Philip Latham
Philip Latham was born on January 17, 1929 in Essex, England as Charles Philip Latham. He was an actor, known for Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966), The Treasure Seekers (1961) and Middlemarch (1968). He was married to Eve Pitt-Payne (12 September 1960 - 12 July 2010) ( her death) ( 2 children). He died on June 20, 2020 in England. Height: 6' 2" (1.88 m) He was educated at Felsted School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, from which he graduated in 1951. In the late 1960s/early 1970s he was well known to British TV viewers for his portrayal of chief accountant Willy Izard, the "conscience" to hard-nosed oil company industrialist Brian Stead (played by Geoffrey Keen) in the BBC series The Troubleshooters (1965–72). Other credits Jesus of Nazareth (1956), Paul of Tarsus, Danger Man (1960–1962), Maigret, The Treasure Seekers, The Avengers, Love Story, Undermind, UFO, The Saint, Sergeant Cork, Justice, The Cedar Tree, Killers, Hammer House of Horror, The Professionals, No. 10, and Nanny. One of his horror film roles was as Dracula's sinister servant Klove in Hammer's 1966 film Dracula, Prince of Darkness, and he had previously worked for Hammer in The Devil-Ship Pirates and The Secret of Blood Island (both 1964). His other film roles included appearances in Ring of Spies (1964), Spy Story (1976) and Force 10 from Navarone (1978). On television he played the joint-lead role of Plantagenet Palliser (opposite Susan Hampshire) in the 26-part BBC series The Pallisers. He also played Lord President Borusa in the 1983 20th anniversary episode of Doctor Who, The Five Doctors.
Force 10 from Navarone
as JensenWorld War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent...
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Dracula: Prince of Darkness
as KloveWhilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count...
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The Dam Busters
as Flight Sergeant (uncredited)The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr...
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The Devil-Ship Pirates
as MillerA pirate ship, fighting in 1588 on the side of the Spanish Armada, suffers damage and must put...
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The Last Grenade
as AdamsTwo ruthless mercenaries break their friendship when one of them changes sides.
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Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
as BorusaMany incarnations of the Doctors and their old companions are taken out of time and deposited in...
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Left Right and Centre
as a reporterAt the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the...
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Ring of Spies
as Captain RayThe film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled...
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From a Far Country
as ChaplainThis heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the...
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The Secret of Blood Island
as Cpt. DrakeBased on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW...
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The Two Faces of Evil
as HargreavesA family on holiday stop to pick up a mysterious hitch-hiker. Originally an episode of British...
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Spy Story
as Ferdy FoxwellA nuclear war specialist returns from a mission gathering data on Soviet communications and...
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Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
as Klove (archive footage) (uncredited)Documentary that chronicles the making of the third film in Hammer's Dracula series.
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The Monster of Highgate Ponds
as SchoolmasterThe story of three children who find themselves with a friendly monster that grows at an...
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Name for the Day
as Dr. MillhamClive decides he will go mad. Stark raving mad. His wife doesn't take him seriously, until Clive...
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Doctor Who
as BorusaThe adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores...
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The Avengers
as uncreditedThe Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr....
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The Professionals
as HoganThe lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their...
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The Saint
as Long HarrySimon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...
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The Saint
as Arthur EllshawSimon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...
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Play for Today
as Dr MillhamPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Father IgnatiusThe legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...
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UFO
as BlakeA secret, high-technology international agency called SHADO defends Earth from alien invaders.
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No Hiding Place
as uncreditedNo Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by...
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The Wednesday Play
as uncreditedThe Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from...
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Justice
as JardineJustice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long...
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Danger Man
as uncreditedDanger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again...
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Maigret
as uncreditedBBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector...
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The Troubleshooters
as Willy IzardThe Troubleshooters is a British television series made by the BBC between 1965 and 1972,...
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Hammer House of Horror
as HargreavesAnthology series, in which each self-contained episode featured a different kind of horror....
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The Human Jungle
as CooperThe Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the...
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The Scales of Justice
as Official ReceiverNot strictly TV productions, "The Scales of Justice" were cinema second features produced for...
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Detective
as uncreditedA BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three...
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ITV Play of the Week
as PearsonA UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to...
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The Pallisers
as uncreditedThis sprawling BBC saga follows an aristocratic family through three generations of power,...
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The Fourth Arm
as uncreditedThe twelve-part serial dealt with secret agents parachuted into occupied Europe during the...
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The Cedar Tree
as Arthur Bourne (1)The Cedar Tree was a television serial that ran from 1976-1979 on ITV in the United Kingdom. It...
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Justice
as uncreditedJustice is a British legal drama starring Robert Pugh as Judge Patrick Coburn. The first episode...
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