Sylvia Syms
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 · 105
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
Doctor Who
1963 · Mrs. Pritchard
Casualty
1986 · Bunny Tyrill
Holby City
1999 · Margaret Larkin
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · Lavinia Pinkerton
Peak Practice
1993 · Isabel de Gines
Heartbeat
1992 · Peggy Tatton
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
The Saint
1962 · Arlene
Wogan
1982 · Self
Screen Two
1985 · Diana
New Tricks
2004 · Beatrice
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Carlotta Forcelli
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Judy Marriott
Danger Man
1960 · Paula Glover
Playhouse Presents
2012 · Alice
Sunday Night Theatre
1950 · Janet Towne
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987 · Stephen's mother
Gentleman Jack
2019 · Mrs Rawson
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995 · Claudia
Judge John Deed
2001 · Rose Hussein
Blue Murder
2003 · Peggy Gaumont
Above Suspicion
2009 · Mrs Hedges
Paul Temple
1969
Born and Bred
2002 · Elizabeth Grimshaw
Case Histories
2011 · Binky Rain
The Adventurer
1972 · Karen Ballard
Talking Pictures
2013 · Narrator
The Queen
2006 · Queen Mother
The Human Jungle
1963 · Margo
What a Girl Wants
2003 · Princess Charlotte
The Jury
2002 · Elsie Beamish
Half Hour Story
1967 · Flora Halliwell-Holmes
At Home with the Braithwaites
2000 · Marion Riley
Doctor Zhivago
2002 · Madame Fleury
Operation Crossbow
1965 · Constance Babington Sm...
The Poseidon Adventure
2005 · Belle Rosen
Countdown
1982
Collision
2009 · Joyce Thompson
Time for Murder
1985 · Vivien Scott-Forbes
Ghosts
1995 · Mrs Eversley
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
1985 · Mrs. Easterbrook
Strange Report
1969 · Carol Webber
Shining Through
1992 · Linda's Mother
Nancy Astor
1982 · Nanaire Langhorne
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993 · Self
The Glass Virgin
1995 · Lady Constance
Shirley Valentine
1989 · Headmistress
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Kay McCone
Mulberry
1992 · Springtime
Bat Out of Hell
1966 · Diana Stewart
My Teenage Daughter
1956 · Janet Carr
Danger Route
1967 · Barbara Canning
Asylum
1972 · Ruth
The World of Suzie Wong
1960 · Kay O’Neill
Original Sin
1997 · Esme Carling
Absolute Beginners
1986 · Cynthia Eve
Victim
1961 · Laura Farr
The Tamarind Seed
1974 · Margaret Stephenson
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
2003 · Mrs. Bartz
Ice Cold in Alex
1958 · Sister Diana Murdoch
The Week We Went To War
2009
Run Wild, Run Free
1969 · Mrs. Ransome
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989 · Rebecca Huntley-Pike
Is Anybody There?
2009 · Lilian
The Big Job
1965 · Myrtle Robbins
Expresso Bongo
1959 · Maisie King
Intimate Contact
1987 · Annie Stanhope
Food of Love
1997 · Mrs. Harvey-Brown
Child of Mine
2005 · Alice
Mr. H Is Late
1988
The Moonraker
1958 · Anne Wyndham
No Time for Tears
1957 · Nurse Margaret Collier
There Goes The Bride
1980 · Ursula Westerby
The Desperados
1969 · Laura
Run For Your Wife
2012 · Hip Operation Woman
Amazons of Rome
1961 · Clelia
No Trees in the Street
1959 · Hetty
Bunny and the Bull
2009 · Hotelier
Thatcher: The Final Days
1991 · Margaret Thatcher
The Punch and Judy Man
1963 · Delia Pinner
Dirty Weekend
1993 · Mrs. Crosby
Conspiracy of Hearts
1960 · Sister Mitya
Give Us Tomorrow
1978 · Wendy Hammond
The Fiction Makers
1968 · Joyce Darling
It's Your Move
1982 · The Wife
Ferry to Hong Kong
1959 · Liz Ferrers
Bachelor of Hearts
1958 · Ann Wainwright
Woman in a Dressing Gown
1957 · Georgie Harlow
The Birthday Present
1957 · Jean Scott
Hostile Witness
1968 · Sheila Larkin
Flame in the Streets
1961 · Kathie Palmer
Neville's Island
1998 · Mrs. Campness
Elstree: Britain's Hollywood
1989 · Self
Bette and Joan
2017 · Self - Presenter
Staggered
1994 · Margaret
The World Ten Times Over
1963 · Billa
East of Sudan
1964 · Miss Woodville
Booked Out
2012 · Mrs Nicholls
The Quare Fellow
1962 · Kathleen
The Laughter of God
1991 · Diana
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
1989 · Mrs Pritchard
Together
2018
Half the Picture
1996 · Margaret Thatcher
The Long Lonely Walk
2010 · Mrs. Didcott