
Sylvia Syms
Acting • Born 1934-01-06 – Died 2023-01-27
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).
Filmography
117 credits
The Queen
Movie • 2006
Queen Mother

Asylum
Movie • 1972
Ruth

Operation Crossbow
Movie • 1965
Constance Babington Smith

Victim
Movie • 1961
Laura Farr

Ice Cold in Alex
Movie • 1958
Sister Diana Murdoch

The Big Job
Movie • 1965
Myrtle Robbins

Shirley Valentine
Movie • 1989
Headmistress

Dirty Weekend
Movie • 1993
Mrs. Crosby

Booked Out
Movie • 2012
Mrs Nicholls

Bette and Joan
Movie • 2017
Self - Presenter

Danger Route
Movie • 1967
Barbara Canning

Ferry to Hong Kong
Movie • 1959
Liz Ferrers

It's Your Move
Movie • 1982
The Wife

Run Wild, Run Free
Movie • 1969
Mrs. Ransome

Hostile Witness
Movie • 1968
Sheila Larkin

Expresso Bongo
Movie • 1959
Maisie King

Amazons of Rome
Movie • 1961
Clelia

The Quare Fellow
Movie • 1962
Kathleen

Half the Picture
Movie • 1996
Margaret Thatcher

Conspiracy of Hearts
Movie • 1960
Sister Mitya

The World Ten Times Over
Movie • 1963
Billa

Give Us Tomorrow
Movie • 1978
Wendy Hammond

No Trees in the Street
Movie • 1959
Hetty

The Long Lonely Walk
Movie • 2010
Mrs. Didcott

Flame in the Streets
Movie • 1961
Kathie Palmer

The Moonraker
Movie • 1958
Anne Wyndham

East of Sudan
Movie • 1964
Miss Woodville

Mavis and the Mermaid
Movie • 2000
Gioga

Child of Mine
Movie • 2005
Alice

Run For Your Wife
Movie • 2012
Hip Operation Woman

Woman in a Dressing Gown
Movie • 1957
Georgie Harlow

The Desperados
Movie • 1969
Laura

My Teenage Daughter
Movie • 1956
Janet Carr

The Birthday Present
Movie • 1957
Jean Scott

What a Girl Wants
Movie • 2003
Princess Charlotte

There Goes The Bride
Movie • 1980
Ursula Westerby

The Laughter of God
Movie • 1991
Diana

A Chorus of Disapproval
Movie • 1989
Rebecca Huntley-Pike

The Tamarind Seed
Movie • 1974
Margaret Stephenson

No Time for Tears
Movie • 1957
Nurse Margaret Collier

Staggered
Movie • 1994
Margaret

Bunny and the Bull
Movie • 2009
Hotelier

The Fiction Makers
Movie • 1968
Joyce Darling

Is Anybody There?
Movie • 2009
Lilian

Absolute Beginners
Movie • 1986
Cynthia Eve

Neville's Island
Movie • 1998
Mrs. Campness

Mr. H Is Late
Movie • 1988

The Punch and Judy Man
Movie • 1963
Delia Pinner

Doctor Who: Ghost Light
Movie • 1989
Mrs Pritchard

Shining Through
Movie • 1992
Linda's Mother

Food of Love
Movie • 1997
Mrs. Harvey-Brown

Together
Movie • 2018

The Poseidon Adventure
Movie • 2005
Belle Rosen

The World of Suzie Wong
Movie • 1960
Kay O’Neill

Thatcher: The Final Days
Movie • 1991
Margaret Thatcher

Bachelor of Hearts
Movie • 1958
Ann Wainwright

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Movie • 2003
Mrs. Bartz

Dancing
Movie • 1995

The Making of 'The Queen'
Movie • 2007
Self

Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Mrs. Pritchard

The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self

Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Peggy Tatton

Countdown
TV • 1982

Dalziel & Pascoe
TV • 1996
Maisie Barron

The Saint
TV • 1962
Arlene

Agatha Christie's Marple
TV • 2004
Lavinia Pinkerton

Judge John Deed
TV • 2001
Rose Hussein

The Jury
TV • 2002
Elsie Beamish

The Alan Titchmarsh Show
TV • 2007
Self

Pebble Mill
TV • 1991
Self

Bat Out of Hell
TV • 1966

Original Sin
TV • 1997
Esme Carling

Paul Temple
TV • 1969

The Week We Went To War
TV • 2009

Peak Practice
TV • 1993
Isabel de Gines

Above Suspicion
TV • 2009
Mrs. Hedges

Playhouse Presents
TV • 2012
Alice

Talking Pictures
TV • 2013
Narrator

Blue Murder
TV • 2003
Peggy Gaumont

The Human Jungle
TV • 1963
Margo

Collision
TV • 2009
Joyce Thompson

At Home with the Braithwaites
TV • 2000
Marion Riley

Intimate Contact
TV • 1987
Annie Stanhope

Holby City
TV • 1999
Margaret Larkin

Casualty
TV • 1986
Bunny Tyrill

Casualty
TV • 1986
Mrs. Bullock

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
TV • 1993
Self

Wogan
TV • 1982
Self

Case Histories
TV • 2011
Binky Rain

New Tricks
TV • 2004
Beatrice

Born and Bred
TV • 2002
Elizabeth Grimshaw

Kavanagh Q.C.
TV • 1995
Claudia

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
TV • 1987
Lilian Crown

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
TV • 1987
Stephen's mother

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
TV • 1987
Mrs. Whalby

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
TV • 1987
Mrs. Thorn

Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
TV • 1985
Mrs. Easterbrook

The Adventurer
TV • 1972
Karen Ballard

Strange Report
TV • 1969
Carol Webber

Danger Man
TV • 1960
Paula Glover

Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV • 1957
Self

Armchair Theatre
TV • 1956
Kay McCone

Armchair Theatre
TV • 1956
Mary Fleming

Television Playhouse
TV • 1955
Deborah Grayson

Television Playhouse
TV • 1955
Hilary

Doctor Zhivago
TV • 2002
Madame Fleury

The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self

The Saint
TV • 1962
Lady Anne Yearley

The Saint
TV • 1962
Amos Klein

Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
TV • 1986

Time for Murder
TV • 1985
Viven Scott-Forbes

Gentleman Jack
TV • 2019
Mrs Rawson

The Saint
TV • 1962
Jeannine Roger

Mulberry
TV • 1992
Springtime

Elstree: Britain's Hollywood
TV • 1989
Self

Nancy Astor
TV • 1982
Nanaire Langhorne

The Glass Virgin
TV • 1995
Lady Constance