Marcus Gilbert (actor)
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- 1982–2015
- 2026[1]
Marcus Gilbert | |
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| Born | 29 July 1958 Bristol, England |
| Died | 11 January 2026 (aged 67) |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active |
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| Spouse |
Homaa Khan-Gilbert
(m. 1992; died 2020) |
| Children | 2 |
Marcus Gilbert (29 July 1958 – 11 January 2026) was a British actor.
Beginning in 1984 he appeared in films, including The Masks of Death (1984), Biggles (1986), A Hazard of Hearts (1987), Rambo III (1988), A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1990), Army of Darkness (1992), Legacy (1993) and Freebird (2008), on television (including Doctor Who in Battlefield in 1989), an episode of Murder, She Wrote[2] (in 1994) and in commercials. He has also worked in the theatre, including playing the young Viscount Goring in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband with the Middle Ground Theatre Company on their national tour in 2000.
Gilbert was born in Bristol, England, on 29 July 1958. After graduating from the Mountview Theatre School in 1981,[3] Gilbert became a founder member of the original Odyssey Theatre Company, touring London schools with productions of contemporary classics. This was followed by seasons working in the Dundee Repertory Theatre and the Library Theatre, Manchester.[4][better source needed]
Gilbert made over 50 commercials,[5] including one for Lee Cooper jeans called Mean Jeans, directed by Willi Patterson, which won a British Arrows Pearl & Dean Cinema Award in 1983.[6][7]
He also ran his own film production company, Touch the Sky Productions,[3] and in 2004 while making a documentary about his climbing Mount Kilimanjaro he visited the Arusha Children's Trust in Tanzania and filmed an appeal for the trust.[citation needed]
