Kenneth Gilbert
Actor
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
The Lady and the Highwayman
as Lord Henry 1988
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom
as Richard Dunbar 1976
Mr. Corbett's Ghost
as Uncle Harry 1987
God's Outlaw
as Humphrey Monmouth 1986
The Tempest
as Boatswain 1980
Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood
as Friar Tuck 1973
Hancock
as Man on Plane 1991
A Gift of Tongues
as Ned Childs 1982