Melvin Kenneth Smith (3 December 1952 â€" 19 July 2013) was an English
comedian and film director. Smith worked on the sketch comedy shows
Not the Nine O'Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones with his comedy
partner, Griff Rhys Jones. Smith and Jones founded Talkback, which
grew to be one of the UK's largest producers of television comedy and
light entertainment programming.Smith's father, Kenneth, was born in
Tow Law, County Durham, and worked at a coal mine during the Second
World War; looking after the pit ponies. After the war ended, he moved
to London and married Smith's mother, whose parents owned a
greengrocers in Chiswick. When the government legalised high street
betting with the Betting and Gaming Act 1960, he turned the shop into
the first betting shop in Chiswick.Smith was born and brought up in
Chiswick. He was educated at Hogarth Primary School, Chiswick, and at
Latymer Upper School, an independent school in Hammersmith. He went on
to study Experimental Psychology at New College, Oxford.
comedian and film director. Smith worked on the sketch comedy shows
Not the Nine O'Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones with his comedy
partner, Griff Rhys Jones. Smith and Jones founded Talkback, which
grew to be one of the UK's largest producers of television comedy and
light entertainment programming.Smith's father, Kenneth, was born in
Tow Law, County Durham, and worked at a coal mine during the Second
World War; looking after the pit ponies. After the war ended, he moved
to London and married Smith's mother, whose parents owned a
greengrocers in Chiswick. When the government legalised high street
betting with the Betting and Gaming Act 1960, he turned the shop into
the first betting shop in Chiswick.Smith was born and brought up in
Chiswick. He was educated at Hogarth Primary School, Chiswick, and at
Latymer Upper School, an independent school in Hammersmith. He went on
to study Experimental Psychology at New College, Oxford.
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