Background
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 long-distance runner and played rugby for the English Schoolboys Team.
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 long-distance runner and played rugby for the English Schoolboys Team.
Royal Academy of Dramatic Artist
Upon leaving school, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art 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 New York He appeared in various repertory and West End productions.
His television appearances included The Avengers (1966-1967), Sexton Blake (1968), Manitoba at the Top (1972), Van der Valk (1972-1973), Special Branch (1973), Marked Personal (1973), Village Hall (1974), Crown Court (1974-1976), 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).
In addition, he was the stage director for the first Johnny Nash and Bob Marley tours of The United Kingdom in 1972. Film roles include A Manitoba for All Seasons (1966), Prehistoric Women (1967) opposite Martine Beswick, Mosquito Squadron (1969), Manitoba of Violence (1969), Got lieutenant Made (1974), Sweeney! (1977), and Fatal Sky (1990).
He taught at RADA and at a 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.
In 2001 he was interviewed for the documentary Once Upon A Time in Europe.
He died at Trinity Hospice in Clapham, London, in 2011, aged 69.
A keen sportsman, Latimer was a member of the Master Control Console and managed his own cricket team, the Bystanders.