Simon Gipps-Kent Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Simon Gipps-Kent (25 October 1958 - 16 September 1987) was a British actor, particularly noted as a prolific child actor in the 1970s. His television credits include: the 1973 BBC television adaptation of M.R. James' Lost Hearts; The Tomorrow People; Edward the Seventh (playing young Edward), a role he played again in the BBC's The Prince And The Pauper; Great Expectations ; To Serve Them All My Days; V for Victory, an episode of the 1978 TV series Enemy at the Door; A Traveller in Time; the 1979 Doctor Who story The Horns of Nimon and the Southern Television serials, Midnight is a Place... MORE

Simon Gipps-Kent (25 October 1958 - 16 September 1987) was a British actor, particularly noted as a prolific child actor in the 1970s. His television credits include: the 1973 BBC television adaptation of M.R. James' Lost Hearts; The Tomorrow People; Edward the Seventh (playing young Edward), a role he played again in the BBC's The Prince And The Pauper; Great Expectations ; To Serve Them All My Days; V for Victory, an episode of the 1978 TV series Enemy at the Door; A Traveller in Time; the 1979 Doctor Who story The Horns of Nimon and the Southern Television serials, Midnight is a Place and Noah's Castle. Gipps-Kent also had a speaking part in Quadrophenia. Gipps Kent played the part of Willie in the 1978 BBC supernatural drama "Tarry Dan, Tarry Dan, Scary old Spooky Man" For a time he also played Kenton Archer in the BBC radio serial The Archers. His last television role was in the pilot episode for the comedy series Blackadder in 1982. He died of a morphine overdose in 1987. LESS