
October 9, 1900 · 125 years old
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…

Ebenezer 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 ...

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.

A member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. Their other, somewhat more respectable family members plot to steal the estate from him; murder and mayhem ensue.

A Scotland Yard Inspector investigates odd hospital deaths during the London Blitz.

A wealthy family is visited by a police inspector, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman.

A young man finds a very special school. It teaches him how to take advantage of people. He begins to put the lessons into operation.

Ne'er-do-well Captain Harry Flashman (Malcolm McDowell) is coerced by Otto Von Bismarck (Oliver Reed) into impersonating a Prince.

Chaos ensues for staff and students alike after an all-boys and an all-girls school are amalgamated into one.

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.

The 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.

Allied 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.

A weekend trip to Paris affects the lives of a group of British tourists.

Three young chldren set about rescuing unwanted pit ponies that are due to be sent to a slaughter house.

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. But...