Alastair Sim Overview:

Character actor, Alastair Sim, was born Alastair George Bell Sim on Oct 9, 1900 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Sim died at the age of 75 on Aug 19, 1976 in London, England .

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Long-faced, Scottish-born character star, bald from an early age, whose expressions of ghoulish glee, doleful dithering and agonized anguish, coupled with uniquely gurgling diction, were associated with much that was best in British comedies and comedy-thrillers from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s. The cinema let him go too early at 60. An incomparable Scrooge. Died from cancer.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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Alastair Sim Quotes:

Dr. Barney Barnes: I gave nitrous oxide at first, to get him under.
Inspector Cockrill: Oh yes, stuff the dentist gives you, hmmm -- commonly known as "laughing gas."
Dr. Barney Barnes: Used to be -- actually the impurities cause the laughs.
Inspector Cockrill: Oh, just the same as in our music halls.


Sheila Birling: [about the girl who commited suicide by drinking disinfectint] Was she pretty?
Inspector Goole: She wasn't very pretty when I saw her last in the infirmery.


Eve Gill: There's nothing the matter with your reputation!
Commodore Gill: Oh, indeed? I'd rather flattered myself that there was...


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Alastair Sim Facts
He appeared in 61 films and 46 West End productions.

Played the lead in Pinero's "The Magistrate", opposite Patricia Routledge at the 1969 Chichester festival in what is often cited as his best stage performance.

He shares the distinction, along with Seymour Hicks and Basil Rathbone, of portraying "Ebenezer Scrooge" in more than one production of the classic Charles Dickens novel.

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