Actor who starred as Rupert Campbell-Black in the TV series Riders in the 1990s and in the Rambo and Evil Dead film franchises Actor who starred as Rupert Campbell-Black in the TV series Riders in the 1990s and in the Rambo and Evil Dead film franchises The actor Marcus Gilbert, who has died of throat cancer aged 67, attained sex-symbol status in two television adaptations of Barbara Cartland novels, and then the raunchy drama Riders, based on Jilly Cooper ’s Rutshire Chronicles series of books.