Anne’s number one rival since childhood, Gilbert Blythe, continues to keep Anne on her toes, never backing down from her challenges. After giving up his teaching position to Anne at the Avonlea schoolhouse, Gilbert is now in his pursuit of becoming a doctor.

His friendship with Anne sparks a romantic interest and despite his proposal of marriage, she is reluctant rejects him. He later falls deathly ill and Anne must decide if it is him that she truly loves.

Jonathan reprised the role of Gilbert Blythe as a guest star in the series Road to Avonlea. His additional television credits include the television movie The Waiting Game and the series Slings and Arrows and Earth: Final Conflict, among others. His big screen credits include Café Romeo and The Jeweler's Shop, with Burt Lancaster.

On stage, Crombie's numerous performances at the prestigious Stratford Festival Theatre include the roles of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew, Orlando in As You Like It, Bud in Sweet Bird of Youth and Guildenstern in Hamlet.

Recently, Crombie has added two more successes to his stage career with starring roles in; The Oxford Roof Climber’s Rebellion, a play set in Oxford following the Great War and The Drowsy Chaperone, a Toronto grown musical comedy that is a smash on Broadway.

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