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.


[last line. Mr S. Potter to the camera]
Mr. S. Potter: I do apologize ladies and gentlemen, events do seem to have taken a most unfortunate turn. This sort of calamity we cannot always guard against, even amongst our best students. You see once, once sincerity rears its ugly head, well lifemanship is powerless...
[an orchestra starts to play]
Mr. S. Potter: stop that music... orchestra!... orchestra... stop that infernal din. Please, no, I... look at me, I must get back to Yeovil.


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.


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Near the end of his life he maintained a correspondence with Ray Bradbury.

Foster father and acting instructor of George Cole.

He appeared in 61 films and 46 West End productions.

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