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Kenneth Gilbert

1931-06-24 – 2015-10-29 (age 84) Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
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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

Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe

1982

as Marshall

The Lady and the Highwayman
The Tempest
The Tempest

1980

as Boatswain

Hancock
Hancock

1991

as Man on Plane

God's Outlaw
God's Outlaw

1986

as Humphrey Monmouth

Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom

1976

as Richard Dunbar

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A Gift of Tongues

1982

as Ned Childs

Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood
Mr. Corbett's Ghost
Mr. Corbett's Ghost

1987

as Uncle Harry

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The Winter Warrior

1976

as Eadwacer

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