Kenneth Gilbert

Biography

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

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. His television appearances included Doctor Who (as World Ecology Bureau official Richard Dunbar) in The Seeds of Doom (1976), House of Cards, Mister Corbett's Ghost (1987) and Softly, Softly

Known For

Mr. Corbett's Ghost
Mr. Corbett's Ghost
God's Outlaw
God's Outlaw
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom
Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood
Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood
Podshock
Podshock

Filmography

2010 Podshock
as
2004 Hustle
as Benesh
1997 Midsomer Murders
as Hilary Carlton
1993 Cracker
as Father
1991 Hancock
as Man on Plane
1990 House of Cards
as Harold Earle
1988 The Lady and the Highwayman
as Lord Henry
1987 Mr. Corbett's Ghost
as Uncle Harry
1986 God's Outlaw
as Humphrey Monmouth
1985 Dempsey and Makepeace
as Dr. Swann
1982 A Gift of Tongues
as Ned Childs
1982 Ivanhoe
as Marshall
1980 Buccaneer
as Vic Mallinson
1980 The Tempest
as Boatswain
1978 Scorpion Tales
as Peter Ward
1978 Enemy at the Door
as Pierre Masservy
1976 Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom
as Richard Dunbar
1975 The Sweeney
as Supt. Reynolds
1973 Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood
as Friar Tuck
1972 The Protectors
as Detective