Kenneth was Born in Devon in 1931, The actor began his professional stage career in the late 1950s, with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the beginning of a long and distinguished live theatre career.
Kenneth became a well-known face to millions of television viewers through a range of guest-roles and longer running parts.
In 1976 Kenneth played World Ecology Bureau official Richard Dunbar in the Doctor Who story The Seeds Of Doom with Tom Baker as The Doctor.
His other guest stints for the BBC included police serials Z Cars in 1966, Softly Softly in 1968, political drama House of Cards in 1990 and most recently Hustle in 2011.
He however was a more frequent employee of ITV making appearances, often as characters of importance - doctors, solicitors, detectives…, in shows such as Thames Television’s drama Special Branch, ATV’s spy saga The Zoo Gang of 1974, ATV’s BAFTA-winning period drama Edward VII in 1975, court room tales in Granada Television’s Crown Court in 1976 and LWT’s sitcom On The Buses in 1973.
Kenneth longest running regular role was that of Oliver Banks, well-off businessman and father of brummie Kevin Banks, in the long running ATV soap opera Crossroads.
First appearing in 1981 he was a semi-regular until the mid-1980s.
British Actor Kenneth Gilbert kicks the bucket on Nov. 4, 2015, he was aged 84.
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