Roger Maxwell real name Roger Done Latham (1 January 1900 – 24 November 1971) was an English actor and first-class cricketer.[1][2]
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| Born | Roger Done Latham 1 January 1900 | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 24 November 1971 (aged 71) | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Actor | ||||||||||||||
| Years active | 1927–1971 | ||||||||||||||
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| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1920 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||
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The son of Alexander Mere Latham, he was born at Chelsea on New Year's Day in 1900. He was educated at Wellington College, completing his education there in 1917.[3] With the First World War ongoing, Maxwell attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst from which he graduated into the Middlesex Regiment as a second lieutenant in August 1918.[4] Following the war, he was promoted to lieutenant in September 1921, which was antedated to February 1920.[5] Maxwell played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against the British Army cricket team at Lord's in June 1920.[6] Batting once in the match, he ended the MCC's first innings unbeaten on 16, sharing in a 58 runs stand for the final wicket with Richard Busk.[7]
Progressing into a career in acting, Maxwell's first role was in the 1927 docudrama The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands.[3] On stage he appeared in the West End in Ian Hay's Leave It to Psmith and Off the Record, Terence Rattigan's Who Is Sylvia? and Peter Jones's The Party Spirit.
In 1959, he was a member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival.[8]
Maxwell died on the Isle of Man at Onchan in November 1971.[9]
Filmography edit
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands | ||
| 1938 | Save a Little Sunshine | Hector Stanley | |
| 1949 | Badger's Green | Sir John | |
| 1949 | Stop Press Girl | Director | Uncredited |
| 1950 | Ha'penny Breeze | Mr. Simmonds | |
| 1951 | Mister Drake's Duck | Col. Maitland | |
| 1951 | Night Was Our Friend | Colonel | |
| 1952 | Song of Paris | Weldon | |
| 1952 | Treasure Hunt | Military-Looking Man | Uncredited |
| 1952 | Girdle of Gold | Chairman of the Bench | |
| 1953 | Deadly Nightshade | Col. Smythe | |
| 1953 | The Steel Key | ||
| 1953 | Glad Tidings | Uncredited | |
| 1954 | John Wesley | General Holt | |
| 1955 | No Smoking | Major | |
| 1955 | The Cockleshell Heroes | Passenger on train | Uncredited |
| 1956 | Keep It Clean | General Ponsonby-Goreham | |
| 1956 | Reach for the Sky | Pantiles | Uncredited |
| 1959 | The Captain's Table | Fred | Uncredited |
| 1960 | A Touch of Larceny | Club Member #2 | |
| 1960 | The Angry Silence | Collins | |
| 1963 | The Cracksman | Magistrate | Uncredited |
| 1965 | Doctor Zhivago | Beef-Faced Colonel | |
| 1970 | The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer | Party chairman | |
| 1971 | Dad's Army | General Wilkinson "Peppery Old Gent" | (final film role) |
References edit
- ^ "Roger Maxwell". BFI. Archived from the original on 16 May 2019.
- ^ "Roger Maxwell - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- ^ a b Noble, Peter (1959). British Film and Television Year Book. Vol. 9. Cinema TV Today. p. 183.
- ^ "No. 30893". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 September 1918. p. 10721.
- ^ "No. 32469". The London Gazette (Supplement). 27 September 1921. p. 7622.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Roger Latham". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
- ^ "Marylebone Cricket Club v Army, 1920". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
- ^ "Roger Maxwell". IMDb.
- ^ Wills. Kent & Sussex Courier. 7 July 1972. p. 44
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