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Acting

James Smith

Titles: 16movies23TV shows

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

Politics
6.0average 2.6
Wit & Wordplay
6.6average 3.7
Satire & Parody
5.1average 2.3
Situational Comedy
4.8average 2.7
Social Commentary
6.9average 4.9
Class & Capitalism
5.2average 3.3
Dark Humor
4.6average 2.8
Cringe Humor
3.7average 2.2

Rarely in their work

Scare
1.1, average 2.6
Adrenaline
3.5, average 4.9
Fantasy
0.4, average 1.7
Coming of Age
1.7, average 3.0

Main genres

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Comedy 7
Drama 4
TV Movie 2

Recurring tags

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

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

39

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Newest first Oldest first

2020s

6 titles · average score 74

Savage House

as Lord Wilbury, Art Dealer

Vanilla

as Lewis

Gen V

TV show · as Intruder #3

Live at the Moth Club

TV show · as Sergeant Fawley

One French Summer

Executive Producer

The Great

TV show · as Count Gorky of Norilsk

2010s

6 titles · average score 66

The Favourite

as Godolphin

Starhunter ReduX

TV show · as Colonel Bramwell

Carnage: Swallowing the Past

as Graham Watkins

Boomers

TV show · as Trevor

The Iron Lady

as Lord Carrington - Cabinet Minister

Grandma's House

TV show · as Clive Freeman

2000s

8 titles · average score 74

In the Loop

as Michael Rodgers

Spinners and Losers

as Glenn Cullen

The Rise of the Nutters

as Glenn Cullen

Magicians

as Richard

The Thick of It

TV show · as Glenn Cullen

The Parole Officer

as Tribunal Man

The Armando Iannucci Shows

TV show · as Various Characters

Buried Treasure

as Coroner

1990s

7 titles · average score 78

Daylight Robbery

TV show · as Magistrate

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

TV show · as Mr Maxwell

99-1

TV show · as Massingham

Heartbeat

TV show · as Mr. Dobson

as Superintendent

Sleepers

TV show · as Roger Stanley

Sleepers

as Roger Stanley

1980s

9 titles · average score 65

Dispatches

TV show · as Michael Scholar, HM Treasury

Lovejoy

TV show · as Charles Bullivant

TV show · as Toby Greene

American Playhouse

TV show · as Dr. Harrison

Take a Letter, Mr Jones

TV show · as Robin Hayes

Wolcott

TV show · as CI Berry

Rumpole's Return

as D.C. Jarwood

Oppenheimer

TV show · as Dr Harrison

Pews

as Hodge

1970s

3 titles · average score 79

The Boy Merlin

TV show · as Octa

The Professionals

TV show · as Pennington

Secret Army

TV show · as Dunlop