Sylvia Syms
Sylvia May Laura Syms, OBE (January 6, 1934 - January 27, 2023) was an English actress of film, television, and stage. One of the major players in films from the mid-1950s until mid-1960s, she was nominated for a BAFTA Award for her role in Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957). She is also known for her roles in films like Ice-Cold in Alex (1958), No Trees in the Street (1959), Victim (1961), and The Tamarind Seed (1974).
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Films (59)
Together
2018
Bette and Joan
2017 · Self - Presenter
Run For Your Wife
2012 · Hip Operation Woman
Booked Out
2012 · Mrs Nicholls
The Long Lonely Walk
2010 · Mrs. Didcott
Bunny and the Bull
2009 · Hotelier
Is Anybody There?
2009 · Lilian
The Making of 'The Queen'
2007 · Self
The Queen
2006 · Queen Mother
The Poseidon Adventure
2005 · Belle Rosen
Child of Mine
2005 · Alice
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
2003 · Mrs. Bartz
What a Girl Wants
2003 · Princess Charlotte
Mavis and the Mermaid
2000 · Gioga
Neville's Island
1998 · Mrs. Campness
Food of Love
1997 · Mrs. Harvey-Brown
Half the Picture
1996 · Margaret Thatcher
Dancing
1995
Staggered
1994 · Margaret
Dirty Weekend
1993 · Mrs. Crosby
Shining Through
1992 · Linda's Mother
The Laughter of God
1991 · Diana
Thatcher: The Final Days
1991 · Margaret Thatcher
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
1989 · Mrs Pritchard
Shirley Valentine
1989 · Headmistress
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989 · Rebecca Huntley-Pike
Mr. H Is Late
1988
Absolute Beginners
1986 · Cynthia Eve
It's Your Move
1982 · The Wife
There Goes The Bride
1980 · Ursula Westerby
Give Us Tomorrow
1978 · Wendy Hammond
The Tamarind Seed
1974 · Margaret Stephenson
Asylum
1972 · Ruth
Run Wild, Run Free
1969 · Mrs. Ransome
The Desperados
1969 · Laura
The Fiction Makers
1968 · Joyce Darling
Hostile Witness
1968 · Sheila Larkin
Danger Route
1967 · Barbara Canning
The Big Job
1965 · Myrtle Robbins
Operation Crossbow
1965 · Constance Babington Smith
East of Sudan
1964 · Miss Woodville
The World Ten Times Over
1963 · Billa
The Punch and Judy Man
1963 · Delia Pinner
The Quare Fellow
1962 · Kathleen
Victim
1961 · Laura Farr
Flame in the Streets
1961 · Kathie Palmer
Amazons of Rome
1961 · Clelia
The World of Suzie Wong
1960 · Kay O’Neill
Conspiracy of Hearts
1960 · Sister Mitya
Expresso Bongo
1959 · Maisie King
Ferry to Hong Kong
1959 · Liz Ferrers
No Trees in the Street
1959 · Hetty
Bachelor of Hearts
1958 · Ann Wainwright
The Moonraker
1958 · Anne Wyndham
Ice Cold in Alex
1958 · Sister Diana Murdoch
The Birthday Present
1957 · Jean Scott
No Time for Tears
1957 · Nurse Margaret Collier
Woman in a Dressing Gown
1957 · Georgie Harlow
My Teenage Daughter
1956 · Janet Carr
Séries (58)
Gentleman Jack
2019 · Mrs Rawson
Talking Pictures
2013 · Narrator
Playhouse Presents
2012 · Alice
Case Histories
2011 · Binky Rain
Collision
2009 · Joyce Thompson
The Week We Went To War
2009
Above Suspicion
2009 · Mrs Hedges
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007 · Self
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · Lavinia Pinkerton
New Tricks
2004 · Beatrice
Blue Murder
2003 · Peggy Gaumont
Doctor Zhivago
2002 · Madame Fleury
Born and Bred
2002 · Elizabeth Grimshaw
The Jury
2002 · Elsie Beamish
Judge John Deed
2001 · Rose Hussein
At Home with the Braithwaites
2000 · Marion Riley
Holby City
1999 · Margaret Larkin
Original Sin
1997 · Esme Carling
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 · Maisie Barron
Ghosts
1995 · Mrs Eversley
The Glass Virgin
1995 · Lady Constance
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995 · Claudia
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993 · Self
Peak Practice
1993 · Isabel de Gines
Heartbeat
1992 · Peggy Tatton
Mulberry
1992 · Springtime
Pebble Mill
1991 · Self
Elstree: Britain's Hollywood
1989 · Self
Intimate Contact
1987 · Annie Stanhope
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987 · Lilian Crown, Stephen's mother, Mrs. Thorn, Mrs. Whalby
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1986
Casualty
1986 · Bunny Tyrill, Mrs. Bullock
Time for Murder
1985 · Vivien Scott-Forbes
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
1985 · Mrs. Easterbrook
Screen Two
1985 · Diana, Margaret Thatcher
Miss Marple
1984 · Mrs. Easterbrook
Countdown
1982
Wogan
1982 · Self
Nancy Astor
1982 · Nanaire Langhorne
Comedy Premiere
1975 · Verity Martin
The Adventurer
1972 · Karen Ballard
Paul Temple
1969
Strange Report
1969 · Carol Webber
The Root of All Evil?
1968 · Elizabeth Glover
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Carlotta Forcelli, Frances
Half Hour Story
1967 · Flora Halliwell-Holmes
Bat Out of Hell
1966 · Diana Stewart
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Judy Marriott
Doctor Who
1963 · Mrs. Pritchard
The Human Jungle
1963 · Margo
The Saint
1962 · Arlene, Lady Anne Yearley, Amos Klein, Jeannine Roger
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
Danger Man
1960 · Paula Glover
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957 · Self
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Kay McCone, Mary Fleming
Television Playhouse
1955 · Hilary, Deborah Grayson
Sunday Night Theatre
1950 · Janet Towne