Alastair Sim

Actor

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Also Known As

Alistair Sim

Birth Place

United Kingdom

Born

October 09, 1900

Died

August 19, 1976

Biography

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Inimitable Scottish comic performer, a truly gifted character player whose brilliant timing, hangdog expression and large, glowering eyes helped propel him to stardom in middle age. Sim made his screen debut in the mid-1930s at the age of 35 and went on to play assorted eccentrics and bumblers, both sympathetic and villainous, through the mid-70s. Sim was especially memorable as the ente...

Filmography

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The Littlest Horse Thieves (1976)

Royal Flash (1976)

The Ruling Class (1972)

Bishop Bertie Lampton

The Anatomist (1961)

The Millionairess (1961)

Julius Sagamore

School For Scoundrels (1960)

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Christmas Carol, A (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Jacob Marley

Christmas Carol, A (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Are You The Spirit?

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Naomi Sim

Wife

Actor, writer. Born on November 13, 1913; met Sim at age 12 in 1925; married in 1931 when she turned 18; died on August 2, 1999 at age 85.

Bibliography

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"Dance and Skylark: Fifty Years with Alastair Sim"

Naomi Sim (1987)

Biography

Inimitable Scottish comic performer, a truly gifted character player whose brilliant timing, hangdog expression and large, glowering eyes helped propel him to stardom in middle age. Sim made his screen debut in the mid-1930s at the age of 35 and went on to play assorted eccentrics and bumblers, both sympathetic and villainous, through the mid-70s. Sim was especially memorable as the enterprising Inspector Cockrill in "Green for Danger" (1946), the over-taxed headmaster in the prep-school farce, "The Happiest Days of Your Life" (1949), the screen's greatest Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol" (1951), the side-splittingly funny schemer of "The Green Man" (1956) and as a ridiculous clergyman in the outlandish satire, "The Ruling Class" (1972).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Littlest Horse Thieves (1976)

Royal Flash (1976)

The Ruling Class (1972)

Bishop Bertie Lampton

The Anatomist (1961)

The Millionairess (1961)

Julius Sagamore

School For Scoundrels (1960)

The Doctor's Dilemma (1959)

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957)

Miss Amelia Fritton

Escapade (1955)

Wee Geordie (1955)

An Inspector Calls (1954)

The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)

Millicent Fritton/Clarence Fritton

Innocents in Paris (1953)

Sir Norman Barker

A Christmas Carol (1951)

[Ebenezer] Scrooge

Laughter in Paradise (1951)

Deniston Russell

Stage Fright (1950)

Hue and Cry (1947)

Captain Boycott (1947)

Green For Danger (1946)

Mail Train (1941)

Sergeant [Percy] Bingham

Cottage to Let (1941)

Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday (1939)

Sergeant Bingham

Inspector Hornleigh (1939)

Sergeant Bingham

This Man Is News (1939)

This Man in Paris (1939)

Sailing Along (1938)

Climbing High (1938)

Alf's Button Afloat (1938)

Murder on Diamond Row (1937)

Late Extra (1935)

Cast (Special)

Cold Comfort Farm (1971)

Life Events

1935

Screen debut, "Riverside Murder"

Photo Collections

A Christmas Carol (1951) - Movie Poster

A Christmas Carol (1951) - Movie Poster

Green for Danger - Movie Poster

Here is the American One-Sheet Movie Poster from the British film Green for Danger (1946), starring Alastair Sim, Sally Gray, and Trevor Howard. One-sheets measured 27x41 inches, and were the poster style most commonly used in theaters.

Videos

Christmas Carol, A (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Jacob Marley Scrooge (Alastair Sim) arriving home Christmas evening, spooky business beginning, Michael Hordern as his dead partner Jacob Marley, in the celebrated 1951 version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, directed by Brian Desmond-Hurst.

Christmas Carol, A (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Are You The Spirit? Scrooge (Alastair Sim) forewarned, awakes to meet the "Spirit Of The Past" (Michael Dolan), beginning their journey where they meet young Ebenezer (George Cole) and his sister (Carol Marsh), in the 1951 British Lion production of Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

Christmas Carol, A (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Addressing Mr. Scrooge Opening scene, introducing Scrooge (Alastair Sim), arriving at his office where Cratchit (Mervyn Johns) has received two businessmen (Peter Bull, the narrator, and Douglas Muir), in Brian Desmond-Hurst's A Christmas Carol, 1951, from the Dickens novel.

Green For Danger (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Churchill Telling Lies Nurse Freddi Linley (Sally Gray) doing rounds at the provincial English military hospital, comes upon suave surgeon Eden (Leo Genn), expressing concern about her relations with her fiancè, his junior colleague, when buzz-bombs intrude, followed by the high-strung chief O-R nurse Bates (Judy Campbell) and a delirious patient, parroting what sounds like Nazi radio propaganda, in the dark Frank Launder-Sidney Gilliat mystery Green For Danger, 1946.

Green For Danger (1946) -- (Movie Clip) You're In His Way Part of another elaborate set-piece in the Frank Launder-Sidney Gilliat production, the hospital dance, Dr Eden (Leo Genn) counsels distraught nurse Esther (Rosamund John) about his ex-lover, her deceased mother, then nurse Bates (Judy Campbell) seethes toward Dr. Barnes (Trevor Howard) whose fianceè nurse Freddi (Sally Gray) becomes his next partner, in Green For Danger, 1946.

Green For Danger (1946) -- (Movie Clip) A Tatty Little Hospital Hop Interlocking exposition in a complex post-operative scene, surgeon Eden (Leo Genn) speaks with the engaged-but-arguing anesthetist Barnes and nurse Linley (Trevor Howard, Sally Gray), then nurse Woods (Megs Jenkins) and overseeing Sister Bates (Judy Campbell), nurse Esther Sanson (Rosamund John) also involved, early in the acclaimed English wartime murder mystery Green For Danger, 1946.

Green For Danger (1946) -- (Movie Clip) He Was The First To Die Alastair Sim narrates as Inspector Cockrill and Moore Marriott features as postman Higgins, followed by a roll call introducing Leo Genn, Megs Jenkins, Rosamund John, Judy Campbell, Sally Gray and Trevor Howard, then Ronald Adam as the administrator Dr. White, all at an English military hospital, in the Frank Launder-Sidney Gilliat mystery, in the first production completed at London’s Pinewood Studios after the end of WWII, Green For Danger, 1946.

Green For Danger (1946) -- (Movie Clip) There'll Have To Be An Inquest The new administrator (Ronald Adam as Dr. White) confers with his doctors, Trevor Howard as the anesthetist Barnes, Leo Genn as surgeon Eden and Henry Edwards as Purdy about the unexplained death of the postman, during surgery and a German air raid at a military hospital, in the Frank Launder-Sidney Gilliat mystery Green For Danger, 1946.

Belles Of St. Trinian's, The (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Scripture And Needlework First scene for Alastair Sim in both parts of his double role, Vivienne Martin as Bella, daughter of Clarence Fritton, arriving with him at the school which evidently has all the locals terrified, and is run by his shiftless sister Millicent, in The Belles Of St. Trinian’s, 1954, based on popular cartoons and books by Ronald Searle.

Belles Of St. Trinian's, The (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Get It Off Your Conscience! Miss Buckland (Mary Merrall) introduces the prized new pupil (Lorna Henderson as Princess Fatima) to ne’er-do-well girls’ school staffers, Renee Houston, Beryl Reid, Balbina, Hermione Baddeley, Irene Handl and Betty Ann Davies, later joined by their boss Miss Fritton (Alastair Sim in drag), in The Belles Of St. Trinian’s, 1954.

Belles Of St. Trinian's, The (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Send A Few Bottles Up Police officer Ruby (Joyce Grenfell) has gotten hired under-cover as the new games-master, being shown around the school by kooky proprietress Millicent (Alastair Sim in drag, one of his two roles), finding out what goes on in the chem lab, not quite meeting in-house crook Harry (George Cole), in The Belles Of St. Trinian’s, 1954.

School For Scoundrels (1960) -- (Movie Clip) He Who Is Not One Up Joining the opening (from a script by Peter Ustinov and others), Ian Carmichael has arrived at a South Somerset town (actually shot in Hertfordshire, suburban London) where he meets a servant (Anita Sharp-Bolster) and the proprietor of his new school, Alastair Sim as Potter, in School For Scoundrels, 1960.

School For Scoundrels (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Like A Wild Uncivilized Savage Quick and clever exposition, hero Palfrey (Ian Carmichael) leads Potter (Alastair Sim), head of the “Lifemanship” school in which he’s just enrolled, into flashback introducing Janette Scott (as April), then three employees who report to pompous Gloatbridge (Edward Chapman), early in School For Scoundrels, 1960.

Doctor's Dilemma, The - (Original Trailer) A woman tries to convince the medical profession to save her ill husband despite his lack of character in The Doctor's Dilemma (1958), starring Leslie Caron and Dirk Bogarde.

Stage Fright - (Original Trailer) Much Warner Bros.' promotion for star Jane Wyman, as an acting student who goes undercover to prove a singing star killed her husband in Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright, 1950.

Companions

Naomi Sim

Wife

Actor, writer. Born on November 13, 1913; met Sim at age 12 in 1925; married in 1931 when she turned 18; died on August 2, 1999 at age 85.

Bibliography

"Dance and Skylark: Fifty Years with Alastair Sim"

Naomi Sim (1987)

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