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