Sheila Sim
Acting
Biography
Sheila Sim was an English film and theatre actress. She was married to Sir Richard Attenborough.
Born: June 5, 1922
Place of Birth: Liverpool, England
Known For
Great Day
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
The Guinea Pig
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.
A Canterbury Tale
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
The Night My Number Came Up
British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small Dakota propeller plane crashes on a Japanese beach. Hardie dismisses the dream as pure fantasy, but while he is flying to Tokyo the next day, circumstances start changing to align with the pilot's vivid vision, and it looks like the dream disaster may become a reality.
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's captain Hendrik van der Zee, he pushes her to commit the ultimate act of love.
I'm All Right Jack
Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from the bottom, while both the management and the labor union use him as a tool in their fight for power.
The Magic Box
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
Dear Mr. Prohack
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.
Dancing with Crime
When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover a major criminal operation hiding behind the club's friendly facade.
West of Zanzibar
Game warden Bob Payton tracks a ivory smuggling ring through some of the most treacherous passages of the Zanzibar territory.
Filmography
as Visitor (uncredited)
as Mary Campbell
as Mary Payton
as Nursemaid
as Janet Fielding
as Mary Prohack
as Lynne Hartley
as Joy Goodall
as Margaret Ellis
as Alison Smith