Farewell Mel Smith, Comic, bookies son
both erudite and dopey, two pantomime dwarfs rolled into one
predestined for the stage was he
Drama was to the fore as he studied experimental psychology
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/celebrity-obituaries/10192703/Mel-Smith.html
Maybe it is still a little early to get the full picture, but in the meantime online comments to the above share a selection of his work, mostly via youtube.
This is more like it, the well rounded story of one "Melvyn Kenneth Smith, actor, writer, director and producer, born 3 December 1952; died 19 July 2013"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/jul/21/mel-smith