Alastair Sim
Acting
Biography
Alastair George Bell Sim, CBE (9 October 1900 – 19 August 1976) was a Scottish character actor who appeared in a string of classic British films. He is best remembered in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1951 film Scrooge, and for his portrayal of Miss Fritton, the headmistress in two St. Trinian's films. He was famously described by comedian Ronnie Corbett as a "sad-faced actor, with the voice of a fastidious ghoul", in Corbett's autobiography High Hopes. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alastair Sim, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: October 9, 1900
Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Known For
Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday
During a holiday by the British seaside, Hornleigh and Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.
Scrooge
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
Inspector Hornleigh
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. When Hornleigh examines the case, inside it he finds a bag that was used to carry important government documents. The documents have been taken, and to make things even more confusing, a duplicate of the stolen bag soon turns up.
Alf's Button Afloat
Alf discovers that one of the buttons on his pyjamas is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp and that when he cleans it a genie appears.
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
An Inspector Calls
An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in her death. But who is the mysterious Inspector and what can he want of them?
A Christmas Carol
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
London Belongs to Me
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.
Sailing Along
A barge-owner's adopted daughter falls in love with his son, and gives up her chances of stardom to be with him.
Gangway
Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.
Filmography
as The Earl
as Lord Harrogate
as Mr. Greig
as Bishop Lampton
as Scrooge (voice)
as Amos Starkadder
as Sagamore
as S. Potter
as Lord Wilcot
as Cutler Walpole
as Miss Amelia Fritton
as Hawkins
as Dr. Knox
as The Laird
as Dr. Skillingworth
as Millicent Fritton / Clarence Fritton
as Inspector Poole
as Sir Norman Barker
as Capt. William Paris
as Ebenezer Scrooge
as Hawtrey Murington (Optimum Films) (uncredited)
as Deniston Russell
as Wetherby Pond
as Commodore Gill
as Mr. Squales
as Father McKeogh
as Felix H. Wilkinson
as Inspector Cockrill
as Dr. Montgomery
as Professor Ernst Kronak
as Charles Dimble
as Sergeant Bingham
as Samuel Blight
as Sergeant Bingham
as Theodore F. Wilcox
as Macgregor
as Sergeant Bingham
as Max
as MacGregor
as The Genie of the Button
as 'Soapy' Marx
as Sylvester
as Joshua Collie
as Detective Taggett
as Colonel Wexton
as Interpreter
as A. S. Drayton
as MacPherson
as Mr. Nebulae
as Cutte
as Police Sergeant 'Mac' McKay