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Acting

James Smith

Career: Active from 1980 to 2025, with a break from 1987 to 2004, busiest in 2007 with 2 main titles.

Leading roles: 2
top three billing

Average score: 78/100

Highest rated: The Thick of It
89/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 28 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

James Smith Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Scare
1.2, average 2.6
Fantasy
0.4, average 1.7
Adrenaline
3.5, average 4.8
Coming of Age
1.8, average 3.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

British Sitcom 2
Media Manipulation 2
Character-Driven 2
Social Commentary 2
Fast-Paced Dialogue 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

39

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

6 titles · average score 73

Savage House

61

as Lord Wilbury, Art Dealer

Vanilla

as Lewis

Gen V

77

TV show · as Intruder #3

Live at the Moth Club

TV show · as Sergeant Fawley

One French Summer

Executive Producer

The Great

83

TV show · as Count Gorky of Norilsk

2010s

6 titles · average score 66

The Favourite

83

as Godolphin

Starhunter ReduX

52

TV show · as Colonel Bramwell

Carnage: Swallowing the Past

70

as Graham Watkins

Boomers

67

TV show · as Trevor

The Iron Lady

55

as Lord Carrington - Cabinet Minister

Grandma's House

71

TV show · as Clive Freeman

2000s

8 titles · average score 74

In the Loop

82

as Michael Rodgers

Spinners and Losers

86

as Glenn Cullen

The Rise of the Nutters

84

as Glenn Cullen

Magicians

42

as Richard

The Thick of It

89

TV show · as Glenn Cullen

The Armando Iannucci Shows

81

TV show · as Various Characters

The Parole Officer

59

as Tribunal Man

Buried Treasure

67

as Coroner

1990s

7 titles · average score 78

Daylight Robbery

TV show · as Magistrate

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

73

TV show · as Mr Maxwell

99-1

TV show · as Massingham

Heartbeat

80

TV show · as Mr. Dobson

as Superintendent

Sleepers

77

TV show · as Roger Stanley

Sleepers

83

as Roger Stanley

1980s

9 titles · average score 65

Dispatches

65

TV show · as Michael Scholar, HM Treasury

Lovejoy

50

TV show · as Charles Bullivant

TV show · as Toby Greene

American Playhouse

69

TV show · as Dr. Harrison

Wolcott

TV show · as CI Berry

Take a Letter, Mr Jones

TV show · as Robin Hayes

Rumpole's Return

69

as D.C. Jarwood

Oppenheimer

74

TV show · as Dr Harrison

Pews

as Hodge

1970s

3 titles · average score 79

The Boy Merlin

TV show · as Octa

The Professionals

78

TV show · as Pennington

Secret Army

81

TV show · as Dunlop