Mel Smith
Highest Rated: 100% Babylon (1980)
Lowest Rated: 20% High Heels and Low Lifes (2001)
Birthday: Dec 3, 1952
Birthplace: Chiswick, London, England, UK
Mel Smith was a popular British comic actor, writer and director of TV and character actor of film who began his career as a busy and versatile stage director. Smith gained some notoriety on the trend-setting comedy "Not the Nine O'Clock News" (BBC, 1979-1982) with Griff Rhys Jones and Rowan Atkinson. Not unlike the early "Saturday Night Live," the series was an irreverent satirical revue that ran the gamut from purely tasteless to memorably brilliant. Smith teamed with Jones to write and star in the top-rated sketch-comedy program "Alas Smith and Jones" (BBC, 1984-1998). He acted in the stage versions of both series and directed "Not in Front of the Audience," based on "Not the Nine O'Clock News," and remained a key influence on later generations of British comedians. He died in 2013.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Christmas Angel | Uncle Richard (Character) | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | The Riddle | Unknown (Character) | - | 2007 |
| 41% | 42% | Blackball |
Director, Executive Producer |
- | 2003 |
| 20% | 50% | High Heels and Low Lifes | Director | $226.8K | 2001 |
| 43% | 53% | Bean | Director | $45.3M | 1997 |
| 76% | 80% | Twelfth Night | Sir Toby Belch (Character) | $551.5K | 1996 |
| 24% | 59% | Radioland Murders | Director | $1.2M | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Milner | Unknown (Character) | - | 1994 |
| 45% | 85% | Brain Donors | Rocco Melonchek (Character) | $504.1K | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 74% | Father Christmas | Father Christmas (Voice) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | The Wolves of Willoughby Chase | Mr. Grimshaw (Character) | - | 1989 |
| 85% | 66% | The Tall Guy | Director | $91.1K | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Wilt | Inspector Flint (Character) | $74.5K | 1989 |
| 97% | 94% | The Princess Bride | The Albino (Character) | $26.9M | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | Morons From Outer Space |
Bernard (Character), Writer |
$72.3K | 1985 |
| 34% | 49% | National Lampoon's European Vacation | Hotel Manager (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | 9% | Slayground | Terry Abbatt (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Number One | Billy Evans (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | 69% | Bullshot | Crouch (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bullshot Crummond | Crouch (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 100% | 45% | Babylon | Alan (Character) | $109.7K | 1980 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 96% | The Young Ones | Security Guard (Guest Star) | 1984 |