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1. A Christmas Carol (1951)
directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
featuring Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns, Michael Hordern, Hermione Baddeley
Widely considered to be the definitive of the many film versions of Charles Dickens' classic novel is this 1951 British adaptation, starring Alastair ... More
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2. School for Scoundrels (1960)
directed by Robert Hamer
featuring Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim, Janette Scott, Dennis Price
In the British farce School for Scoundrels, Ian Carmichael plays a naïve young loser, Henry Palfrey, who is anxious to get ahead in the world. He ... More
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3. The Green Man (1956)
directed by Robert Day
featuring Alastair Sim, George Cole, Jill Adams, Avril Angers, Raymond Huntley
Alistair Sim plays a mild, innocuous little watchmaker who spends his off-hours as a professional assassin. His present target is windbag cabinet ... More
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4. Waterloo Road (1945)
directed by Sidney Gilliat
featuring John Mills, Stewart Granger, Alastair Sim, Joy Shelton, Beatrice Varley
This 1949 British film told a very plausible story about a triangle between a woman, her soldier husband, and her new lover. Jim Colter (John Mills) ... More
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5. The Littlest Horse Thieves (1976)
directed by Charles Jarrott
featuring Alastair Sim, Peter Barkworth, Maurice Colbourne, Susan Tebbs, Geraldine McEwan
The Littlest Horse Thieves is a Walt Disney Production. Set in early 20th-century England, the film concerns three Yorkshire children who take pity ... More
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6. Green for Danger (1947)
directed by Sidney Gilliat
featuring Alastair Sim, Leo Genn, Trevor Howard, Sally Gray, Rosamund John, Judy Campbell
At a World War II emergency hospital, a postman dues under anesthetic during a relatively minor operation. One of the nurses who was present ... More
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7. The Belles of St. Trinian's (1953)
directed by Frank Launder
featuring Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole, Hermione Baddeley, Betty Ann Davies
Belles of St. Trinian's was the first of several British comedies inspired by the fear-inspiring girl's school created by cartoonist Ronald Searle. ... More
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8. Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1956)
directed by Frank Launder
featuring Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Alastair Sim, Lionel Jeffries, Lisa Gastoni, Sabrina
Writer/artist Roland Searle's diabolical "belles" of St. Trinian's Girls School return in this raucous British comedy. Because the girls cannot ... More
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9. Wee Geordie (1955)
directed by Frank Launder
featuring Alastair Sim, Bill Travers, Norah Gorsen, Molly Urquhart, Francis de Wolff
Also known as Geordie, the British comedy Wee Geordie was immensely popular worldwide. A slight of frame and puny gamekeeper's son named Geordie ... More
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10. The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)
directed by Frank Launder
featuring Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, John Turnbull, Joyce Grenfell, Richard Wattis, Edward Rigby, Guy Middleton
A battle of the sexes begins to rage in an isolated private school in this charming British comedy. Just outside of London during World War II, Axis ... More
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11. Hue and Cry (1947)
directed by Charles Crichton
featuring Alastair Sim, Douglas Barr, Valerie White, Jack Warner, Harry Fowler, Joan Dowling
Alastair Sim is a delight to behold as always in the British Hue and Cry, but the film's true star is approximately 40 years younger and two feet ... More
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12. The Millionairess (1961)
directed by Anthony Asquith
featuring Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Alastair Sim, Vittorio De Sica, Dennis Price
A beautiful and wealthy woman in the market for a husband believes she has found the right man -- only to discover he isn't especially interested, in ... More
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13. An Inspector Calls (1954)
directed by Guy Hamilton
featuring Alastair Sim, Arthur Young, Olga Lindo, Eileen Moore, Bryan Forbes, Jane Wenham
The comfortable complacency of the British Birling family is upset when Inspector Poole (Alastair Sim) comes calling. An impoverished young working ... More
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14. Cottage to Let (1941)
directed by Anthony Asquith
featuring Leslie Banks, Jeanne de Casalis, Carla Lehmann, Alastair Sim, John Mills
Cottage to Let is a taut British wartime spy thriller, laced with moments of genuinely hilarious comedy. The "maguffin" in this instance is a ... More
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15. The Ruling Class (1972)
directed by Peter Medak
featuring Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne
An institutionalized schizophrenic with a Messiah complex inherits the position of an English Earl in this cutting satire of British society, based ... More
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