Norman Painting Norman Painting Norman George Painting (23 April 1924 – 29 October 2009) was an English actor, broadcaster and writer. He played Phil Archer in the BBC Radio 4 soap opera "The Archers" from the pilot episodes aired on the BBC Midlands Home Service in summer 1950, after the series went national on the Light Programme on 1 January 1951, until his death in 2009, when he was the longest-serving member of the cast. His last episode, recorded two days before he died, was broadcast on 22 November 2009. The character lived on until Phil was "found dead" in his armchair
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",