Gilbert Blythe was the main love interest of Anne Shirley in the “Anne of Green Gables” novel series. Crombie played the role in all three CBC adaptations of the series, first in 1985, then ...

CBC was the network that discovered Crombie, when he was just 17. It was in search of someone to play Gilbert Blythe, the love interest in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s novel “Anne of Green Gables.” ...

Actor Jonathan Crombie, best known for his role as the romantic lead in the Canadian TV series Anne of Green Gables, has died. He was 48. Crombie was adept at playing clean-cut characters of ...

Canadian actor Jonathan Crombie, best known for playing the role of Gilbert Blythe in the “Anne of Green Gables” films, died in New York of a brain hemorrhage on Wednesday. He was 48. “He ...