Michael James Latimer (6 September 1941 – 25 June 2011) was a British television stage and film actor who later in his career turned to writing, directing and producing.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.