Gilbert Harding Biography

Gilbert Charles Harding (5 June 1907 – 16 November 1960) was an English journalist and radio and television personality. His many careers included schoolmaster, journalist, policeman, disc-jockey, actor, interviewer and television presenter. He also appeared in several films, sometimes in character parts but usually as himself. Harding had a sizeable role alongside John Mills in the 1952 film The Gentle Gunman and narrated the introduction to the film Pacific Destiny, 1956. He also made a couple of comedy records in the 1950s.