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Mel Smith (born in London on December 3, 1952) is an English actor, film director, writer, and producer. He attended New College, Oxford.

He made his breakthrough in the topically satirical BBC television series Not the Nine O'clock News. This was followed briefly by Smith and Goody (with Bob Goody) and then the comedy sketch series Alas Smith and Jones, co-starring Griff Rhys Jones, its title being a pun on the name of the American TV series Alias Smith and Jones.

In 1981, Smith and Griff Rhys Jones founded TalkBack Productions, a company which has produced many of the most significant British comedy shows of the past two decades, including Smack the Pony, Da Ali G Show, I'm Alan Partridge and Big Train.

In 1987, he recorded a single with Kim Wilde for Comic Relief, a cover of the Christmas song Rockin' around the Christmas tree with some extra comedy lines written by Smith and Rhys Jones.

Mel Smith also guest starred on an episode of The Goodies.

TV shows

Performer

Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979)
Smith And Goody (1980)
Fundamental Frolics (1981)
Alas Smith And Jones (1982)
Weekend In Wallop (1984)
Comedians Do It On Stage (1986)
The Home-made Xmas Video (1987)
The World According To Smith And Jones (1987)
Colin's Sandwich (1988)
Smith And Jones (1989)
Amnesty International's Big 30 (1991)
Comic Relief (1991)
The Night Of Comic Relief (1995)
A Gala Comedy Hour (Best Of The Prince's Trust) (1996)

Writer

Not The Nine O'clock News (1979)
Smith And Goody (1980)
Fundamental Frolics (1981)
Alas Smith And Jones (1982)
Weekend In Wallop (1984)
Comedians Do It On Stage (1986)
Smith And Jones (1989)
Amnesty International's Big 30 (1991)
A Gala Comedy Hour (Best Of The Prince's Trust) (1996)

Producer

Too Much Sun (2000)

Filmography

Director

The Tall Guy
(1989)
Radioland Murders
(1994)
Bean (1997)
High Heels and Low Lifes (2001)

Actor

Bullshot (1983) - Crouch
Slayground (1983) - Terry Abbatt
Morons from Outer Space (1985) - Bernard; also co-wrote the script with Griff Rhys Jones
The Princess Bride
(1987) - The Albino
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1988) - Mr. Grimshaw
Wilt (from a novel by Tom Sharpe) (1989) - Inspector Flint
Brain Donors
(aka Lame Ducks) (1992) - Rocco Melonchek
Twelfth Night (1996) - Sir Toby Belch

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