An accomplished actor who had appeared in such television shows as ITV Play Of The Week, he also wrote, directed and produced for that programme. It was "Harry" Latham who appointed H.V. Kershaw to be the programme's first story editor in the autumn of 1960 as described in the latter's 1981 autobiography The Street Where I Live: Kershaw went on to say... As Kershaw relates… He was married to actress Barbara Lott who twice appeared in Coronation Street.