After a Lifetime

After a Lifetime

71 mins | Drama | July 18, 1971

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.

After a Lifetime

71 mins | Drama | July 18, 1971

After a Lifetime
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.
Producers Kestrel Films
Original title After a Lifetime
Directors Ken Loach
Writers Neville Smith

Cast

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