Simon Gipps-Kent was a British

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 actor, particularly noted as a prolific child actor in the 1970s.

His television credits include: the 1973 BBC

BBC

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 television adaptation of M.R. James' Lost Hearts; The Tomorrow People

The Tomorrow People

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; Edward the Seventh (playing young Edward), a role he played again in the BBC's The Prince And The Pauper; Great Expectations

Great Expectations

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; To Serve Them All My Days

To Serve Them All My Days

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; V for Victory, an episode of the 1978 TV series Enemy at the Door

Enemy at the Door

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; A Traveller in Time; the 1979 Doctor Who

Doctor Who

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story The Horns of Nimon

The Horns of Nimon

-Outside references:The plot of this serial incorporates aspects of the story of Theseus and the Minotaur - a fact the Doctor comments on at the end of the last episode...

and the Southern Television

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 serials, Midnight is a Place and Noah's Castle.
Gipps-Kent also had a speaking part in Quadrophenia

Quadrophenia (film)

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.

For a time he also played Kenton Archer in the BBC radio serial The Archers

The Archers

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. His last television role was in the pilot episode for the comedy series Blackadder

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in 1982. He died of a morphine overdose in 1987.