A Qualified Fool (1900-1976)
' All the public need to know about me is what they see. I stand or fall in my profession by their judgment of my performance and no amount of publicity can dampen a good one or gloss over a bad one.' (THE TIMES, June 1968) Alastair Sim was a very private person, one of the very few members of his profession who had a genuine horror of personal publicity. Janet Brown , George Cole , Christopher Fry , Kerry Gardner , Ian McKellen , Merlith McKendrick , Patricia Routledge , Naomi Sim , Peter O'Toole and William Trevor join in a celebration of one of the greatest and best loved comics Britain has ever produced. ' If he were to categorise himself he would recognise himself as being one of those great eccentrics who straddle time, the banner he was waving was for freedom, for individuality, for greatness of human spirit and a refusal to be constrained or bowed down by greater forces.' Narrated by Ian Holm
Research MARILYN HOWE Editor MALCOLM DANIEL
Producer GEOFFREY BAINES