Frank Latimore

Franklin Latimore September 28 1925 November 29 1998 was an American actor best known for his character Dr Ed Coleridge on the television soap opera Ryans Hope Latimores came from a welltodo family and was able to trace his lineage back to the Revolutionary War He ran away from home at an early age and shortly thereafter got the lead part in a Broadway play His acting career had begun in the 1930s when he and longtime pal Lloyd Bridges began doing summer stock theater at a playhouse in Weston Vermont Latimore then soon went out to Hollywood where he signed a contract with 20th CenturyFox and proceeded to appear in such hits as In the Meantime Darling The Dolly Sisters Three Little Girls in Blue and Shock Latimore also played in two soap operas Ryans Hope and Guiding Light As well he did some work for PBS most notably appearing in a film about the Civil War He married Rukmini Sukarno an opera singer who was a daughter of President Sukarno of Indonesia Their son Chris Kline is a journalist On November 29 1998 he died in his sleep at the age of 72 His remains were cremated and buried beneath a venerable old apple tree on ancestral property in Vermont Description above from the Wikipedia article Frank Latimore licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia