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Michael Latimer
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Michael Latimer
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1941-09-06,Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]
Gender
Male
Biography
Michael James Latimer (6 September 1941 – 25 June 2011) was a British television stage and film actor who later in his career turned to writing, directing and producing. Latimer was born in Calcutta, where his father had a business, and was educated at the Leys School in Cambridge from 1955 to 1959, where he was a middle-distance runner and played rugby for the English Schoolboys Team. Upon leaving school, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) for two years, and on leaving began acting in cabaret revues. He stood in for Peter Cook in Beyond the Fringe when the original cast took the show to New York. He appeared in various repertory and West End productions. His television appearances included The Avengers (1966–67), Sexton Blake (1968), Man at the Top (1972), Van der Valk (1972–73), in which he played Johnny Kroon alongside Barry Foster as Van der Valk, Special Branch (1973), Marked Personal (1973), Village Hall (1974), Crown Court (1974–76), The Sweeney (1975), Quiller (1975), The New Avengers (1977), Spectre (1977), Z-Cars (1978), The Professionals (1978), Maggie and Her (1979), Hammer House of Horror (1980) and Rumpole of the Bailey (1988). His film roles include A Man for All Seasons (1966), Prehistoric Women (1967) opposite Martine Beswick, Mosquito Squadron (1969), Man of Violence (1969), Got It Made (1974) and Sweeney! (1977). Latimer was the stage director for the first Johnny Nash and Bob Marley tours of the United Kingdom in 1972. He set up his own production company, Bedrock Productions; this had three top twenty hits in the German music charts for Hansa and Ariola Records. His writing for television included The Rovers (1970), the BBC play The Interview and also four episodes of Sons and Daughters (1983). He taught at RADA, London Academy of Performing Arts (LAPA) and at drama school in Australia. As a director he worked on television commercials in Australia and directed some 37 theatre productions in the United Kingdom, including Daniel Magee's play Paddywack (1994) with James Nesbitt at the Cockpit Theatre in Marylebone Latimer died at Trinity Hospice in Clapham, London, in 2011, aged 69.

Filmography

A Man for All Seasons

7.333

A Man for All Seasons
1966-12-13

5

Slave Girls
1967-02-25

Man of Violence

5.75

Man of Violence
1970-06-01

3.2

Project Alien
1990-12-21

0

Bedtime
1967-01-01

5

Got It Made
1974-12-12

6.2

Spectre
1977-05-21

6.8

Sweeney!
1977-01-14

Henry Intervening

0

Henry Intervening
1979-11-29

7.8

The Sweeney
1975-01-02

5.8

Van der Valk
1972-09-13

Hammer House of Horror

7.1

Hammer House of Horror
1980-09-13

7.7

The Avengers
1961-01-07

The Professionals

7.5

The Professionals
1977-12-30

The Professionals

7.5

The Professionals
1977-12-30

This Year Next Year

0

This Year Next Year
1977-01-25

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

0

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1967-01-15

The New Avengers

7

The New Avengers
1976-10-22

Rumpole of the Bailey

7.2

Rumpole of the Bailey
1975-12-17