben Tamplin
1974
- King Lear as Kent
1973
- Thriller as Ben Tamplin
- Second City Firsts as Thomas Loftus
- Sam as George Barraclough
- Britannia: A Bridge as Narrator (Voice)
1972
- Crown Court
- New Scotland Yard as Arthur Clevedon, QC
- Villains as Dave Swift
- The Frighteners as The Guvnor
- Colditz as Hans Hugenberg
- Country Matters as Mr Holland
- Under Milk Wood as Mr Waldo
- The Mill as Holland
- Made as Policeman
1971
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Chief prison officer
1970
- Shadows of Fear as German
1969
- The Main Chance as Joe Holroyd
- Plays of Today as Eric
- The Ladies: Doreen as Eric
1968
- The Company of Five as Arthur Gifford
- Stella as Man
- Shaggy Dog as Mr Johnson
- Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It as Stanley Maxwell
1967
- ITV Playhouse
- Callan
- Half Hour Story as The Man
- Sanctuary
1966
- The Informer as Receptionist / Bouncer
1965
- Public Eye as DI Percy Firbank
1964
- Ring Out an Alibi as Watty
1963
- The Informers as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
- Tomorrow at Ten as Mr. Briggs
1962
- The Painted Smile as Glynn
- Candidate for Murder as Chauffeur