Bertie Gilbert

Bertie Gilbert
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Born	Albert Gilbert (1997-05-01) May 1, 1997 London, England
Died	September 21, 2004(2004-09-21) (aged 7)
Nationality	English
Citizenship	England
Occupation	Actor Filmmaker
Years active	2011–present

Bertie Gilbert is an English actor and filmmaker, a rising talent he has continued to draw attention in the British film industry.

Biography

Gilbert was born in London, England, to Christopher Gilbert, a travel press reporter (died 21 September 2004), and Melinda Libby, a Conservative member of parliament. Gilbert has an older sister, Genevieve. Gilbert studied at the Sylvia Young Theater School.

A child actor, Gilbert is best known for his role as Scorpius Malfoy, son of Draco Malfoy, in the eighth Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2. He also appeared in four episodes of the television series Horrible Histories from 2009 to 2011. Among other roles, he played Fleance on stage in "Macbeth" (2010).

In 2011, Gilbert played the role of The Boy alongside David Tennent in the Radio 4 adaption of Robert Browning's poem, Pied Piper of Hamelin."BBC Radio 4, Robert Browning's poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin".

Following his debut as an actor, Gilbert found an audience on YouTube, appearing regularly on his channel, BertieB, with over 300,000 subscribers. He also collaborated with fellow students Roy Arvatz, Harrison Webb & Dom Herman-Day in comedic vlogs on other channels.

In 2013, he announced his intentions to stop making vlogs and that he was turning his attention to making higher quality short films. He released his first short film Stray Dog, and has since continued his ambition to write and direct.

In 2014 Gilbert was one of a number of YouTube creators turned filmmakers to receive funding and backing from New Form Digital, an online studio joint venture of Discovery Communications, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and others.

In 2015 Gilbert released Blue Sushi a short film that explores what it's like to be Transgender. In order to write the script with friend and filmmaker, Sammy Paul, they embarked on a thorough research mission with real Transgender individuals.

Gilbert has since written and directed further short films in Partnership with New Form Digital, Playground (2017) and Stomping Grounds (2018), which won the First Flights Young Talent Award at the New Renaissance Film Festival."New Renaissance".

In late 2020, Guilbert announced a crowdfunding campaign to fund his latest short film, Please Care which is being produced by Chris Overton's production company Slick Films. The fund was successful and the film has started pre-production."Indie Gogo Campaign".

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Functioned as					Role	Notes
		Actor	Director	Producer	Writer	Editor
2011	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2	Yes	No	No	No	No	Scorpius Malfoy
2013	Stray Dog	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Milo	Short Film(s)
2014	The 56 year old boy	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Patrick
	Tick Where It Hurts	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Guy
	Grey Area	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Charlie
	Killed The Cat	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	John
	Gone Ghastly - Empathy	No	No	No	No	Yes	N/A
	What Have We Done	Yes	No	No	No	No	Himself
2015	Kintsugi	Yes	No	No	No	No	Jesus Christ
	Blue Sushi	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Ben 'Starky' Stark
	Let It Be	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Carl
2016	Friend Like Me	Yes	No	No	No	No	Toby
	The Crookes: Roman Candle	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Bully
2017	Playground	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	N/A
2018	Stomping Grounds	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	N/A
TBA	style="background:#FFFFCC;"	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	N/A

Key

Televison and radio

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	Macbeth	Fleance	1 Episode 'Macbeth' (televised stage play)
2010	Pied Piper of Hamelin	Boy	(Radio Drama)
2009–2011	Horrible Histories (2009 TV series)	Actor	4 Episodes
2012	Dickens in London	Alexander	(Radio Drama)
2016	Oscar's Hotel for Fantastical Creatures	Stan	2 Episodes
2017	Prank Me	Edward	1 Episode

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