After a Lifetime
1971Ken Loach's first production for ITV, shown under the 'Sunday Night Theatre' strand (originally broadcast 18th July 1971). After a Lifetime is something of a neglected, social realist masterpiece that focuses on two brothers, brought together by the death of their father, reflecting on his life of militancy and political activism. At the time critic Nancy Banks Smith called it ‘brilliantly funny, and moving with a sort of subterranean rage’. Smith himself plays the older brother with a brilliant, raw emotion.
Acted in
Neville Smith
as Young Billy
Bill Dean
as Uncle Sid
Peter Kerrigan
as Uncle John
Johnny Gee
as Frank
Len Annett
as Joe Horrigon
Rosalind Elliot
as Maureen
Jimmy Coleman
as Aloysius
Joan Flood
as Cissie
Joey Kaye
as Mike
Sammy Sharples
as Uncle Gus
Laidlaw Dalling
as Doctor
Bert King
as Undertaker
Pat Gillon
as Mr Pimblett
Ernie Mack
as Insurance Agent