Ray Smith
Acting
Born 1936-05-01
Died 1991-12-15
Trealaw, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
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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.
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Acting
54 credits
Dempsey and Makepeace
Thriller
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Public Eye
The Main Chance
New Scotland Yard
Second City Firsts
We'll Meet Again
Target
Enemy at the Door
Masada
The Sunday Drama
Half Hour Story
Country Matters
The Informer
Colditz
Bill Brand
The Frighteners
Villains
A Question of Guilt
Sam
The Hanged Man
Shades of Darkness
Shadows of Fear
How Green Was My Valley
Madame Bovary
The Company of Five
Operation: Daybreak
The Mill on the Floss
Plays of Today
Struggle
Rogue Male
The Mill
Under Milk Wood
Plays for Pleasure
Moulded in Earth
Ring Out an Alibi
Stella
Shaggy Dog
Mucking Out
Made
The Trial of Klaus Barbie
The Informers
Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It
King Lear
The Ladies: Doreen
The Next Voice You See
The Painted Smile
The Sailor's Return
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Tomorrow at Ten
The Atom Spies
Bewitched
Candidate for Murder
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