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Roger Maxwell
Born
Roger Done Latham

(1900-01-01)1 January 1900
Chelsea, London, England
Died24 November 1971(1971-11-24) (aged 71)
Onchan, Isle of Man
OccupationActor
Years active1927–1971
Cricket information
BattingUnknown
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1920Marylebone Cricket Club
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 1
Runs scored 16
Batting average –
100s/50s –/–
Top score 16*
Catches/stumpings –/–

Roger Maxwell real name Roger Done Latham (1 January 1900 – 24 November 1971) was an English actor and first-class cricketer.[1][2]

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

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

  1. ^ "Roger Maxwell". BFI. Archived from the original on 16 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Roger Maxwell - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
  3. ^ a b Noble, Peter (1959). British Film and Television Year Book. Vol. 9. Cinema TV Today. p. 183.
  4. ^ "No. 30893". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 September 1918. p. 10721.
  5. ^ "No. 32469". The London Gazette (Supplement). 27 September 1921. p. 7622.
  6. ^ "First-Class Matches played by Roger Latham". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  7. ^ "Marylebone Cricket Club v Army, 1920". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  8. ^ "Roger Maxwell". IMDb.
  9. ^ Wills. Kent & Sussex Courier. 7 July 1972. p. 44
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