Marcus Gilbert
Biography
Marcus Gilbert was a British actor whose screen career began in 1984. Born in Bristol in 1958, he graduated from the Mountview Theatre School in 1981 and was a founder member of the Odyssey Theatre Company, which toured London schools with contemporary plays, then spent seasons with Dundee Repertory Theatre and Manchester's Library Theatre. His films included Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986), A Hazard of Hearts (1987), Rambo III (1988) and Army of Darkness (1992), as well as The Masks of Death, Legacy and Freebird. On television he appeared in Doctor Who's Battlefield in 1989 and an episode of Murder, She Wrote in 1994. He made more than 50 commercials, one winning a British Arrows Pearl & Dean Cinema Award in 1983, and later ran Touch the Sky Productions. In 2000 he played the young Viscount Goring in a national tour of An Ideal Husband. He died in 2026.
67years old at death
- Born Bristol
- Died
- Star sign: LeoThe sign runs July 23 to August 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 4
- Career span
- 6 years1986 to 1992
Every film, newest first
- 1992Army of DarknessIMDb rating 7.4
- 1988Rambo IIIIMDb rating 5.8
- 1987A Hazard of HeartsIMDb rating 6.7
- 1986Biggles: Adventures in TimeIMDb rating 5.6
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Early training
Gilbert trained at the Mountview Theatre School, graduating in 1981, and then helped found the original Odyssey Theatre Company, which toured London schools with productions of contemporary classics.
A change of course
Gilbert made more than 50 commercials. One was a Lee Cooper jeans ad named Mean Jeans, directed by Willi Patterson, and it won a British Arrows Pearl & Dean Cinema Award in 1983.
Behind the camera
Gilbert owned Touch the Sky Productions, a film company. In 2004, while documenting his climb of Mount Kilimanjaro, he went to the Arusha Children's Trust in Tanzania and shot an appeal for the trust.
Marcus Gilbert movies on Netflix
Worked with
Marcus Gilbert shares two films with Neil Dickson, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Neil Dickson's page
Christopher Plummer's page
Sylvester Stallone's page
Peter Cushing's page
Helena Bonham Carter's page
Bill Moseley's page
John HoughDirector, 2 films, 1986 to 1987
All films by John Hough
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