ACTOR

Alastair Sim

1900 - 1976

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Alastair George Bell Sim (9 October 1900 – 19 August 1976) was a Scottish actor, who began his theatrical career at the age of thirty. He quickly became established as a popular West End performer, remaining so until his death in 1976. Starting in 1935, he also appeared in more than fifty British films, including an iconic adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novella A Christmas Carol, released in 1951 as Scrooge in Great Britain and as A Christmas Carol in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alastair Sim has received more than 1,643,161 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Alastair Sim is the 8,798th most popular actor (down from 8,041st in 2019), the 5,951st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,434th in 2019) and the 971st most popular British Actor.

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  • 16

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  • 1.28

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  • 3.44

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Alastair Sim ranks 8,798 out of 13,578. Before him are Harley Jane Kozak, Tom Glynn-Carney, Kate Dickie, Johnny Walker, Olivia Brown, and Kiele Sanchez. After him are Kento Yamazaki, Esmond Knight, Amanda Peterson, Santiago Cabrera, Yui Ishikawa, and Kim Sung-kyun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Alastair Sim ranks 335. Before him are Natalie Schafer, Ruth Clifford, Gertrude Mary Cox, Ethelwynn Trewavas, Albert Hackett, and Padmaja Naidu. After him are Frederica Sagor Maas, Rattanbai Jinnah, Alan Bush, Bill Aston, Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, and Helen Morgan. Among people deceased in 1976, Alastair Sim ranks 270. Before him are Alan Baxter, Tarab Abdul Hadi, Sid James, Franciszek Szymczyk, Anissa Jones, and Paul Russo. After him are Bobby Hackett, Lawrence Shields, Barbara Nichols, Paul Douglas, Károly Takács, and Donald Howard Menzel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alastair Sim ranks 5,951 out of 8,785. Before him are Jemma Redgrave (1965), Atticus Ross (1968), Rupert Penry-Jones (1970), Andy Bell (1970), Tom Glynn-Carney (1995), and Kate Dickie (1971). After him are Esmond Knight (1906), David Haye (1980), Saskia Reeves (1961), Roberta Cowell (1918), Dominic Sherwood (1990), and Ben Hardy (1991).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Alastair Sim ranks 971. Before him are Steven Waddington (1968), Georgie Henley (1995), Jemma Redgrave (1965), Rupert Penry-Jones (1970), Tom Glynn-Carney (1995), and Kate Dickie (1971). After him are Esmond Knight (1906), Saskia Reeves (1961), Dominic Sherwood (1990), Ben Hardy (1991), DeObia Oparei (1971), and Douglas Henshall (1965).

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Television and Movie Roles

Scrooge
Ebenezer 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.
Nov 28o 19517.4 / 10
An Inspector Calls
Inspector Poole
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?
Mar 16o 19547.2 / 10
Stage Fright
Commodore Gill
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
Feb 23o 19506.789 / 10