Remembering Richard ‘Ken’ Gibson

Ken Gibson was born in 1932 in Shanghai where his father carried on an export business. Like the thousands of British living in China in 1941 when Japan entered the Second World War, he and his family were incarcerated in a Japanese internment camp. Liberated at the end of the war in 1945, he was repatriated to England.

In 1946 he entered Malvern in the College’s first term back in its own premises. After National Service in the RAF he emigrated to Canada where he joined in Vancouver another OM from No.9, Nigel Gow. After a film and TV course at Stanford University he worked on several films before joining the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s TV Department where he became a studio director and the producer of highly successful musical programmes. In 2016 he was inducted to British Columbia’s Hall of Fame as an entertainment pioneer.

He died on November 30 2024 aged 92. Among the tributes paid to him was one from a former TV colleague who described him as a wonderful person, very creative and an awesome human being. He is survived by his brother, the Right Hon Sir Peter Gibson (No.1.46–52).