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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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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 46% Babylon Watchlist 96% 94% The Princess Bride Watchlist
86% 66% The Tall Guy
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76% 80% Twelfth Night
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50% 85% Brain Donors
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38% 42% Blackball
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37% 49% National Lampoon's European Vacation
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33% 60% Radioland Murders
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20% 51% High Heels and Low Lifes
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Mel Smith 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 View more photos

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Christmas Angel 2011 Uncle Richard Actor The Riddle 20% 2007 Actor Blackball 38% 42% 2003 Director, Executive Producer High Heels and Low Lifes 20% 51% 2001 Director Bean 43% 53% 1997 Director Twelfth Night 76% 80% 1996 Sir Toby Belch Actor Radioland Murders 33% 60% 1994 Director Milner 1994 Actor Brain Donors 50% 85% 1992 Rocco Melonchek Actor Father Christmas 74% 1991 Father Christmas Voice The Wolves of Willoughby Chase 62% 1989 Mr. Grimshaw Actor The Tall Guy 86% 66% 1989 Director Wilt 60% 1989 Inspector Flint Actor The Princess Bride 96% 94% 1987 The Albino Actor Morons From Outer Space 41% 1985 Bernard Actor, Writer National Lampoon's European Vacation 37% 49% 1985 Hotel Manager Actor Slayground 9% 1984 Terry Abbatt Actor Number One 1984 Billy Evans Actor Bullshot 69% 1983 Crouch Actor Bullshot Crummond 1983 Crouch Actor Babylon 100% 46% 1980 Alan Actor
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