KevinSmith
- Actor
Kevin Smith was the multi-talented actor who appeared in a host of television shows, starting with eighties soap Gloss. He also starred in three tele-movies as maverick private investigator John Lawless. His feature films include period melodrama Desperate Remedies, and offbeat drama Channelling Baby.
Screenography
Biography
He was proud to be identified as a Kiwi bloke. But the late Kevin Smith had no time for the boundaries sometimes foisted on blokes, or those blessed with movie star looks. A family man who loved to sing, play the guitar and crack a joke, he often got asked to play the bad guy; a sports lover who made a habit of using the playing styles of various All Blacks when describing acting, he was also, in the words of his friend Michael Hurst, "a writer and raconteur of great wit and sensitivity".
Awards
1999 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Actor: for Lawless
l1995 New Zealand Film and Television Awards
Best Supporting Actor: for Marlin Bay, series 3
“He came at things with such vigour that it was impossible not to go with him wherever he had decided to take you. He ate life, and loved the taste.”
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