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Alastair Sim
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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.
Notable films
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Stage Fright
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Belles of St Trinian's
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Scrooge
As Ebenezer Scrooge
Green for Danger
As Inspector Cockrill
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
As Miss Amelia Fritton
An Inspector Calls
As Inspector Poole
Cottage to Let
As Charles Dimble
The Green Man
As Hawkins
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The University of British Cinema
From the dreaming spires of Cambridge to the redbrick campuses of the provinces, a journey through the British university film and what it reveals about class,...
8 films
The prestige is the trick you never see coming
A chain of films about magicians, mediums and con artists, tracing the moment cinema learned to lie to us and we learned to love it.
8 films
Anarchy in the UK
From Ealing's sly subversions to Python's surreal dismantling of authority, a journey through the films that taught Britain to laugh at itself.
7 films
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Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
1957 · Miss Amelia Fritton
The Green Man
1956 · Hawkins
The Belles of St Trinian's
1954 · Millicent Fritton / Clarence Fritton
An Inspector Calls
1954 · Inspector Poole
Scrooge
1951 · Ebenezer Scrooge
Stage Fright
1950 · Commodore Gill
Hue and Cry
1947 · Felix H. Wilkinson
Green for Danger
1946 · Inspector Cockrill
Cottage to Let
1941 · Charles Dimble