Alastair George Bell Sim was a Scottish actor. He began his theatrical career at the age of thirty and quickly became established as a popular West End performer, remaining so until his death in 1976.
Sim as the Laird in Geordie, 1955
With John Mills and Yvonne Mitchell in the comedy-thriller Escapade, 1955
As Hawkins, the assassin, in The Green Man, 1956
Memorial stone near Sim's birthplace, Lothian Road, Edinburgh
George Edward Cole was an English actor whose career spanned 75 years. He was best known for playing Arthur Daley in the long-running ITV comedy-drama show Minder and Flash Harry in the early St Trini
Alastair Sim
…described by The Times as portraying the relations between an urbane Roman emperor (Sim) and a Greek inventor with wildly anachronistic scientific ideas (George Cole). In 1959, Sim sued the food company H J Heinz over a television advertisement for its baked beans; the advertisement had a voiceover sounding remarkably…
Cole with Rona Anderson in the 1951 film Scrooge