1. Simon Gipps-Kent was born into a show business family in Kensington, London.
14 Facts About Simon Gipps-Kent
1. 2.
Simon Gipps-Kent continued to act on stage, film and television until the year before his death in 1987.
3.
Simon Gipps-Kent appeared in the production Fantastic Fairground at the Young Vic in 1974, and a Young Vic tour of Macbeth, playing Fleance, in Mexico and Spain in 1975.
4.
Simon Gipps-Kent played "Emmanuel" to Herbert Lom's Napoleon Bonaparte in William Douglas-Home's Betzi at the Haymarket Theatre and on a provincial tour in 1975.
5.
Simon Gipps-Kent later returned to London theatre work in the 1981 run of Romulus Linney's Childe Byron at the Young Vic with David Essex as Lord Byron.
6.
Simon Gipps-Kent returned to Play for Today in 1974 in After the Solo.
7.
In 1974 Simon Gipps-Kent appeared in "The Doomsday Men" episodes of the children's science fiction television series The Tomorrow People, and played young Pip in a made-for-TV retelling of the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations for the Bell System Family Theatre, airing in the United States on 22 November 1974.
8.
Simon Gipps-Kent starred in A Traveller in Time, a BBC series based on the children's book by Alison Uttley about the Babington Plot, and in "V for Victory", an episode of the TV series Enemy at the Door.
9.
Simon Gipps-Kent had the uncredited speaking part of a posh party boy in Quadrophenia, based loosely on the 1973 rock opera of the same name by The Who, and appeared in the Doctor Who story The Horns of Nimon.
10.
Simon Gipps-Kent headlined in two Southern Television serials based on books written by British children's authors; Midnight is a Place, by Joan Aiken, and Noah's Castle, by John Rowe Townsend.
11.
Simon Gipps-Kent was "Rudkin the Messenger" in the pilot episode for the Rowan Atkinson comedy series The Black Adder in 1982.
12.
That same year Simon Gipps-Kent guest-starred in a series 4 episode of the popular British children's programme Metal Mickey.
13.
Simon Gipps-Kent died in his flat on Cavendish Road in the London Borough of Brent on 16 September 1987, aged 28.
14.
Simon Gipps-Kent's body was cremated there and his ashes were later scattered on the Crocus Lawn, Section 3H.