Gareth Hunt

Gareth Hunt was a British television actor who began his television career in 1968 with Frontier and became best known for two roles: Frederick Norton, the footman in Upstairs, Downstairs, and Mike Gambit, the secret agent in The New Avengers. Born in Battersea, London, in 1942, he trained at the Webber Douglas Academy and later worked in repertory across Britain before moving into the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre in the early 1970s. His stage productions included West Side Story, Twelfth Night and Oh, What a Lovely War! He played Gambit from 1976 alongside Joanna Lumley and Patrick Macnee until the series ended in 1977. Other credits included the films Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984) and Funny Money (1983), the sitcom Side by Side from 1992 to 1993, and a 2001 role in EastEnders. He died in 2007.