Neville was born in Wallsend-on-Tyne. He began his working life as a financial director in his father’s engineering company. He did National Service and was stationed in Germany in the Royal Horse Artillery.
A keen interest in amateur theatre led him to train at LAMDA where he won the bronze, silver and gold medals for acting, verse-speaking and elocution.
He picked up some voiceover work for the regional broadcaster Tyne Tees TV in Newcastle.
In 1961, he joined the BBC as a radio newsreader for the Home Service North region and in 1971 moved to ITV where he would be a continuity mainstay for Tyne Tees TV. He was the station’s chief announcer until 1988, when he retired.
During the early 1970s, he did some freelance work and appeared as a continuity announcer at Border TV, covering holidays.
He continued as a relief announcer at Tyne Tees TV until 1991 and later broadcast on local hospital radio in the north east of England and presented his own radio show for Radio Tees, Great North Radio, Century and Radio Tyneside.
He worked as an extra and acted as the chip shop owner in And a Nightingale Sang (1989) and as a news announcer in Spender (BBC One, 1991).
He married Pat in July 1960 and they had a daughter Melanie, born in 1965.
Neville passed away in North Tyneside General Hospital, aged 89.
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