Gerald Sim

Gerald Sim
Born	4 June 1925 Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Died	11 December 2014 (aged 89) Northwood, Hillingdon, London, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1947-1993, 2007

Gerald Grant Sim (4 June 1925 – 11 December 2014) was an English actor who is perhaps best known for playing the Rector in To the Manor Born. He was the younger brother of the actress Sheila Sim and brother-in-law of the actor/director Richard Attenborough. In August 2013, on Richard Attenborough's 90th birthday, it was reported that he was living in a care home for entertainers with his sister in the next room and his brother-in-law on the other side. He died on 11 December 2014.^[1]

Career

Sim was born in Liverpool, Lancashire and had nearly 100 film and television appearances, beginning with an uncredited role in the 1947 film Fame Is the Spur.^[2] Film and TV roles include The L-Shaped Room (1962), Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964), King Rat (1965), Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), Ryan's Daughter (1970), Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971), Frenzy (1972), Young Winston (1972), A Bridge Too Far (1977), The New Avengers (1977), Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978), Gandhi (1982), as Dr George Bagster Phillips in Jack the Ripper (1988), Chaplin (1992) and Patriot Games (1992).

Coincidentally playing a vicar, he appeared in one episode of Keeping Up Appearances before Jeremy Gittins took on the role of the vicar on a more permanent basis. By then retired, he appeared in the 2007 25th Anniversary special episode of To the Manor Born.

Filmography

• Fame Is the Spur (1946)
• Josephine and Men (1955)
• The Angry Silence (1960)
• Cone of Silence (1960)
• Whistle Down the Wind (1961)
• Only Two Can Play (1962)
• The Painted Smile (1962)
• The Amorous Prawn (1962)
• The L-Shaped Room (1962)
• I Could Go On Singing (1963)
• The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)
• Heavens Above! (1963)
• The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
• Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
• King Rat (1965)
• The Murder Game (1965)
• The Wrong Box (1966)
• The Whisperers (1967)
• Our Mother's House (1967)
• Nobody Runs Forever (1968)
• Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
• Strange Report (TV) (1969)
• The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)
• Mischief (1969)
• The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)
• The Last Grenade (1970)
• Doctor in Trouble (1970)
• Ryan's Daughter (1970)
• The Raging Moon (1971)
• Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)
• Kadoyng (1972)
• Frenzy (1972)
• Young Winston (1972)
• Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
• No Sex Please, We're British (1973)
• The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella (1976)
• A Bridge Too Far (1977)
• Gandhi (1982)
• Cry Freedom (1987)
• Number One Gun (1990)
• Patriot Games (1992)
• Chaplin (1992)
• Shadowlands (1993)

References

1. Gerald Sim obituary
2. "Fame Is the Spur (1947)". IMDb. Retrieved 2008-12-28.

External links

• Gerald Sim at the Internet Movie Database
• Gerald Sim at AllMovie