Lauren Edwin Gilbert[1][2] (April 8, 1911[1] – February 6, 1998) was an American actor, perhaps best known for his continuing roles on the soap operas Love of Life and The Edge of Night, portraying, respectively, the smitten Tom Craythorne and villainous Harry Lane.
[10] But the best known of these projects—at least since its release to the general public in 2013—is Combat Fatigue Irritability (1945), starring Gene Kelly as Bob Lucas, a traumatized Navy fireman, Jocelyn Brando as his fiancée Sue, and Gilbert as Dr. Bush, the psychiatric officer assigned to treat him.
[5][11] In October 1949, a Kraft Television Theater episode entitled "To Dream Again" afforded Gilbert, by then an actor well versed in the works of Shakespeare,[12] the rare opportunity to portray the Bard himself, seen here "return[ing] to England as a wise and worldly gentleman, sufficiently human to fall in love."
[13] The summer of 1952 featured two TV collaborations with Grace Kelly, first on the Philco Playhouse episode, "Leaves Out of a Book," starring Gilbert and Claudia Morgan, and then, co-starring with Kelly in Kraft Television Theatre's presentation of the George S. Kaufman/Leueen MacGrath play, The Small Hours,[14] detailing the last-minute salvation of a seemingly crumbling marriage.
[18] Beginning on December 29, 1940, in a ceremony conducted by his father, and continuing until her death in 1994, Gilbert was married to actress Jackson Perkins,[19][20] whose onstage collaboration with her future husband extended at least as far back as 1934.