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

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