Gerald Sim

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Gerald Sim (born June 4, 1925 in Liverpool , United Kingdom - † December 11, 2014 in Northwood, London-Hillingdon , United Kingdom) was a British actor in stage, film and television.

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Gerald Sim moved early with his family to Croydon in south London and attended the Cranbrook School in Kent. After the son of a bank clerk saw John Gielgud on a radio broadcast on The Great Ship during World War II , he decided to become an actor too. In the mid-1940s, Sim took acting classes at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and shortly thereafter began to take roles in films and plays on repertoire stages, with which he also toured (as far as Durban, South Africa, 1954).

Sim has been used in medium-sized roles in a plethora of cinema productions and television films, playing mostly vicars in a row, but also civil servants of all kinds, police inspectors, doctors, bank clerks, judges, airport workers, managers and even once a funeral director. In the 1960s and 1970s he was seen repeatedly in productions by Bryan Forbes . One of his greatest roles was that of Prof. Robertson in the hammer horror film Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde . That same year, Alfred Hitchcock hired Sim for the role of a defense attorney in his London thriller Frenzy . In 1996 Gerald Sim largely withdrew from film and television acting, but returned in 2007 for his best-known role, that of the rector in the series To the Manor Born , in which he had appeared regularly from 1979 to 1981 TV camera back.

Gerald Sim was the younger brother of actress Sheila Sim , who in turn was married to Lord Richard Attenborough . Attenborough regularly cast Sim in his screen productions.

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SURNAME Sim, Gerald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool , UK
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2014
Place of death London Hillingdon , United Kingdom