Acting · Plymouth, Devon, England, UK · Born June 24, 1931
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
MoviePodshock
2010
TVHustle
2004
as Benesh
MovieCandle in the Dark: The Story of William Carey
1998
TVMidsomer Murders
1997
as Hilary Carlton
TVCracker
1993
as Father
MovieHancock
1991
as Man on Plane
TVHouse of Cards
1990
as Harold Earle
MovieThe Lady and the Highwayman
1988
as Lord Henry
MovieMr. Corbett's Ghost
1987
as Uncle Harry
MovieGod's Outlaw
1986
as Humphrey Monmouth
TVDempsey and Makepeace
1985
as Dr. Swann
A Gift of Tongues
1982
as Ned Childs
MovieIvanhoe
1982
as Marshall
Buccaneer
1980
as Vic Mallinson
MovieThe Tempest
1980
as Boatswain
TVShoestring
1979
as Richard Nolan
TVScorpion Tales
1978
as Peter Ward
TVEnemy at the Door
1978
as Pierre Masservy
The Winter Warrior
1976
as Eadwacer
MovieDoctor Who: The Seeds of Doom
1976
as Richard Dunbar
TVThe Sweeney
1975
as Supt. Reynolds
MovieWolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood
1973
as Friar Tuck
TVThe Protectors
1972
as Detective
TVNew Scotland Yard
1972
as Dr Brinsley
TVJustice
1971
as Sgt. Humphrey
TVThe Caesars
1968
as Colonel at Planasia
TVDoctor Who
1963
as Richard Dunbar
TVSir Francis Drake
1961
as Sergeant
