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Michael Latimer

Michael Latimer

Actor · 1941 – 2011 · Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]

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.

Series11

  • TV7.8

    The Avengers

    1961 · 156 votes

  • TV8.1

    The Sweeney

    1975 · 28 votes

  • TV7.6

    The Professionals

    1977 · 47 votes

  • TV7.1

    Rumpole of the Bailey

    1975 · 24 votes

  • TV7.2

    The New Avengers

    1976 · 52 votes

  • TV6.2

    Van der Valk

    1972 · 10 votes

  • TV7.1

    Hammer House of Horror

    1980 · 73 votes

  • TV6.8

    The World of Hammer

    1994 · 4 votes

  • TV
  • TV10.0

    Victorian Scandals

    1976 · 1 votes

  • TV7.0

    This Year Next Year

    1977 · 1 votes

Movies8

  • Movie7.3

    A Man for All Seasons

    1966 · 515 votes

  • Movie5.0

    Slave Girls

    1967 · 32 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Sweeney!

    1977 · 28 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Spectre

    1977 · 14 votes

  • Movie9.0

    Bedtime

    1967 · 1 votes

  • Movie3.5

    Project Alien

    1990 · 11 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Got It Made

    1974 · 3 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Man of Violence

    1970 · 17 votes