[12] He also played Lord President Borusa in the 1983 20th anniversary episode of Doctor Who, The Five Doctors. True cedar trees have no varieties native to the U.S., but people plant them for ornamental purposes. The trials & tribulations of a British Aristocratic Family as they pass through the 1930s. It involved the story of the upper class Bourne family before the turn of the Second World War The main setting is Larkfield Manor, the family home, in the grounds of which is the cedar tree.. These tall, full trees … He fretted about a publicity photograph of him in the 1965 Hammer chiller Dracula: Prince of Darkness showing him in his prominent role as Christopher Lee’s loyal servant Klove, knife in hand. [8], 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). From 1955, he appeared on TV in BBC children’s programmes, in roles such as Nicodemus in Jesus of Nazareth (1956), then acted in peak-time dramas. He retired, in 1990, to Stow-on-the-Wold, where he was an avid gardener and continued his hobby of stamp-collecting. He was educated at Felsted School[7] and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, from which he graduated in 1951. Please review our, You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. “I am staggered how accurate they are in technical matters,” said a Shell executive. This article is about the British television serial. grow in U.S. Department of Agriculture hardiness zones 5 through 9, depending on the species. Back at base, Willy and other company executives won plaudits from the real-life oil industry for their authenticity and attention to detail with boardroom politics and pension schemes.
He was an actor, known for Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966), The Treasure Seekers (1961) and Middlemarch (1968). “The realism of Philip Latham’s performance was as moving, frightening and brilliant as anything TV has shown us,” wrote one critic. On radio, Latham played the Reverend Theodore Venables in a 1980 eight-part adaptation of Dorothy L Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey novel The Nine Tailors. Latham also played Oliver Backhouse, in charge of male staff, in the soapy drama set in a West End department store, Harpers West One, for its second series (1962-63) and in 1968 was the Reverend Mr Casaubon in Michael Voysey’s seven-part BBC adaptation of Middlemarch. ... For me, one of the great unanswered questions of human history, is why did Philip Latham leave before the 3rd series? A must see! He made his West End debut as the Dook in the Alec Coppell black comedy The Gazebo (Savoy Theatre, 1960). The Cedar Tree was a television serial that ran from 1976 to 1979 on ITV in the United Kingdom.. Latham – known on screen for depicting benign characters with a sense of moral values – felt uncomfortable playing baddies.
As the dry, aristocratic Plantagenet Palliser, aspiring to high office, the actor was paired with Susan Hampshire’s flighty Lady Glencora, who struggles to leave behind her handsome admirer, Burgo Fitzgerald (played by Barry Justice), in a drama known at the BBC as “the 26 Trollopes”.
Later, he was seen as Colonel Hugh Gwillim in the Second World War secret agent drama The Fourth Arm (1983). The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. Latham’s character becomes Prime Minister, assisted by Glencora’s skills as a society host, and both succeed to the titles of the Duke and Duchess of Omnium only for Lady Glencora to die prematurely. Philip Latham, born January 17 1929, died June 20 2020. Charles Philip Latham (17 January 1929 – 20 June 2020) was a British television actor. Top critical review. We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. Two other noted actors involved were Philip Latham as Cdr.
His breakthrough was as an alcoholic in the 1957 drama-documentary Rock Bottom.
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A complete box set of all three series has since been released. [11] His other film roles included appearances in Ring of Spies (1964), Spy Story (1976) and Force 10 from Navarone (1978). On graduating from Rada in 1951, Latham went into repertory theatre in Farnham, Surrey. In The Cedar Tree (1976-78), created by the Upstairs Downstairs scriptwriter Alfred Shaughnessy, Latham starred as Arthur Bourne, at the head of …
Bourne, and Cyril Luckam, as Charles Ashley, the benevolent grandfather. [3] On television he played the joint-lead role of Plantagenet Palliser (opposite Susan Hampshire) in the 26-part BBC series The Pallisers.
The Cedar Tree was made by Associated Television Productions (ATV) and recorded at their studios at Elstree.
Sadly loses the sense of overall elegance and quality evident in previous episodes..mainly due to the replacement of Philip Latham by Jack Watling , who doesn't have the same inherent charm or sense of dignity that Latham brought to the role.
Latham himself occasionally travelled to foreign parts, such as when he was dispatched to Africa to negotiate drilling rights and to Fiji to lure back Thornton following the troubleshooter’s resignation.
[3], One of his horror film roles was as Dracula's sinister servant Klove in Hammer's 1966 film Dracula, Prince of Darkness,[10] and he had previously worked for Hammer in The Devil-Ship Pirates and The Secret of Blood Island (both 1964).
The Cedar Tree was made by Associated Television Productions (ATV) and recorded at their studios at Elstree.
Created by Alfred Shaughnessy. The programme began as Mogul in 1965 but, on its return the following year, was titled The Troubleshooters.