Alastair Sim.
Naturally gifted in comedy films, Alastair Sim was also a highly regarded actor of the theatre.
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- DirectorGuy HamiltonStarsAlastair SimArthur YoungOlga LindoA wealthy family is visited by a police inspector, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman.
- DirectorRichard BirdStarsWilfrid LawsonBernard LeeArthur WontnerA criminal mastermind robs gold, frames his gang, keeps loot. Freed gang searches for ex-boss for revenge and their share.
- DirectorEugene FordeStarsGordon HarkerAlastair SimMiki HoodInspector Hornleigh and his assistant Sergeant Bingham are called in to investigate a murder that involves the theft of government secrets.
- DirectorFrank LaunderStarsAlastair SimJoyce GrenfellGeorge ColeThe schoolgirls of St. Trinian's are more interested in racing forms than books; as they try to get rich quick, they are abetted by the headmistress' brother.
- DirectorFrank LaunderStarsTerry-ThomasGeorge ColeJoyce GrenfellThe girls of St. Trinian's School go on a bus tour of Italy chaperoned by a diamond-thief disguised as a woman to elude the police.
- DirectorSidney GilliatStarsRichard AttenboroughAlastair SimWylie WatsonPercy 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. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.
- DirectorFrank LaunderStarsAlastair SimMargaret RutherfordJohn TurnbullChaos ensues for staff and students alike after an all-boys and an all-girls school are amalgamated into one.
- DirectorSidney GilliatStarsAlastair SimSally GrayTrevor HowardAfter the nurse who declares that a recent surgical death was a murder also dies, an enigmatic Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate.
- DirectorFrank LaunderStarsBill TraversAlastair SimPaul YoungGeordie is a very small boy who feels that the girl he loves is ignoring him because of his size. He decides to take a correspondence course in body-building. At 21, Geordie becomes one of the tallest and strongest men in Scotland.
- DirectorFrank LaunderStarsAlastair SimElizabeth AllanRoland CulverNewly arrived Army chaplin Captain Paris (Alastair Sim) attempts to book various acts for the entertainment of a troop of soldiers.
- DirectorMonty BanksStarsGeorge FormbyFlorence DesmondGus McNaughtonA fortune in gems is hidden in one of six chairs, and it's up to the prospective heir to find it.
- DirectorRobert HamerHal E. ChesterCyril FrankelStarsIan CarmichaelTerry-ThomasAlastair SimA young man finds a very special school. It teaches him how to take advantage of people. He begins to put the lessons into operation.
- DirectorRobert DayBasil DeardenStarsAlastair SimGeorge ColeTerry-ThomasAn assassin is annoyed by a vacuum cleaner salesman determined to stop him.
- DirectorSidney GilliatStarsPatricia BredinEric BarkerJack HedleyAt 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. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party agents are soon colluding against such a disaster.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsLeslie BanksAlastair SimJeanne De CasalisAllied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsEdmund LoweSebastian ShawAnn ToddAn out-of-favor Scotland Yard inspector (Edmund Lowe) hunts a killer diamond fence--The Squeaker (Sebastian Shaw).
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsGordon HarkerAlastair SimLinden TraversIt comes as no surprise when Inspector Hornleigh and his assistant, Sergeant Bingham, go to enjoy the winds and rains on their annual seaside vacation, when they run into a "busman's holiday." One of their fellow boarders at Balmoral Guest House, Captain Fraser of the Royal Navy, goes out one dismal night with his pet terrier and is found crushed and burned to death in his wrecked roadster at the foot of a cliff. Hornleigh and Bingham, residing at Brighthaven incognito and the last people to see Fraser, are taken into custody by the local police. It was impossible to identify the charred body and the dog is missing. Hornleigh, suspecting murder, identifies himself and goes to work on the case. He proves that the crash was neither suicide nor accident, and that the body is not Fraser, despite an identifying tattoo on the back of his hand.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsGordon HarkerAlastair SimPhyllis CalvertThe plot pits Hornleigh and Bingham against a clever gang of Nazi espionage agents. Most of the action takes place aboard a speeding train, with our heroes never quite certain who can be trusted and who can't. Phyllis Calvert contributes to the intrigue as one Mrs. Wilkinson who is not all she seems to be.
- DirectorRichard LesterStarsMalcolm McDowellAlan BatesFlorinda BolkanNe'er-do-well Captain Harry Flashman (Malcolm McDowell) is coerced by Otto Von Bismarck (Oliver Reed) into impersonating a Prince.
- DirectorGordon ParryStarsPeter IllingGaby BruyèreJames CopelandA weekend trip to Paris affects the lives of a group of British tourists.
- DirectorSidney GilliatStarsJohn MillsStewart GrangerAlastair SimA drama set during World War II. A tale of adultery and desertion.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsSophia LorenPeter SellersAlastair SimA millionairess and a doctor cannot marry until they meet conditions set up by their respective parents.
- DirectorClive DonnerStarsPeter O'TooleJohn StandingAlastair SimIn 1939 when an English hunter takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a rifle, he is captured, tortured and left for dead. He escapes but his captors pursue him to England.
- DirectorAlastair ReidStarsAlastair SimJeremy BrettCarolyn SeymourAn elderly priest recruits a young woman as housekeeper in the presbytery he shares with two young priests, but temptation and jealousy soon sew discord and doubt in some minds.
- DirectorBrian Desmond HurstStarsAlastair SimJack WarnerKathleen HarrisonEbenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly, miserly businessman, has no time for sentimentality and largely views Christmas as a waste of time. However, this Christmas Eve, he will be visited by three spirits who will show him the error of his ways.
- DirectorFrank LaunderStarsStewart GrangerKathleen RyanCecil ParkerIn 1880 Ireland, poor farmers rebel against the abuses of their British landlords.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsMarlene DietrichJane WymanRichard ToddA struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
- DirectorAlbert ParkerStarsBasil SydneyJudy GunnZoe DavisShortly before an important meeting of five investors, one of them, Robert Norman, is shot dead in his study. The police come in to solve the crime, while headstrong journalist Claire Haines attempts to get the scoop on the story to impress her editor.
- DirectorJohn BaxterStarsAlastair SimFred EmneyEdward RigbyA Czech political exile and a washed-up music hall comedian form an unlikely partnership to try and save a town's concert hall from the planners, businessmen, and bureaucrats.
- DirectorDavid MacDonaldStarsAlastair SimBarry K. BarnesDiana ChurchillOn the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs. Comedy thriller, ably executed by a satisfactory cast.
- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraStarsHenry KendallKathleen KellyRichard GofeA man, down on his luck, invents a business partner and build an aura around him that leads to opportunities and complications in equal measure.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsJessie MatthewsMichael RedgraveNoel MadisonWealthy young man Nicky (Sir Michael Redgrave) pretends to be poor to be close to model Diana (Jesse Matthews) though he's nearly engaged to aristocrat Lady Constance (Margaret Vyner).
- DirectorDavid MacDonaldStarsBarry K. BarnesValerie HobsonAlastair SimJohn Brown, one of the thieves in a sensational jewel robbery and subsequent trial, is set free when he turns King's Evidence on the other members. He refuses to give reporter Simon Drake an interview, as Simon thinks he will probably be killed by his associates, but Simon makes note of his address. Simon is fired by his city editor, Macgregor, for failing to cover another assignment and the editor says he would not believe Brown's murder if reported by Simon even if it happened. Simon returns home and is persuaded by his wife Pat to have a drink or two. The tipsy Simon, as a joke, telephones Macgregor and tells him that Brown has just been murdered, and the excited Macgregor hangs up before Simon can explain it is just a joke. But Brown has really been murdered and Inspector Holly learns from Macgregor that Simon had telephoned him with the news at 3:10 A.M., but knows that Brown was not murdered until 4:35 A.M. The Inspector also finds a recently fired revolver in Simon's flat and arrests him. Pat and a garage mechanic manage to provide an alibi for Simon at the time of the murder and he is released. But the next morning, Brown's son is also found murdered in Simon's flat. Then Macgregor is shot, non-fatally, while in Simon's presence. Simon is not only reporting news, he appears to the police to be the one also making it.
- DirectorMarcel VarnelStarsBud FlanaganChesney AllenJimmy NervoAlf discovers that one of the buttons on his uniform is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp. When he cleans it a genie appears.
- DirectorSonnie HaleStarsJessie MatthewsBarry MacKayJack WhitingA young orphan woman and a young man were brought up together. She is a 'genius' dancer and he is a 'genius' stockbroker. They both realise their potential. After, they realise they are in love and decide to return to the sailing life.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsPaul CavanaghMarcelle ChantalGarry MarshDuring World War I, in Flanders, Berry and Morley were in love with the same girl, Yvonne. During a battle in the Widow's Island sector, Morley is wounded and abandoned by Berry. Morley being reported missing, Berry now has a clear path to marry Yvonne. Two decades later, Yvonne incidentally meets a tourist guide in the former combat zone region who looks fiendishly like - Morley.
- DirectorSonnie HaleStarsJessie MatthewsBarry MacKayNat PendletonNewspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsHughie GreenMargaret LockwoodJane CarrHugh Hawkins wants to be a song writer and gets an audition with the BBC. At the audition he meets Margaret, younger sister of famous singer Kay Williams, who wants to be a performer too.
- DirectorAlbert ParkerStarsVirginia CherrillJames MasonAlastair SimA secret agent puts his life on the line to save a town's liquid explosives from crooks.
- DirectorLeslie S. HiscottStarsBud FlanaganChesney AllenMary LawsonA pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught. They spend ten years in prison, and when they're let out they go back to the burial ground, only to find out that it's no longer a bucolic pasture but the site of a large department store. Despite that setback, they're still determined to dig up their stash.
- DirectorAlbert ParkerStarsJames MasonVirginia CherrillAlastair SimA newspaper reporter sets out to track down a cop killer.
- DirectorHenry EdwardsStarsEdward Everett HortonBarry MacKayJudy GunnA timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.
- DirectorAlbert de CourvilleStarsHenry OscarOlga LindoMargaret LockwoodA 19th century doctor with a mentally unstable personality is moved by avarice and fear to the vicious murder of local women.
- DirectorCharles CrichtonStarsAlastair SimFrederick PiperHarry FowlerA 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.
- DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsJohn MillsYvonne MitchellAlastair SimThis movie concerns a pacifist husband who is so involved in his causes he totally neglects his wife and two sons. The wife, ready to leave her husband, finds the schoolmaster knocking on their door informing them their boys are going to be expelled for fighting, which he finds ironic, in as much as the father is a known pacifist. When they get to the school, their sons have disappeared.
- StarsDerek FrancisAlfred BurkeArthur HewlettAn anthology series from the U.K., from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television.
- DirectorDennis VanceStarsAlastair SimGeorge ColeAdrienne CorriA doctor employs two men to dig up graves in order for him to have bodies on which to perform experiments, but the men begin to get their own ideas of where to get bodies.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsLeslie CaronDirk BogardeAlastair SimA single doctor about to be awarded a knighthood for his claim of curing tuberculosis is infatuated by a woman's beauty and charm, promising to save her husband's life, only to change his mind after discovering the man's immoral character.
- StarsBrian RixJoby BlanshardCyril LuckhamBBC Sunday-Night Play is the anthology drama series which replaced Sunday Night Theatre in 1960.
- StarsAlastair SimFay ComptonSarah BadelYoung Flora moves to Cold Comfort Farm after her parents' death, meets eccentric relatives, breaks the farm's curse, helps matriarch Ada Doom overcome childhood trauma, finds love, and enables positive changes for her family.
- StarsAlastair SimRoy DotriceAvice LandoneA court that is frequently presided over by the increasingly amused Mr Justice Swallow and Mr Haddock's long-suffering adversary Sir Joshua Hoot QC.
- StarsAlison SteadmanNigel HawthorneTony CaunterA British television anthology drama series that aired on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984.