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
- Bewitched as Sylvester Brand
1982
1981
- Masada as Lentius
- The Life and Times of David Lloyd George as Aneurin Bevan
1978
- Enemy at the Door as John Weston
- Mucking Out as Thomas Loftus
- The Sailor's Return as Fred Leake
- The Mill on the Floss as Mr Tulliver
1977
- Target as MP Jack Sissons
- The Mayor's Charity as Charlie Harris
- 1990
1976
- Rogue Male as Fisherman
- Bill Brand as Moores
1975
- Madame Bovary as Homais
- The Hanged Man as Josef Milcjek
- Operation: Daybreak as Hájek
- How Green Was My Valley as Dai Bando
- The Next Voice You See as Ben Tamplin
1974
- King Lear as Kent
1973
- Thriller as Ben Tamplin
- Sam as George Barraclough
- Britannia: A Bridge as Narrator (Voice)
1972
- Crown Court
- Made as Policeman
- Colditz as Hans Hugenberg
- Under Milk Wood as Mr Waldo
1971
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Chief prison officer
1970
- Shadows of Fear as German
1969
- The Main Chance as Joe Holroyd
- The Ladies: Doreen as Eric
1968
- Stella as Man
- Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It as Stanley Maxwell
- Shaggy Dog as Mr Johnson
- The Company of Five
1966
- The Informer as Receptionist / Bouncer
1965
- Public Eye as Det. Insp. Percy Firbank
1964
- Ring Out an Alibi as Watty
1963
- Tomorrow at Ten as Mr. Briggs
- The Informers as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
1962
- Candidate for Murder as Chauffeur
- The Painted Smile as Glynn