Sylvia Syms
January 6, 1934 (90 years old) in Woolwich, London, England, UK
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
Credits
- 2019 · Gentleman Jack as Mrs Rawson
- 2018 · Together as
- 2017 · Bette and Joan as Self - Presenter
- 2013 · Talking Pictures as Narrator
- 2012 · Run For Your Wife as Hip Operation Woman
- 2012 · Playhouse Presents as Alice
- 2012 · Booked Out as Mrs Nicholls
- 2011 · Case Histories as Binky Rain
- 2010 · The Long Lonely Walk as Mrs. Didcott
- 2009 · Bunny and the Bull as Hotelier
- 2009 · Collision as Joyce Thompson
- 2009 · The Week We Went To War as
- 2009 · Is Anybody There? as Lilian
- 2009 · Above Suspicion as Mrs. Hedges
- 2007 · The Alan Titchmarsh Show as Self
- 2006 · The Queen as Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
- 2005 · The Poseidon Adventure as Belle Rosen
- 2005 · Child of Mine as Alice
- 2004 · Agatha Christie's Marple as Lavinia Pinkerton
- 2004 · New Tricks as Beatrice
- 2003 · Blue Murder as Peggy Gaumont
- 2003 · I'll Sleep When I'm Dead as Mrs. Bartz
- 2003 · What a Girl Wants as Princess Charlotte
- 2002 · Doctor Zhivago as Madame Fleury
- 2002 · Born and Bred as Elizabeth Grimshaw
- 2002 · The Jury as Elsie Beamish
- 2001 · Judge John Deed as Rose Hussein
- 2000 · At Home with the Braithwaites as Marion Riley
- 2000 · Mavis and the Mermaid as Gioga
- 1999 · Holby City as Margaret Larkin
- 1998 · Neville's Island as Mrs. Campness
- 1997 · Food of Love as Mrs. Harvey-Brown
- 1997 · Original Sin as Esme Carling
- 1996 · Dalziel & Pascoe as Maisie Barron
- 1996 · Half The Picture as Margaret Thatcher
- 1995 · The Glass Virgin as Lady Constance
- 1995 · Kavanagh Q.C. as Claudia
- 1994 · Staggered as Margaret
- 1993 · Dirty Weekend as Mrs. Crosby
- 1993 · Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties as Self
- 1993 · Peak Practice as Isabel de Gines
- 1992 · Natural Lies as
- 1992 · Heartbeat as Peggy Tatton
- 1992 · Mulberry as Springtime
- 1992 · Shining Through as Linda's Mother
- 1991 · The Laughter of God as
- 1991 · Pebble Mill as Self
- 1991 · Thatcher: The Final Days as Margaret Thatcher
- 1989 · Doctor Who: Ghost Light as Mrs Pritchard
- 1989 · Shirley Valentine as Headmistress
- 1989 · A Chorus of Disapproval as Rebecca Huntley-Pike
- 1989 · Elstree: Britain's Hollywood as Self
- 1988 · Mr. H Is Late as
- 1987 · Intimate Contact as Annie Stanhope
- 1987 · The Ruth Rendell Mysteries as Stephen's mother
- 1987 · The Ruth Rendell Mysteries as Mrs. Whalby
- 1987 · The Ruth Rendell Mysteries as Mrs. Thorn
- 1987 · The Ruth Rendell Mysteries as Lilian Crown
- 1986 · Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures as
- 1986 · Casualty as Bunny Tyrill
- 1986 · Casualty as Mrs. Bullock
- 1986 · Absolute Beginners as Cynthia Eve
- 1985 · Time for Murder as Viven Scott-Forbes
- 1985 · Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced as Mrs. Easterbrook
- 1984 · Miss Marple as Mrs. Easterbrook
- 1982 · Countdown as
- 1982 · It's Your Move as The Wife
- 1982 · Wogan as Self
- 1982 · Nancy Astor as Nanaire Langthorne
- 1980 · There Goes The Bride as Ursula Westerby
- 1978 · Give Us Tomorrow as Wendy Hammond
- 1974 · The Tamarind Seed as Margaret Stephenson
- 1972 · Asylum as Ruth
- 1972 · The Adventurer as Karen Ballard
- 1969 · Paul Temple as
- 1969 · Strange Report as Carol Webber
- 1969 · Run Wild, Run Free as Mrs. Ransome
- 1969 · The Desperados as Laura
- 1968 · The Fiction Makers as Joyce Darling
- 1968 · Hostile Witness as Sheila Larkin
- 1967 · Danger Route as Barbara Canning
- 1966 · Bat Out of Hell as
- 1965 · Operation Crossbow as Constance Babington Smith
- 1965 · The Big Job as Myrtle Robbins
- 1964 · East of Sudan as Miss Woodville
- 1963 · Doctor Who as Mrs. Pritchard
- 1963 · The World Ten Times Over as Billa
- 1963 · The Punch and Judy Man as Delia Pinner
- 1963 · The Human Jungle as Margo
- 1962 · The Saint as Arlene
- 1962 · The Saint as Lady Anne Yearley
- 1962 · The Saint as Amos Klein
- 1962 · The Saint as Jeannine Roger
- 1962 · The Quare Fellow as Kathleen
- 1962 · The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- 1961 · Victim as Laura Farr
- 1961 · Flame in the Streets as Kathie Palmer
- 1961 · Amazons of Rome as Clelia
- 1960 · The World of Suzie Wong as Kay O’Neill
- 1960 · Danger Man as Paula Glover
- 1960 · Conspiracy of Hearts as Sister Mitya
- 1959 · Expresso Bongo as Maisie King
- 1959 · Ferry to Hong Kong as Liz Ferrers
- 1959 · No Trees in the Street as Hetty
- 1958 · Bachelor of Hearts as Ann Wainwright
- 1958 · The Moonraker as Anne Wyndham
- 1958 · Ice Cold in Alex as Sister Diana Murdoch
- 1957 · The Birthday Present as Jean Scott
- 1957 · No Time for Tears as Nurse Margaret Collier
- 1957 · Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- 1957 · Woman in a Dressing Gown as Georgie Harlow
- 1956 · Armchair Theatre as Kay McCone
- 1956 · Armchair Theatre as Mary Fleming
- 1956 · My Teenage Daughter as Janet Carr
- 1955 · Television Playhouse as Deborah Grayson
- 1955 · Television Playhouse as Hilary