Philip Latham

Born: 1929-01-17

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.


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Force 10 from Navarone

as Jensen
Released: 1978-08-16

World 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 Klove
Released: 1966-01-09

Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count...

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The Dam Busters

as Flight Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: 1955-05-16

The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr...

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From a Far Country

as Chaplain
Released: 1981-09-15

This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the...

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The Devil-Ship Pirates

as Miller
Released: 1964-08-01

A pirate ship, fighting in 1588 on the side of the Spanish Armada, suffers damage and must put...

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Spy Story

as Ferdy Foxwell
Released: 1976-01-01

A nuclear war specialist returns from a mission gathering data on Soviet communications and...

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Left Right and Centre

as a reporter
Released: 1959-06-23

At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the...

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Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

as Borusa
Released: 1983-11-25

Many incarnations of the Doctors and their old companions are taken out of time and deposited in...

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The Two Faces of Evil

as Hargreaves
Released: 1980-11-29

A family on holiday stop to pick up a mysterious hitch-hiker. Originally an episode of British...

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The Secret of Blood Island

as Cpt. Drake
Released: 1964-12-01

Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW...

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Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness

as Klove (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 2012-04-30

Documentary that chronicles the making of the third film in Hammer's Dracula series.

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Ring of Spies

as Captain Ray
Released: 1964-03-23

The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled...

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The Monster of Highgate Ponds

as Schoolmaster
Released: 1961-05-01

The 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. Millham
Released: 1980-12-16

Clive decides he will go mad. Stark raving mad. His wife doesn't take him seriously, until Clive...

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Doctor Who

as Borusa
First aired: 1963-11-23

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores...

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Play for Today

as uncredited
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

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No Hiding Place

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-09-16

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by...

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UFO

as Blake
First aired: 1970-09-16

A secret, high-technology international agency called SHADO defends Earth from alien invaders.

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Father Ignatius
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

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The Wednesday Play

as uncredited
First aired: 1964-09-30

The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from...

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The Avengers

as uncredited
First aired: 1961-01-07

The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr....

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The Professionals

as Hogan
First aired: 1977-12-30

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their...

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The Human Jungle

as Cooper
First aired: 1963-03-30

The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the...

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Hammer House of Horror

as Hargreaves
First aired: 1980-09-13

Anthology series, in which each self-contained episode featured a different kind of horror....

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The Saint

as Long Harry
First aired: 1962-10-04

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...

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The Saint

as Arthur Ellshaw
First aired: 1962-10-04

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...

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The Scales of Justice

as Official Receiver
First aired: 1962-01-11

Not strictly TV productions, "The Scales of Justice" were cinema second features produced for...

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ITV Play of the Week

as Pearson
First aired: 1955-09-27

A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to...

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Maigret

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-10-31

BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector...

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Detective

as uncredited
First aired: 1964-03-30

A BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three...

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Justice

as Jardine
First aired: 1971-10-08

Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long...

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Danger Man

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-09-11

Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again...

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The Pallisers

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-01-19

This sprawling BBC saga follows an aristocratic family through three generations of power,...

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The Fourth Arm

as uncredited
First aired: 1983-01-07

The twelve-part serial dealt with secret agents parachuted into occupied Europe during the...

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Justice

as uncredited
First aired: 2011-04-04

Justice is a British legal drama starring Robert Pugh as Judge Patrick Coburn. The first episode...

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