Sylvia Syms
Born: 1934-01-06 in Woolwich, London, England, UK
Died: 2023-01-27
Known For: Acting
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
2019
- Gentleman Jack as Mrs Rawson
2018
2017
- Bette and Joan as Self - Presenter
2013
- Talking Pictures as Narrator
2012
- Playhouse Presents as Alice
- Run For Your Wife as Hip Operation Woman
- Booked Out as Mrs Nicholls
2011
- Case Histories as Binky Rain
2010
- The Long Lonely Walk as Mrs. Didcott
2009
- Above Suspicion as Mrs. Hedges
- Bunny and the Bull as Hotelier
- Is Anybody There? as Lilian
- Collision as Joyce Thompson
- The Week We Went To War
2007
- The Alan Titchmarsh Show as Self
- The Making of 'The Queen' as Self
2006
- The Queen as Queen Mother
2005
- The Poseidon Adventure as Belle Rosen
- Child of Mine as Alice
2004
- Agatha Christie's Marple as Lavinia Pinkerton
- New Tricks as Beatrice
2003
- What a Girl Wants as Princess Charlotte
- Blue Murder as Peggy Gaumont
- I'll Sleep When I'm Dead as Mrs. Bartz
2002
- Born and Bred as Elizabeth Grimshaw
- Doctor Zhivago as Madame Fleury
- The Jury as Elsie Beamish
2001
- Judge John Deed as Rose Hussein
2000
- At Home with the Braithwaites as Marion Riley
- 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
- Original Sin as Esme Carling
1996
- Dalziel & Pascoe as Maisie Barron
- Half the Picture as Margaret Thatcher
1995
- Dancing
- Kavanagh Q.C. as Claudia
- The Glass Virgin as Lady Constance
1994
- Staggered as Margaret
1993
- Peak Practice as Isabel de Gines
- Dirty Weekend as Mrs. Crosby
- Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties as Self
1992
- Heartbeat as Peggy Tatton
- Shining Through as Linda's Mother
- Mulberry as Springtime
1991
- Pebble Mill as Self
- Thatcher: The Final Days as Margaret Thatcher
- The Laughter of God as Diana
1989
- Shirley Valentine as Headmistress
- Doctor Who: Ghost Light as Mrs Pritchard
- A Chorus of Disapproval as Rebecca Huntley-Pike
- Elstree: Britain's Hollywood as Self
1988
1987
- The Ruth Rendell Mysteries as Stephen's mother
- Intimate Contact as Annie Stanhope
1986
- Casualty as Bunny Tyrill
- Absolute Beginners as Cynthia Eve
- Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1985
- Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced as Mrs. Easterbrook
- Time for Murder as Viven Scott-Forbes
1982
- Wogan as Self
- It's Your Move as The Wife
- Countdown
- Nancy Astor as Nanaire Langhorne
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
- The Adventurer as Karen Ballard
1969
- The Desperados as Laura
- Paul Temple
- Run Wild, Run Free as Mrs. Ransome
- Strange Report as Carol Webber
1968
- Hostile Witness as Sheila Larkin
- The Fiction Makers as Joyce Darling
1967
- Danger Route as Barbara Canning
1966
1965
- Operation Crossbow as Constance Babington Smith
- The Big Job as Myrtle Robbins
1964
- East of Sudan as Miss Woodville
1963
- Doctor Who as Mrs. Pritchard
- The Human Jungle as Margo
- The Punch and Judy Man as Delia Pinner
- The World Ten Times Over as Billa
1962
- The Saint as Arlene
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- The Quare Fellow as Kathleen
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Victim as Laura Farr
- Amazons of Rome as Clelia
- Flame in the Streets as Kathie Palmer
1960
- Danger Man as Paula Glover
- The World of Suzie Wong as Kay O’Neill
- Conspiracy of Hearts as Sister Mitya
1959
- No Trees in the Street as Hetty
- Ferry to Hong Kong as Liz Ferrers
- Expresso Bongo as Maisie King
1958
- Ice Cold in Alex as Sister Diana Murdoch
- The Moonraker as Anne Wyndham
- Bachelor of Hearts as Ann Wainwright
1957
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- The Birthday Present as Jean Scott
- No Time for Tears as Nurse Margaret Collier
- Woman in a Dressing Gown as Georgie Harlow
1956
- My Teenage Daughter as Janet Carr
- Armchair Theatre as Kay McCone
1955
- Television Playhouse as Deborah Grayson