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:

Felix H. Wilkinson: Oh, how I loathe adventurous-minded boys.


Inspector Cockrill: In view of my failure - correction, comparative failure - I feel that I have no alternative but to offer you, sir, my resignation, in the sincere hope that you will not accept it. Full stop.


Eve Gill: There's nothing the matter with your reputation!
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Alastair Sim Facts
When he was made Rector of Edinburgh University, he beat Harold Macmillan (the future Prime Minister) by 2078 votes to 802.

Foster father and acting instructor of George Cole.

He appeared in 61 films and 46 West End productions.

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