Kenneth Gilbert

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

• 2010Podshock
• Hustle — Benesh
• 1998Candle in the Dark: The Story of William Carey
• Midsomer Murders — Hilary Carlton
• Cracker — Father
• 1991Hancock — Man on Plane
• House of Cards — Harold Earle
• 1988The Lady and the Highwayman — Lord Henry
• 1987Mister Corbett's Ghost — Uncle Harry
• 1986God's Outlaw — Humphrey Monmouth
• Dempsey and Makepeace — Dr. Swann
• 1982A Gift of Tongues — Ned Childs
• 1982Ivanhoe — Marshall
• Buccaneer — Vic Mallinson
• 1980The Tempest — Boatswain
• Shoestring — Richard Nolan
• Enemy at the Door — Pierre Masservy
• Scorpion Tales — Peter Ward
• 1976Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom — Richard Dunbar
• 1976The Winter Warrior — Eadwacer
• The Sweeney — Supt. Reynolds
• 1973Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood — Friar Tuck
• New Scotland Yard — Dr Brinsley, Police Surgeon
• The Protectors — Detective
• Justice — Sgt. Humphrey
• The Caesars — Colonel at Planasia
• Doctor Who — Richard Dunbar
• Sir Francis Drake — Sergeant