Alastair George Bell Sim
Sign | Libra |
Born | Oct 9, 1900 Edinburgh, Scotland |
Died | Aug 19, 1976 London, England |
Age | Died at 75 |
Alastair Sim | |
Job | Actor |
Years active | 1930-1976 |
Top Roles | Julius Sagamore, Commodore Gill, Charles Dimble, Felix H. Wilkinson, Max |
Top Genres | Comedy, Drama, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller/Suspense |
Top Topics | World War II, Period Piece, Romance (Comic) |
Top Collaborators | George Cole, Arthur Howard, Richard Wattis, Irene Handl |
Shares birthday with | Irving Cummings, Edward Andrews, Lila Kedrova see more.. |
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 .
MINI BIO:
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.
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Alastair Sim Quotes:
Dr. White:
I do hope everything can be arranged discreetly.
Inspector Cockrill: Umm, shouldn't think so for a moment.
Dr. White: Why not? Press? Do they have to be seen?
Inspector Cockrill: Can't keep 'em out.
Dr. White: Oh, dear.
Inspector Cockrill: I don't mind; they always give me a good write-up.
Wetherby Pond: [responding in exasperation to Miss Whitchurch informing him that her girls will arrive imminently, as St Swithin's is a boarding school that specializes in outposts] Madam, I don't care where they come from or even if the sun never sets upon them.
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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Inspector Cockrill: Umm, shouldn't think so for a moment.
Dr. White: Why not? Press? Do they have to be seen?
Inspector Cockrill: Can't keep 'em out.
Dr. White: Oh, dear.
Inspector Cockrill: I don't mind; they always give me a good write-up.
Wetherby Pond: [responding in exasperation to Miss Whitchurch informing him that her girls will arrive imminently, as St Swithin's is a boarding school that specializes in outposts] Madam, I don't care where they come from or even if the sun never sets upon them.
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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