Perhaps best remembered as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Scottish character actor Alastair Sim became a leading star of British cinema after spending five years as a lecturer of elocution at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2018, Charles Dickens’ classic novella “A Christmas Carol” turns 175, but its utility as a springboard for movie and TV ...

According to the Dickens Society of London, there have been more than 3,000 adaptations of Charles Dickens’ works, most of them for the stage, but 156 for the movies and television, not including, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "That's the one I watch every year," the Tony-winning actor tells Gold Derby about Sim's famed black-and-white Carol, which he ...

St Anthony's School for Boys' Richard McMillan shares how an assembly on actor Alastair Sim inspired Hampstead pupils with ...

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 ...

Let’s see. America is pulling out of a recession. The military-industrial complex is humming along. Healthcare is far from being reformed. We might as well pretend it’s 1984. And in that case, let’s ...

Lionel Barrymore. Alastair Sim. Laurence Olivier. Albert Finney. George C. Scott. Bill Murray. Michael Caine. Mr. Magoo. Scrooge McDuck. Of the many to play Ebenezer Scrooge, Jim Carrey now adds his ...

Jim Carrey has revealed that Alastair Sim's portrayal of Ebenezer Scrooge inspired his take on the character in this week's A Christmas Carol. Speaking to journalists at the film's UK press conference ...

There are only two films I have seen so many times I can recite the dialogue by heart: “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and “A Christmas Carol,” the 1951 version. (Since this is a Santa Claus Fund ...