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