Kenneth Gilbert

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

Podshock 2010
Hustle 2004 ★ 7.7
Midsomer Murders 1997 ★ 7.5
Cracker 1993 ★ 6.6
Hancock 1991
House of Cards 1990 ★ 8.0
The Lady and the Highwayman 1988 ★ 5.1
Mr. Corbett's Ghost 1987 ★ 6.3
God's Outlaw 1986 ★ 6.6
Dempsey and Makepeace 1985 ★ 6.7
Ivanhoe 1982 ★ 6.4
The Tempest 1980 ★ 7.0
Shoestring 1979 ★ 7.7
Enemy at the Door 1978 ★ 8.2
Scorpion Tales 1978 ★ 7.3
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom 1976 ★ 8.8
The Sweeney 1975 ★ 8.1
Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood 1973 ★ 7.0
The Protectors 1972 ★ 6.1
New Scotland Yard 1972 ★ 6.3
Justice 1971 ★ 7.3
The Caesars 1968 ★ 8.0
Doctor Who 1963 ★ 7.9
Sir Francis Drake 1961 ★ 5.1