Gilbert Harding

Gilbert Charles Harding (5 June 1907 – 16 November 1960) was a British 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 – for example in Expresso Bongo (1959).

Harding had a sizeable role alongside John Mills in the 1952 film The Gentle Gunman. He played the lead in Behind the Headlines (1953 film). He narrated the introduction to the film Pacific Destiny (1956). He also made a couple of comedy recordings in 1953, with Hermione Gingold, on the Philips label: ' Takes Two to Tango ', and ' Oh, Grandma ' (Philips P.B.104), with Peter Yorke and His Orchestra.