Alastair Sim
Born: October 9, 1900
From: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Alastair Sim

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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.

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Films with Alastair Sim

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Scrooge (1951)
1951 Brian Desmond Hurst

Scrooge (released as A Christmas Carol in the United States) is a 1951 British Christmas fantasy drama film and an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge

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