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Alastair Sim

Highest Rated: 100% School for Scoundrels (1960)

Lowest Rated: 20% The Millionairess (1960)

Birthday: Oct 9, 1900

Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Inimitable Scottish comic performer, a truly gifted character player whose brilliant timing, hangdog expression and large, glowering eyes helped propel him to stardom in middle age. Sim made his screen debut in the mid-1930s at the age of 35 and went on to play assorted eccentrics and bumblers, both sympathetic and villainous, through the mid-70s. Sim was especially memorable as the enterprising Inspector Cockrill in "Green for Danger" (1946), the over-taxed headmaster in the prep-school farce, "The Happiest Days of Your Life" (1949), the screen's greatest Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol" (1951), the side-splittingly funny schemer of "The Green Man" (1956) and as a ridiculous clergyman in the outlandish satire, "The Ruling Class" (1972).

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Highest rated movies

100% 71% School for Scoundrels
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92% 68% Stage Fright
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86% 89% A Christmas Carol
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83% 85% The Ruling Class
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73% 84% Green for Danger
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67% 68% The Belles of St. Trinian's
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50% 64% Royal Flash
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20% 39% The Millionairess
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64% Laughter in Paradise
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71% Hue and Cry
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Filmography

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No Score Yet 50% Rogue Male The Earl (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet 75% The Littlest Horse Thieves Lord Harrogate (Character) - 1977
50% 64% Royal Flash Mr. Greig (Character) - 1975
83% 85% The Ruling Class Bishop Lampton (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet 94% Christmas Carol Unknown (Character) - 1972
20% 39% The Millionairess Julius Sagamore (Character) - 1960
100% 71% School for Scoundrels Mr. S. Potter (Character) - 1960
No Score Yet No Score Yet Left, Right and Center Lord Wilcot (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Doctor's Dilemma Cutler Walpole (Character) - 1958
No Score Yet 81% The Green Man Hawkins (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Anatomist Dr. Knox (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet 14% Innocents in Paris Sir Norman Barker (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet 40% Geordie The Laird (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet No Score Yet Escapade Dr. Skillingworth (Character) - 1955
67% 68% The Belles of St. Trinian's Millicent Fritton/Clarence Fritton (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet 80% An Inspector Calls Inspector Poole (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet No Score Yet Folly to Be Wise Capt. William Paris (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet 64% Laughter in Paradise Captain James Deniston Russell (Character) - 1951
86% 89% A Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lady Godiva Rides Again Hawtrey Murington (Character) - 1951
92% 68% Stage Fright Commodore Gill (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet 82% The Happiest Days of Your Life Wetherby Pond (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet 20% Dulcimer Street Mr. Squales (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet Captain Boycott Father McKeogh (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet 71% Hue and Cry Felix H. Wilkinson (Character) - 1946
73% 84% Green for Danger Inspector Cockrill (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet 44% Waterloo Road Dr. Montgomery (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet No Score Yet Let the People Sing Professor Ernst Kronak (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mail Train Sergeant Bingham (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 59% Cottage to Let Charles Dimble (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday Sergeant Bingham (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet Inspector Hornleigh Sergeant Bingham (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet This Man Is News Macgregor (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alf's Button Afloat The Genie of the Button (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet 40% Sailing Along Sylvester (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Climbing High Max (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Terror "Soapy" Marx (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Murder on Diamond Row Joshua Collie (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gangway Detective Taggett (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Man in the Mirror Interpreter (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Troubled Waters Mac MacTavish (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Keep Your Seats, Please! A. S. Drayton (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Riverside Murder Police Sergeant "Mac" McKay (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Fire Has Been Arranged Cutte (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Late Extra MacPherson (Character) - 1935