Sylvia Syms
- Acting
- January 6, 1934 · Woolwich, London, England, UK
- January 27, 2023
Biography
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).
Known for
Filmography
- Gentleman Jack · Mrs Rawson
- Together
- Bette and Joan · Self
- Talking Pictures · Narrator
- Run For Your Wife · Hip Operation Woman
- Playhouse Presents · Alice
- Booked Out · Mrs Nicholls
- Case Histories · Binky Rain
- The Long Lonely Walk · Mrs. Didcott
- Bunny and the Bull · Hotelier
- Collision · Joyce Thompson
- The Week We Went To War
- Is Anybody There? · Lilian
- Above Suspicion · Mrs Hedges
- The Alan Titchmarsh Show · Self
- The Making of 'The Queen' · Self
- The Queen · Queen Mother
- The Poseidon Adventure · Belle Rosen
- Child of Mine · Alice
- Agatha Christie's Marple · Lavinia Pinkerton
- New Tricks · Beatrice
- Blue Murder · Peggy Gaumont
- I'll Sleep When I'm Dead · Mrs. Bartz
- What a Girl Wants · Princess Charlotte
- Doctor Zhivago · Madame Fleury
- Born and Bred · Elizabeth Grimshaw
- The Jury · Elsie Beamish
- Judge John Deed · Rose Hussein
- At Home with the Braithwaites · Marion Riley
- Mavis and the Mermaid · Gioga
- Holby City · Margaret Larkin
- Neville's Island · Mrs. Campness
- Food of Love · Mrs. Harvey-Brown
- Original Sin · Esme Carling
- Dalziel and Pascoe · Maisie Barron
- Half the Picture · Margaret Thatcher
- Ghosts · Mrs Eversley
- The Glass Virgin · Lady Constance
- Kavanagh Q.C. · Claudia
- Dancing
- Staggered · Margaret
- Dirty Weekend · Mrs. Crosby
- Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties · Self
- Peak Practice · Isabel de Gines
- Heartbeat · Peggy Tatton
- Mulberry · Springtime
- Shining Through · Linda's Mother
- The Laughter of God · Diana
- Pebble Mill · Self
- Thatcher: The Final Days · Margaret Thatcher
- Doctor Who: Ghost Light · Mrs Pritchard
- Shirley Valentine · Headmistress
- A Chorus of Disapproval · Rebecca Huntley-Pike
- Elstree: Britain's Hollywood · Self
- Mr. H Is Late
- Intimate Contact · Annie Stanhope
- The Ruth Rendell Mysteries · Lilian Crown, Stephen's mother
- Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
- Casualty · Bunny Tyrill, Mrs. Bullock
- Absolute Beginners · Cynthia Eve
- Time for Murder · Vivien Scott-Forbes
- Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced · Mrs. Easterbrook
- Screen Two · Diana, Margaret Thatcher
- Miss Marple · Mrs. Easterbrook
- Countdown
- It's Your Move · The Wife
- Wogan · Self
- Nancy Astor · Nanaire Langhorne
- There Goes The Bride · Ursula Westerby
- Give Us Tomorrow · Wendy Hammond
- Comedy Premiere · Verity Martin
- The Tamarind Seed · Margaret Stephenson
- Asylum · Ruth
- The Adventurer · Karen Ballard
- Paul Temple
- Strange Report · Carol Webber
- Run Wild, Run Free · Mrs. Ransome
- The Desperados · Laura
- The Fiction Makers · Joyce Darling
- Hostile Witness · Sheila Larkin