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.

[1] Gilbert served in the Royal Air Force's Naval Rescue Service and trained as an actor at the Corona Academy in Chiswick.

[1] Gilbert trained as a classical actor at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.

[1] 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.