Kenneth Gilbert (actor) explained

Kenneth Gilbert
Birth Date:1931 6, df=y
Birth Place:Plymouth, Devon, England
Occupation:Actor

Kenneth Gilbert (24 June 1931  - 29 October 2015) was an English actor who appeared in many television and stage productions over a 50-year period. He often played authority figures such as doctors, colonels, detectives and police surgeons, but became best known as businessman Oliver Banks in the soap opera Crossroads.[1]

Early life

Gilbert served in the Royal Air Force's Naval Rescue Service and trained as an actor at the Corona Academy in Chiswick.[1]

Career

Gilbert trained as a classical actor at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. He was subsequently a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and appeared at The Old Vic.[1] His television appearances included Doctor Who (as World Ecology Bureau official Richard Dunbar) in The Seeds of Doom (1976), House of Cards and Softly, Softly.[2] [3]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1961Touch of Death Mobile policeman
1963Tomorrow at Ten Hospital Nurse
1969 Friar Tuck
1971Twins of Evil Puritan Uncredited
1986God's Outlaw Humphrey Monmouth
1989The Lady and the Highwayman Lord Henry

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kenneth Gilbert: Actor who played Lear and King John but was best known as businessman Oliver Banks in Crossroads . The Independent . Anthony . Hayward . 28 January 2016 . 1 May 2021.
  2. http://www.atvtoday.co.uk/74095-itv/ Kenneth Gilbert at ATV Today
  3. http://tobyhadoke.com/doctor-who/kenneth-gilbert-1931-2015-douglas-camfield-regular-dies/ Kenneth Gilbert dies