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 Wins Favorite Version of ?A Christmas Carol?

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Alastair Sim Quotes:

Mr. Potter: Just remember, if you're not one up on the other fellow, then he's one up on you.


The Laird: Never shoot Kestrels, George. They're wonderful birds and do a power of good.


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


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He and Naomi had one daughter, Merlith McKendrick.

In 1950 he headed the British Cinema Exhibitors Poll.

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.

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