Kenneth Gilbert
Born: 1931-06-24 in Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
Died: 2015-10-29
Known For: Acting
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
Filmography
2010
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
- Ivanhoe as Marshall
- A Gift of Tongues as Ned Childs
1980
- Buccaneer as Vic Mallinson
- The Tempest as Boatswain
1979
- Shoestring as Richard Nolan
1978
- Enemy at the Door as Pierre Masservy
- Scorpion Tales as Peter Ward
1976
- Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom as Richard Dunbar
- The Winter Warrior as Eadwacer
1975
- The Sweeney as Supt. Reynolds
1973
- Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood as Friar Tuck
1972
- The Protectors as Detective
- New Scotland Yard as Dr Brinsley
1971
- Justice as Sgt. Humphrey
1968
- The Caesars as Colonel at Planasia
1963
- Doctor Who as Richard Dunbar
1961
- Sir Francis Drake as Sergeant