Michael Gilbert

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This actor appeared in the following radio shows

Series	Episode title	Date
suspense	murder by jury	1954-02-22

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Born in Billinghay, Lincolnshire, England 7/12/1912; died 2/8/2006 at his home in Luddesdown, Kent, England. Married to Roberta Marsden (1947-2006 his death). Graduated from the University of London in 1937 where he studied law. Served with the Royal Horse Artillery in North Africa and Europe during WWII, and after being captured in 1943, was imprisoned in an Italian military prison for the duration of the war. He turned that experiance into his 1952 novel, "Death in Captivity."

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In 1947, he joined the London law firm of Trower Still Keeling, becoming a partner in 1952, and taking on clients like the Conservative Party, the sultan of Bahrain and writer Raymond Chandler, whose will he drew up. He retired from the firm in 1983, but continued to use his personal experiances with the law as source material for his novels. He also continued writing, turning out book reviews, and anthologies, as well novels, short stories and plays.

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Writer for BBC-TV series including episodes of Fair Game (1958); The Men From Room 13 (1959); Zero One (1963); The Third Man (1965).

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Gilbert was made a C.B.E. (Commander, order of the British Empire) in 1980. He was a founding member of the Crime Writers Association, which awarded him its Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement in 1994, and he was named a grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America in 1988.

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Michael Gilbert

This actor appeared in the following radio shows

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