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Simon Gipps-Kent (Simon Trevor Kent) was born on 25 October, 1958 in London, England, is an English actor (1958–1987). Discover Simon Gipps-Kent's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 28 years old?
Popular As |
Simon Trevor Kent |
Occupation |
Stage, film, television actor |
Age |
28 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Scorpio |
Born |
25 October 1958 |
Birthday |
25 October |
Birthplace |
London, England |
Date of death |
16 September, 1987 |
Died Place |
London, England |
Nationality |
United Kingdom
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Simon Gipps-Kent Height, Weight & Measurements
At 28 years old, Simon Gipps-Kent height is 5 ft .
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5 ft |
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Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Simon Gipps-Kent Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Simon Gipps-Kent worth at the age of 28 years old? Simon Gipps-Kent’s income source is mostly from being a successful film. He is from United Kingdom. We have estimated Simon Gipps-Kent's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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Source of Income |
film |
Simon Gipps-Kent Social Network
Timeline
Simon Gipps-Kent (born Simon Trevor Kent; 25 October 1958 – 16 September 1987).
20th-century English theatre and film actor in the 1970s–80s, known for his teenage portrayals of British royalty and nobility.
He was born into a show business family in Kensington, London.
Brought up as a Catholic, he attended the London Oratory School in Brompton from September 1970 to June 1974, moving to Cardinal Manning Roman Catholic Boys' School, also in London.
His television debut was on the BBC in 1971 followed with a London West End theatre debut in 1972.
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.
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, starring with Ben Kingsley at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1973.
At age 15 he headlined as the preteen orphan Stephen in the BBC television adaptation of M. R. James's Lost Hearts, first broadcast on Christmas Day 1973, as part of the A Ghost Story for Christmas series and now preserved in the British Film Institute (BFI) collection.
He 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.
He returned to Play for Today in 1974 in After the Solo.
In 1974 Gipps-Kent appeared in "The Doomsday Men" episodes of the children's science fiction television series The Tomorrow People, and 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 on 22 November 1974.
In 1974, in a film for the then Children's Film Foundation, he starred in The Firefighters as a "junior firefighter" accused of arson who must, with the aid of his younger brother and sister, prove his innocence and find the real arsonists before his court appearance.
That production and the entire CFF archive are now curated by the BFI.
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.
Also in 1975, he appeared in Edward the Seventh, again portraying young Prince Edward ("Bertie"), this time for ITV.
For a time he also played Kenton Archer in the BBC radio serial The Archers.
In 1976–77 he appeared in Where the Rainbow Ends at the Gardner Theatre, Brighton.
Gipps-Kent headlined in two Southern Television serials based on books written by British children's authors; Midnight is a Place (1977), by Joan Aiken, and Noah's Castle (1980), by John Rowe Townsend.
Gipps-Kent starred in A Traveller in Time (1978), 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.
Also in 1978, he was featured in episodes of The Devil's Crown as Arthur I, Duke of Brittany, and played the part of "Willie" in Peter McDougall's supernatural drama Tarry-Dan Tarry-Dan Scarey Old Spooky Man, both for the BBC.
In a 1979 newspaper interview titled Simon's Problem is Time, Gipps-Kent expressed his wish to move on to adult roles, including more Shakespeare, but in spite of his accumulated credentials to date, he had been denied those opportunities.
Due to his "boyish good looks and modest figure", he found himself playing younger characters than his real age, mostly on British television, for the majority of his career.
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 (season 17) story The Horns of Nimon.
As "Chad Boyer", he reunited with Devil's Crown actor John Duttine in his BBC series To Serve Them All My Days (1980), based on the R. F. Delderfield novel.
Also in 1980, his appearance in Jill Gascoine's ITV series The Gentle Touch paired him with soon-to-be pop star Limahl.
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.
Gipps-Kent was "Rudkin the Messenger" in the pilot episode for the Rowan Atkinson comedy series The Black Adder in 1982.
That same year Gipps-Kent guest-starred in a series 4 episode of the popular British children's programme Metal Mickey.
He was a series regular on Eureka in the 80s, playing numerous historic and fictional characters, such as J.P. Knight, with other series regulars like Sylvester McCoy.
For five months in 1983 he appeared in the London Shakespeare Group's productions of Betrayal and Twelfth Night, which also played a short season at the Donmar Warehouse and toured extensively for the British Council in China, Japan and throughout the Far East, Middle East and Africa.
Gipps-Kent appeared at Wyndham's Theatre and on a provincial tour in Sue Townsend's The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ from 1984 to 1986 as the character "Barry Kent".
He continued to act on stage, film and television until the year before his death in 1987.
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.
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 14 January 1988 ruled his death as misadventure caused by morphine poisoning, the death certificate being registered the following day.