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Mel Smith

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.

Highest rated movies

100% Babylon 96% The Princess Bride
76% Twelfth Night
45% Brain Donors
37% National Lampoon's European Vacation

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SLAYGROUND, Mel Smith, 1983, TM and copyright ©Universal Film Corp. All rights reserved HIGH HEELS AND LOW LIFES, Minnie Driver, Director Mel Smith, Mary McCormack, 2001 BRAIN DONORS, Bob Nelson, John Turturro, Mel Smith, 1992, (c)Paramount Pictures WILT, (aka THE MISADVENTURES OF MR. WILT), Mel Smith, (left), Griff Rhys Jones, (right), 1989, ©Samuel Goldwyn Company / BRAIN DONORS, Bob Nelson, John Turturro, Mel Smith, 1992, (c)Paramount Pictures PRINCESS BRIDE, THE, Mel Smith, Andre the Giant, Mandy Patinkin, 1987, TM & Copyright (c) 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved." TWELFTH NIGHT, Imogen Stubbs, Peter Gunn, Mel Smith, Richard E. Grant, 1996 MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE, Mel Smith (right), 1985. ©MGM MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE, Mel Smith, 1985. ©MGM MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE, Mel Smith, 1985. ©MGM MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE, Mel Smith (right), 1985. ©MGM WILT, (aka THE MISADVENTURES OF MR. WILT), Mel Smith, 1989. ©Samuel Goldwyn Films WILT, (aka THE MISADVENTURES OF MR. WILT), Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, 1989. ©Samuel Goldwyn Films WILT, (aka THE MISADVENTURES OF MR. WILT), Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, 1989. ©Samuel Goldwyn Films TWELFTH NIGHT, Mel Smith, Alan Mitchell, 1996, (c) Fine Line TWELFTH NIGHT, Mel Smith (right), 1996, (c) Fine Line MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE, from left: Griff Rhys Jones, Paul Bown, Mel Smith (front), Jimmy Nail, Joanne Pearce, 1985. ©MGM MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE, from left: Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, 1985. ©MGM TWELFTH NIGHT, Alan Mitchell, Mel Smith, Imelda Staunton, 1996, (c) Fine Line
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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% 51% 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
32% 60% 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
86% 66% The Tall Guy Director $91.1K 1989
No Score Yet 60% Wilt Inspector Flint (Character) $74.5K 1989
96% 94% The Princess Bride The Albino (Character) $26.9M 1987
No Score Yet 41% Morons From Outer Space Bernard (Character),
Writer 		$72.3K 1985
37% 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% 46% Babylon Alan (Character) $109.7K 1980

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 97% The Young Ones Security Guard (Guest Star) 1984