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- Simon Gipps-Kent (born Simon Trevor Kent; 25 October 1958 – 16 September 1987) was an English theatre and film actor in the 1970s and 1980s, known for his teenage portrayals of British royalty and nobility. He was born into a show business family in Kensington, London.
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Simon Gipps-Kent (born Simon Trevor Kent; 25 October 1958 – 16 September 1987) [3] was an English theatre and film actor in the 1970s and 1980s, known for his teenage portrayals of British royalty and nobility.
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.
Jan 9, 2024 · Simon Gipps-Kent (born Simon Trevor Kent; 25 October 1958 – 16 September 1987) was a prolific 20th-century English theatre and film actor in the 1970s-80s, noted for his teenage portrayals of British royalty and nobility. He was born into a show business family in Kensington, London.
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Simon Trevor Kent was born in London to Peter Gipps Kent, a variety artist, and Sonia (née Aebersold) Kent, a dancer. At age 12 he decided acting would be his career. As a youth he attended the Ladbroke Grove School in West London where he wrote, produced, directed and acted in his own play as a way of gaining recognition. Brought up as a Catholic,...
Simon Gipps-Kent, as he would later call himself, had early experience on the British stage that, according to his talent agency listings, included alternately playing one of the royal children (either Prince Bertie or Prince Alfie) in I and Albert at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1972–73, and as Max-Ernst von Kellig in A Lesson in Blood and Roses, sta...
His 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 who takes pleasure in abusing his students. He returned to Play for Today in 1974 in After the Solo. He appeared as the bookworm orphan Peter Beresford in the 1972–73 BBC adaptation of Noel Str...
Simon Gipps-Kent died in his flat on Cavendish Road in the London Borough of Brent on 16 September 1987, aged 28. His funeral was held on 28 September at the Golders Green Crematorium. His body was cremated there and his ashes were later scattered on the Crocus Lawn, Section 3H. A coroner's Inquest conclusions (previously called verdicts) held on 1...
Simon Trevor Gipps-Kent death certificate/Registered January 15, 1988.Alistair D. McGown & Mark J. Docherty,The Hill and Beyond: Children's Television Drama – An Encyclopedia, British Film Institute, 2003, p. 97.- 25 October 1958
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Sep 5, 2024 · Simon Gipps-Kent (born Simon Trevor Kent; 25 October 1958 – 16 September 1987) [3] was an English theatre and film actor in the 1970s and 1980s, known for his teenage portrayals of British royalty and nobility.
Simon Gipps-Kent (born Simon Trevor Kent; 25 October 1958 – 16 September 1987) was an English theatre and film actor in the 1970s and 1980s, known for his teenage portrayals of British royalty and nobility. He was born into a show business family in Kensington, London.
Simon Gipps-Kent (born Simon Trevor Kent; 25 October 1958 – 16 September 1987) was a prolific 20th-century English theatre and film actor in the 1970s–80s, noted for his teenage portrayals of British royalty and nobility.
