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Birthdate: October 9, 1900
Death date: August 19, 1976
Alastair Sim
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
1.9469
23
1940s
2.1545
9
1950s
2.4696
14
1960s
1.6626
3
1970s
0.9793
3
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.2651
2.2651
Alastair Sim Movie Rankings
1
3.1413Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge learns the error of his ways through the intervention of the ghost of his former partner and of three spirits in this faithful adaptation of the Dickens classic. ...more about Scrooge
DVD from $9.99
(4 sellers)
2
2.7842Jonathan Cooper is wanted by the police who suspect him of killing his lover's husband. His friend Eve Gill offers to hide him and Jonathan explains to her that his lover, actress Charlotte Inwood is the real murderer. ...more about Stage Fright
DVD from $8.63
(13 sellers)
3
2.6499To further the aims of the St Trinian's Marriage Bureau run by Flash Harry, the school contrives to win a competition with a European "Goodwill" trip as prize, to the horror of the Ministry of Education. ...more about Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
- Not Available on DVD
4
2.6315
In a rural English hospital during WW2, a postman dies on the operating table and the nurse states she knows the murderer is dead too. ...more about Green for Danger
DVD from $24.99
(12 sellers)
5
2.4551
The arrival of Sultan's daughter Princess Fatima at England's famous and prestigious 'School for Young Ladies' precipitates even more chaos than usual. ...more about Belles of St. Trinian's
- Not Available on DVD
6
2.2219
Based on the Stephen Potter "One Upmanship" and "Lifemanship" books, Henry Palfrey tries hard to impress but always loses out to the rotter Delauney. Then he discovers the Lifeman college run by "Professor" Potter and discovers the secrets of success. ...more about School for Scoundrels or How to Win Without Actually Cheating!
- Not Available on DVD
7
2.2177
Work has been going with a bang for freelance assassin Hawkins but a job in England just after the war is a different matter. ...more about Green Man
- Not Available on DVD
9
2.1917
A mysterious criminal mastermind plots a spectacular gold robbery, then after the robbery is completed he makes sure his gang is caught by the police, keeps the gold and disappears. ...more about Terror
DVD from $4.99
(4 sellers)
10
2.1656
When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients. ...more about Millionairess
- Not Available on DVD
11
2.1355
Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength. ...more about Geordie
- Not Available on DVD
12
2.0760
Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, Percy becomes mixed up with gangsters and a murder. ...more about London Belongs to Me
- Not Available on DVD
13
2.0236
A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other somewhat-more respectable members of their family plot to steal the estate from him. ...more about Ruling Class
DVD from $25.57
(10 sellers)
15
1.9894
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. ...more about Happiest Days of Your Life
- Not Available on DVD
16
1.9894
Based on a famous stage play and set in the year 1912, an upper crust English family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. ...more about Inspector Calls
- Not Available on DVD
17
1.9634
A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies. ...more about Hue and Cry
- Not Available on DVD
19
1.9011
Famed practical joker Henry Russell leaves 50,000 pounds to each of his four surviving relatives. But his will has one last joke - they each have to undertake a task completely out of character within a month. ...more about Laughter in Paradise
- Not Available on DVD
21
1.7442
Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana. Complications, slapstick and mountaineering are the result. ...more about Climbing High
- Not Available on DVD
22
1.7351
A wartime cottage on a Scottish estate becomes a focus of attention when not only the new tenant but a London evacuee and a downed fighter pilot all move in. ...more about Cottage to Let
- Not Available on DVD
23
1.7168
Alf discovers that one of the buttons on his pyjamas is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp. When he cleans it a genie appears. ...more about Alf's Button Afloat
- Not Available on DVD
24
1.7154
It concerns a pacifist husband (John Mills) who is so involved in his "causes" he totally neglects his wife and two sons. ...more about Escapade
- Not Available on DVD
25
1.6529
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. ...more about Inspector Hornleigh
- Not Available on DVD
27
1.6150
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. ...more about Left Right and Centre
- Not Available on DVD
28
1.5890
It comes as no surprise when Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker) and his assistant, Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim), go to enjoy the winds and rains on their annual seaside vacation, when they run into a "busman's holiday. ...more about Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday
- Not Available on DVD
29
1.5785
Mrs. Dubedat loves and idolizes her artist husband, Louis, but he is dying of tuberculosis. She goes to a doctor and convinces him to save her husband. ...more about Doctor's Dilemma
- Not Available on DVD
30
1.3752
When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three children plan to steal them to keep them safe. ...more about Escape from the Dark
- Not Available on DVD
31
In his first starring role 'Alastair Sim' (qv) is a clerk in an oil company, promoted ostensibly to take the blame when it looks like the bosses dodgy dealings will be found out by the authorities. Instead, he takes over and makes a success of everything. ...more about Big Noise
- Not Available on DVD
34
A newly-arrived army padre is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. ...more about Folly to Be Wise
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best British Actor
- Not Available on DVD
36
A selection of passengers catch the plane from London for an early 1950's weekend in Paris. ...more about Innocents in Paris
- Not Available on DVD
47
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. ...more about Squeaker
- Not Available on DVD
50
David Kier, one of the thieves in a sensational jewel robbery and subsequent trial, is set free when the turns King's Evidence on the other members. Kier refuses to give reporter Simon Drake (Barry K. ...more about This Man Is News
- Not Available on DVD
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