Actor
Kenneth Gilbert
June 24, 1931 · Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
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
Notable work
Often works with
Tom Baker
2 titles together
Doctor Who, Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom
Elisabeth Sladen
2 titles together
Doctor Who, Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom
William Russell
2 titles together
Doctor Who, Shoestring
Robert Vaughn
2 titles together
Hustle, The Protectors
John Arnatt
2 titles together
House of Cards, Sir Francis Drake
Michael Hordern
2 titles together
Ivanhoe, The Tempest
Full filmography · 27
Hustle
as Benesh
20047.7
Midsomer Murders
as Hilary Carlton
19977.5
Cracker
as Father
19936.6
House of Cards
as Harold Earle
19908
Dempsey and Makepeace
as Dr. Swann
19856.8Buccaneer
as Vic Mallinson
1980
Shoestring
as Richard Nolan
1979
Scorpion Tales
as Peter Ward
1978
Enemy at the Door
as Pierre Masservy
1978
The Sweeney
as Supt. Reynolds
19758.1
The Protectors
as Detective
1972
New Scotland Yard
as Dr Brinsley and as Police Surgeon
1972