Jon Laurimore

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Jon Laurimore
Born
Jon St Alban Livermore

1936
Occupation Actor
Years active1959–2009
Spouse(s) Zoe Hicks (1959 - ?), Jill Laurimore (1968 - present)

Jon St Alban Laurimore (born 1936) is a British actor, known for his television appearances. [1]

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His TV credits include The Avengers , The Prisoner , Z-Cars , Dixon of Dock Green , Public Eye , Warship , Sutherland's Law , The Onedin Line , Rock Follies , Space: 1999 , Doctor Who (in the serial The Masque of Mandragora ), I, Claudius , Target , Secret Army , Reilly, Ace of Spies , Minder , Dalziel and Pascoe and Jack the Ripper . [2] [3] He also appeared as police officers in the films A Touch of the Other (1970) and Die Screaming, Marianne (1971). [4] [5]

He now lives with his family in Suffolk, England.

Personal life

Jon married actress Zoe Hicks in 1959 and they later divorced. In 1963 he married Jill Simonson, who later became a television scriptwriter. They had two children, Sophie Laurimore and Dido Laurimore.

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  2. "Jon Laurimore - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie". AllMovie.
  3. "Jon Laurimore". www.aveleyman.com.
  4. "A Touch of the Other (1970)". Archived from the original on 2 June 2022.
  5. "Die Screaming Marianne (1971)". Archived from the original on 8 March 2016.