- Margaret Rutherford, Passport to Pimlico, 1948, Roll up, roll up cor the very the first of the famous Ealing comedies. This ine had a the town councillor trying to make the London borough of Pimlico into… an independent state! Sim passed on being Professor Hatton-Jones who then became another UK film favourite character star. Rutherford later put her imprint on fthe role of Agatha Christie’s crme solving spinster, Miss Marple.
- Joss Ackland, Royal Flash, 1975. Sime most Dick Lester politely turneddown a role in the film with the titular Malcolm McDowell. “I was, still am, enormously flattered,” Sim wrote to director Richard Lester, “that you should want to squeeze a flicker of me into your first Flash.” But it was not “quite a spot” he’d revel. He might, however, appear in a sequel. Lester wouldn’t wait and Sim agreed to a smaller cameo. He died after two more movies.
Birth year: 1900Death year: 1976Other name: Casting Calls: 2