{{Short description|British actor (1862–1925)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Lewis Gilbert''' (born '''Adolphe Louis Dardart'''; 1862 &ndash; 15 March 1925) was a French-born British actor and director of the silent era.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba40426b0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180307075811/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba40426b0|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 March 2018|title=Lewis Gilbert|website=BFI}}</ref>

Gilbert was born in 1862 in France.{{Citation needed|date=January 2019}} He debuted on a music hall stage with his parents, who had a song-and-dance act.<ref name="a">{{cite news |last1=Courtis |first1=Brian |title=A lifetime of make believe on both sides of the camera |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27852913/lewis_gilbert/ |accessdate=31 January 2019 |work=The Age |date=19 October 1985 |location=Australia, Victoria, Melbourne |page=7|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> His final film as an actor was ''The Divorce of Lady X'' (1938).<ref name=a/>

He was married to Lina Naseby. He died in 1925 in Camberwell, London, England.

==Selected filmography== * ''She Stoops to Conquer'' (1914) * ''The Manxman'' (1917) * ''The March Hare'' (1919) * ''The Mystery Road'' (1921) * ''Gwyneth of the Welsh Hills'' (1921) * ''The Oath'' (1921) * ''Dick Turpin's Ride to York'' (1922) * ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (1922) * ''The Truants'' (1922) * ''The House of Peril'' (1922) * ''A Debt of Honour'' (1922) * ''The Missioner'' (1922) * ''The Wandering Jew'' (1923) * ''Bonnie Prince Charlie'' (1923) * ''Lamp in the Desert'' (1923) * ''Chappy - That's All'' (1924) * ''The Love Story of Aliette Brunton'' (1924) * ''Money Isn't Everything'' (1925) * ''Confessions'' (1925)

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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0318149}}

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