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Sim, Alastair

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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Date: 19960101
Author:PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND

Sim, Alastair (1900–76), outstanding Scottish actor, who could combine a roguish conspiratorial glee with prim old-maidish fastidiousness. He made his first appearance on the stage in 1930, and in 1932–3 was at the Old Vic , appearing later in Edgar Wallace's The Squeaker (1937). In 1941 he first played Captain Hook in Barrie's Peter Pan , a role he was to repeat many times; but he first made a decided impact on the theatrical scene with his Mr McCrimmon in James Bridie's Mr Bolfry (1943), the first of a series of roles in plays (which he also directed) by the same ...

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