Phil Archer fan will." Phil Archer Philip Walter Archer is a fictional character from the British BBC Radio 4 soap opera "The Archers", played by Norman Painting. He made his first appearance on 29 May 1950, the show's pilot episode. The character later became the longest serving male character in the series. His longevity gave him something of the status of a 'patriarch' in Ambridge. Norman Painting joined the cast as Phil Archer, the "handsome" son of Dan (Harry Oakes) and Doris Archer (Gwen Berryman), for the show's pilot episode broadcast on the BBC Midlands Home Service on 29 May 1950, he
Simon Gipps-Kent 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". 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",