Simon Gipps-Kent
Biography
Born Simon Trevor Kent on 25 October 1958 into a show-business family, Simon Gipps-Kent was a prolific stage and screen juvenile actor before his untimely and unexplained death from a morphine overdose in 1987.
Known For & Full Filmography19 Titles
Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes • as Seth
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
Drama Series - 1973, 16 episodes • as Ivor
Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.
Drama Series - 1971, 16 episodes • as Stephen
A strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas. First broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and revived in 2005 on BBC Four.
Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
Notable as the first British series to feature a female police officer (predating Juliet Bravo by four months), Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes raises her teenage son while navigating a male-dominated police force following the murder of her police commissioner husband.
Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes • as Billy le Prevost
Enemy At The Door is a British television drama series made by London Weekend Television for ITV. The series was shown between 1978 and 1980 and dealt with the German occupation of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, during the Second World War. The programme generated a certain amount of criticism in Guernsey, particularly for being obviously filmed on Jersey despite being ostensibly set on Guernsey. The series also marked the TV debut of Anthony Head as a member of the island resistance. The theme music was by Wilfred Josephs.
Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes • as Boyer
To Serve Them All My Days is a 1980-81 British television drama serial, adapted by Andrew Davies from R. F. Delderfield's 1972 novel of the same name. David Powlett-Jones, a shell-shocked World War I veteran, becomes a teacher at an elite English boarding school, Bamfylde. The drama explores his personal growth, relationships, and evolving views on society over his 20-year career at the school.
Movie - 1979, 2h 15m • as Posh Boy at Party (uncredited)
Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of the London Mod scene.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • as Young Pip
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes • as Barry Mortimer
The father, an ex-military man, sees the 'handwriting on the wall' as to where his country's economy is headed. In an effort to prepare for this, he moves his family of wife, two sons and two daughters out of the city to a secluded old mansion -- a fortress, a castle, as it were. In a confidence he shares only with his youngest son, he acquires stores, goods and foodstuffs, for the tough times he sees coming.
Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes • as Francis Babington
Penelope travels back in time to join the Babington family as they face danger trying to rescue Mary, Queen of Scots, witnessing tragic events unfold.
Movie - 1977, 2h 15m • as Space Child
The world is coming to an end, and the last survivors board a space-ship ready to leave the doomed planet Earth in search of a new world.
Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • as Rudkin
Sir Tony Robinson takes a journey back in time to find out where Blackadder really began, and to uncover the story of the previously-unseen pilot episode.
Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • as Gaz Arnold
"The voice will make its effect. And it will, undoubtedly, be very touching. But, tell me: after his voice has broken, can you make anything of him then?" After the solo, after the chorus, after the applause?
Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes • as Peter Beresford
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as Seth
After the TARDIS collides with a spacecraft delivering human tributes to the evil bull-like Nimon, the Doctor and Romana must stop the fearsome alien's quest to rule the galaxy.
Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • as Marshalsea
The wife of a public school head becomes gradually aware that her husband has been physically abusing his pupils. Written by the master of late-middle-age morality plays, William Trevor.
Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • as Stephen
A young orphan, Stephen, is sent to go and live with his strange, much older cousin at his remote country house. Once there, Stephen experiences terrible dreams in which he sees a young girl and boy who are missing their hearts.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • as Bob
Young auxiliary fire-fighters are suspected of arson.
Movie - 1978, 2h 15m • as Willie
When he finds himself plagued with nightmares about a historic battle fought on the site of the village he lives in, delinquent Cornish teenager Jonah Grattan becomes obsessed with a potential link to a local homeless man.