Roger Maxwell real name Roger Done Latham (1 January 1900 – 24 November 1971) was an English actor and first-class cricketer.
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. 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. Following the war, he was promoted to lieutenant in September 1921, which was antedated to February 1920. Maxwell played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against the British Army cricket team at Lord's in June 1920. 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.
Progressing into a career in acting, Maxwell's first role was in the 1927 docudrama The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands. 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.
Maxwell died on the Isle of Man at Onchan in November 1971.Wills. Kent & Sussex Courier. 7 July 1972. p. 44
Filmography Year Title Role Notes1927 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 Uncredited1950 Ha'penny Breeze Mr. Simmonds 1951 Mr Drake's Duck Col. Maitland 1951 Night Was Our Friend Colonel 1952 Song of Paris Weldon 1952 Treasure Hunt Military-Looking Man Uncredited1952 Girdle of Gold Chairman of the Bench 1953 Deadly Nightshade Col. Smythe 1953 The Steel Key 1953 Glad Tidings Uncredited1954 John Wesley General Holt 1954 Colonel March of Scotland Yard The Major1955 No Smoking Major 1955 The Cockleshell Heroes Passenger on train Uncredited1956 Keep It Clean General Ponsonby-Goreham 1956 Reach for the Sky Pantiles Uncredited1959 The Captain's Table Fred Uncredited1960 A Touch of Larceny Club Member #2 1960 The Angry Silence Collins 1963 The Cracksman Magistrate Uncredited1965 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)
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