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name: "Lou Gilbert"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lou-gilbert"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 August 1909"
died: "6 November 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:20:35.219043+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Lou Gilbert

Actor. Born 1 August 1909 in Cleveland, Illinois, USA. Died 6 November 1978.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 August 1909, Cleveland, Illinois, USA
- **Died:** 6 November 1978
- **Also known as:** Louis Gilbert

## Biography

Lou Gilbert (1909–1978) was an American character actor who worked in theatre, film and television. Born in Illinois, he began his career in Chicago repertory theatre before moving to New York in 1945, where he appeared in more than a dozen Broadway productions.

On screen he played Pablo in *Viva Zapata!* (1952), the grandfather in *Juliet of the Spirits* (1965), Goldie in *The Great White Hope* (1970) and Rosenbaum in *Marathon Man* (1976). He also appeared in *Raid on Entebbe* (1976) and episodes of *Kojak*. Gilbert won the Clarence Derwent Award in 1948 for his stage performance in *Hope Is the Thing With Feathers*.

*Sources: imdb.com, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Marathon Man* (1976), Fi1m 74, as Rosenbaum — [page](https://film.one/film/marathon-man.md)

## Also known for

- *Juliet of the Spirits* (1965), Grandfather
- *Viva Zapata!* (1952), Pablo
- *Requiem for a Heavyweight* (1962), Dr. Gilbert
- *Last Embrace* (1979), Rabbi Jacobs
- *Raid on Entebbe* (1976), Chaim Bar-Lev

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