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.
Early life Gilbert served in the Royal Air Force's Naval Rescue Service and trained as an actor at the Corona Academy in Chiswick.
Career
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.Kenneth Gilbert at ATV Today Retrieved 8 November 2015Kenneth Gilbert dies Retrieved 8 November 2015
Filmography Year Title Role Notes1961 Touch of Death Mobile policeman 1963 Tomorrow at Ten Hospital Nurse 1969 Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood Friar Tuck 1971 Twins of Evil Puritan Uncredited1986 God's Outlaw Humphrey Monmouth 1989 The Lady and the Highwayman Lord Henry
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