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Sheila Sim

Actress

Born - 5 June 1922, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Died - 19 January 2016

Round-faced, fair-haired English actress of girlish prettiness who was married to Richard Attenborough for almost 70 years until his death in 2014. After a debut in A Canterbury Tale (1944), she made Great Day (1945), Dancing with Crime (1947), The Guinea Pig (1948), Dear Mr Prohack (1949), Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1950), The Magic Box (1951), West of Zanzibar (1954) and The Night My Number Came Up (1955), her last. The sister of actor Gerald Sim, who also died in 2014, she suffered from senile dementia in her last years.