Simon Gipps-Kent

Biography

Simon Gipps-Kent was a prolific stage and screen juvenile actor, born into a show-business family in Kensington, London. He rose to fame as a teenager playing British royalty and nobility, with notable roles including Stephen in "A Ghost Story for Christmas Lost Hearts" (1973). With his talent agency listing, he alternated between theatre and television appearances until his untimely death from a morphine overdose in 1987 at the age of 28.