Mel SmithNationality:
English Birthdate:
12/03/1952 Birthplace:
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biography
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, 1979-82) 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 Rhys-Jones to write and star in the top-rated sketch comedy program "Alas Smith and Jones". He acted in the stage versions of both series and
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milestones
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Milestone
Began performing while at Oxford
Toured the US with the Oxford/Cambridge Sshakespeare Company; played Touchstone in "As You Like It"
First professional job, as assistant director at the Royal Court Theatre, London
Awarded an Arts Council grant to direct plays at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield
Became associate director at the Old Vic
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