Roderick Smith

Acting
1952-06-02
Dulwich, London, England, UK

Biography

Roderick Smith is a British actor known for his regular roles in the BBC dramas Angels (1975) and Dangerfield (1995), and Apple's comedy Trying (2020). He regularly performs with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has appeared in productions such as Love's Labour's Lost (2015) and Hamlet (2009).

Known For & Full Filmography18 Titles

#1Doctor Who

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes as Cruikshank

7.9 / 10
DramaAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

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#2Trying

Drama Series - 2020, 16 episodes as John Newman

7.6 / 10
Comedy

All Nikki and Jason want is a baby—the one thing they can't have. So they decide to adopt. With their dysfunctional friends, screwball families, and chaotic lives, will the adoption panel agree that they're ready to be parents?

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#3Trying

Drama Series - 2020, 16 episodes as John

7.6 / 10
Comedy

All Nikki and Jason want is a baby—the one thing they can't have. So they decide to adopt. With their dysfunctional friends, screwball families, and chaotic lives, will the adoption panel agree that they're ready to be parents?

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#4The Man from Snowy River

Drama Series - 1994, 16 episodes as Whiskers

7.1 / 10
DramaWestern

The Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River". Released in Australia as Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River, the series was subsequently released in both the United States and the United Kingdom as Snowy River: The McGregor Saga. The television series has no relationship to the 1982 film The Man from Snowy River or the 1988 sequel The Man from Snowy River II. Instead, the series follows the adventures of Matt McGregor, a successful squatter, and his family. Matt is the hero immortalized in Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River", and the series is set 25 years after his famous ride.

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#5The Story of Tracy Beaker

Drama Series - 2002, 16 episodes as Gordon

6.5 / 10
KidsFamilyAnimation

Tracy Beaker is a 10-year-old girl who has been placed in a children's home. Tracy makes new friends along the way and causes mischief wherever she goes.

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#6The Paradise Club

Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes as Gary Belstead

6.2 / 10
DramaCrime

Focuses on brothers Frank and Danny Kane. Their mother is the matriarch of a South London criminal gang, assisted by Danny. Frank has become a priest but leaves the church; he inherits The Paradise Club following the death of their mother and returns to London to try and steer Danny away from crime.

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#7Please Sir!

Drama Series - 1968, 16 episodes as Philip Larch

7.0 / 10
Comedy

A hapless but caring teacher tries to control his class of unruly kids. The teacher sees much good and potential in his pupils, much to the dismay of his fellow teachers who have lost hope in these kids.

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#8Dangerfield

Drama Series - 1995, 16 episodes as Sgt Keith Lardner

7.0 / 10
CrimeDrama

Dangerfield is a British drama series about a small town doctor / police surgeon, which ran for 6 series, between 1995 and 1999. Originally Nigel Le Vaillant played the central role, but this character later left the series, the focus switching to his replacement, played by Nigel Havers. The BBC decided to end the series in November 1999 when Nigel Havers announced his decision to quit. The BBC felt viewers would not find the series credible if the main character was changed for a second time. The show like a number of other BBC dramas of the 1980s and 1990s also featured a number of borderline fantasy episodes. These included "Tricks", "Angel" and "Haunted". The TV trailers for Dangerfield were heavily parodied by The Fast Show in which the character was called Monkfish and would appear as a tough uncompromising Doctor, Policeman, vet and even as an interior designer with titles mixed in with other BBC shows of the time.

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#9The Firm

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m as Cliffie

6.5 / 10
DramaCrime

A seemingly respectable estate agent leads a double life as the head of a vicious, well-organised gang of football hooligans. When 'The Firm' decide to confront a rival gang, it ends in tragedy.

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#10Carry On Behind

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m as Student (uncredited)

5.5 / 10
Comedy

Professors Vooshka and Crump decide to visit an archaeological site to study the artifacts there. Lo and behold, it's right next to a caravan site where all manner of people are staying. With a randy Major owning the site, a snobbish mother, and the two professors' constant innuendos, the story ends with a sinking caravan site and a striptease performance as a replacement for the cabaret night.

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#11Hamlet

Movie - 2009, 2h 15m as Voltemand

7.3 / 10
DramaTV Movie

David Tennant stars in a film of the Royal Shakespeare Company's award-winning production of Shakespeare's great play. Director Gregory Doran's modern-dress production was hailed by the critics as thrilling, fast-moving and, in parts, very funny.

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#12Lennon Naked

Movie - 2010, 2h 15m as Journalist

5.5 / 10
DramaTV Movie

A profile of John Lennon in the late 1960s as the Beatles are set to fall apart.

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#13RSC Live: Love's Labour's Lost

Movie - 2015, 2h 15m as Marcadé

8.8 / 10
ComedyRomance

A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.

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#14The Haunted Hotel

Movie - 2021, 2h 15m as Willy Urlowe ("The Contraption")

5.5 / 10
Horror

A compendium of eight ghost stories, all set within an abandoned hotel in Suffolk.

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#15RSC Live: Love's Labour's Won

Movie - 2015, 2h 15m as Verges

8.8 / 10
RomanceComedy

Christopher Luscombe directs one of Shakespeare's great romantic comedies. Labour's Won the world has changed forever, the roaring ’20s just around the corner. With Edward Bennett and Michelle Terry as the sparring couple.

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#16Beyond Fear

Movie - 1997, 2h 15m as Detective

9.0 / 10

The true story of Stephanie Slater, a British estate agent who was kidnapped, raped, and held for ransom by Michael Sams, who imprisoned her in a coffin-like box for eight days.

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#17Over There

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as Hiseman

8.8 / 10

'It's like the Sealed Knot innit, it's historical.' A group of World War II enthusiasts forgather in the Lake District to do battle with a similarly devoted group of Waffen SS, especially imported from Gravesend. Of course, Windermere 1979 is not Normandy 1944, but for some, perhaps wishing will make it so?

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#18People Will Always Need Coal

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m as Miner (uncredited)

8.8 / 10

Deliriously kitsch recruitment ad for the implausibly glamorous world of coalmining.

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