A Tribute to Kevin Smith
Curated by NZ On Screen team 20 items
Kevin Smith was a versatile actor, who was successful both at home and abroad. The work collected here represents an exceptional career cruelly cut short.
Introduction
Actor Kevin Smith could do it all; from brooding like Brando in a Tennessee Williams play, through Xena, to the gentle romantic lead of Double Booking, and self-parody in Love Mussel. Collected here are selections from a career cut short (he died in a 2002 film-set accident). Plus tributes from James Griffin, Michael Hurst, Geoffrey Dolan and Simon Prast.
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Television
Collection Gallery
Following a traumatic event in the family home, Geoff (Kevin Smith) finds himself all at sea; a scene from the 1999 movie Channelling Baby.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.
Danielle Cormack as Bunnie and Kevin Smith as Geoff in Channelling Baby.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.
Kevin Smith as Geoff and Danielle Cormack as Bunnie in Channelling Baby.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.
Romance, seventies style: Kevin Smith as Geoff and Danielle Cormack as Bunnie in the movie Channelling Baby.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.
From left to right: Cliff Curtis as Fraser, Kevin Smith as Lawrence Hayes, Jennifer Ward-Lealand as Dorothea and Lisa Chappell as Anne Cooper.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.
Kevin Smith as Lawrence Hayes and Lisa Chappell as Anne Cooper in Desperate Remedies.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.
Kevin Smith as Lawrence Hayes in Desperate Remedies.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.
Kevin Smith as self-confident man about town Damien Vermeer, in eighties TV soap Gloss.
Kindly provided by The Dominion Post.
Kevin Smith as Paul Cosic, in TV series Marlin Bay.
A publicity photo of Kevin Smith.
Photo courtesy of RBA Management
Director Christine Parker with three of the cast of 1999 movie Channelling Baby: Bunny Walters (top), Danielle Cormack and Kevin Smith.
Photograph by Deborah Faith
Kevin Smith in a scene from Love Mussel.
Love Mussel: from left to right, actors Kevin Smith, Geoff Snell and Vicky Haughton.
Special thanks to:
NZ On Screen would like to thank Kevin's family, the Robert Bruce Agency, TVNZ, NZ Film Commission, South Pacific Pictures, and the many producers and colleagues who helped with the compilation of the Kevin Smith Tribute. This collection of work celebrates the talent of an actor we lost too soon and sorely miss.