After a Lifetime

Synopsis

Ken 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.

Main Cast

Neville Smith

Young Billy

Age : 84 | Popularity : 5%

Bill Dean

Uncle Sid

Age : 78 | Popularity : 3%

Peter Kerrigan

Uncle John

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Johnny Gee

Frank

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Len Annett

Joe Horrigon

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Rosalind Elliot

Maureen

Age : 76 | Popularity : 3%

Jimmy Coleman

Aloysius

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Joan Flood

Cissie

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Camera	Director of Photography	Chris Menges
Directing	Director	Ken Loach
Production	Producer	Tony Garnett
Writing	Writer	Neville Smith
Department	Role	Name

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