Television and Films
Simon Gipps-Kent's first television appearance was at age 13 in Philip Saville's 1971 O Fat White Woman for BBC's Play for Today, in a story by William Trevor of a teacher that takes pleasure in abusing his students. He would appear on the program again in 1974 in After the Solo.
Gipps-Kent headlined in the BBC television adaptation of M. R. James' Lost Hearts first broadcast on Christmas Day, 1973, as part of the A Ghost Story for Christmas series and now part of the British Film Institute collection.
In 1974 Gipps-Kent appeared in The Doomsday Men episodes of the science fiction television series The Tomorrow People and he played young Pip (to Michael York's adult 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 during November of that year. It also played in theatres in Europe.
In 1975 Gipps-Kent, in a film for the then Children's Film Foundation, starred in The Firefighters, a story of three children acting as "auxiliary firefighters" who are accused of arson and must both prove their innocence and find the real arsonist. That production and the entire CFF archive are now curated by the British Film Institute. Also in 1975 he appeared in Edward the Seventh again playing young Prince Edward ("Bertie"), this time for ITV. For a time he also played Kenton Archer in the BBC radio serial The Archers.
Gipps-Kent starred in A Traveller in Time (1978), a BBC series based on the children's book by Alison Uttley, and in V for Victory, an episode of the 1978 TV series Enemy at the Door and played the part of Willie in the 1978 BBC supernatural drama Tarry Dan, Tarry Dan, Scary old Spooky Man. Gipps-Kent had the uncredited speaking part of a posh party boy in Quadrophenia (1979), 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.
Gipps-Kent headlined in two Southern Television serials written by British children's authors, Midnight is a Place (1977), based on the novel by Joan Aiken, and Noah's Castle (1980), written by John Rowe Townsend. He appeared in 5 episodes of To Serve Them All My Days (1980) based on the R. F. Delderfield novel. One of his last television roles was as Rudkin the Messenger in the pilot episode for the Rowan Atkinson comedy series The Black Adder in 1982.
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