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).

Cast

The Queen

(Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon)

Asylum

(Ruth)

Operation Crossbow

(Constance Babington Smith)

Victim

(Laura Farr)

Ice Cold in Alex

(Sister Diana Murdoch)

The Big Job

(Myrtle Robbins)

Shirley Valentine

(Headmistress)

Dirty Weekend

(Mrs. Crosby)

Booked Out

(Mrs Nicholls)

Bette and Joan

(Self - Presenter)

Danger Route

(Barbara Canning)

Ferry to Hong Kong

(Liz Ferrers)

It's Your Move

(The Wife)

Run Wild, Run Free

(Mrs. Ransome)

Hostile Witness

(Sheila Larkin)

Expresso Bongo

(Maisie King)

Amazons of Rome

(Clelia)

The Quare Fellow

(Kathleen)

Half the Picture

(Margaret Thatcher)

Conspiracy of Hearts

(Sister Mitya)

The World Ten Times Over

(Billa)

Give Us Tomorrow

(Wendy Hammond)

No Trees in the Street

(Hetty)

The Long Lonely Walk

(Mrs. Didcott)

Flame in the Streets

(Kathie Palmer)

The Moonraker

(Anne Wyndham)

East of Sudan

(Miss Woodville)

Mavis and the Mermaid

(Gioga)

Child of Mine

(Alice)

Run For Your Wife

(Hip Operation Woman)

Woman in a Dressing Gown

(Georgie Harlow)

The Desperados

(Laura)

My Teenage Daughter

(Janet Carr)

The Birthday Present

(Jean Scott)

What a Girl Wants

(Princess Charlotte)

There Goes The Bride

(Ursula Westerby)

Natural Lies

The Laughter of God

A Chorus of Disapproval

(Rebecca Huntley-Pike)

The Tamarind Seed

(Margaret Stephenson)

No Time for Tears

(Nurse Margaret Collier)

Staggered

(Margaret)

Bunny and the Bull

(Hotelier)

The Fiction Makers

(Joyce Darling)

Is Anybody There?

(Lilian)

Absolute Beginners

(Cynthia Eve)

Neville's Island

(Mrs. Campness)

Mr. H Is Late

The Punch and Judy Man

(Delia Pinner)

Doctor Who: Ghost Light

(Mrs Pritchard)

Shining Through

(Linda's Mother)

Food of Love

(Mrs. Harvey-Brown)

Together

The Poseidon Adventure

(Belle Rosen)

The World of Suzie Wong

(Kay O’Neill)

Thatcher: The Final Days

(Margaret Thatcher)

Bachelor of Hearts

(Ann Wainwright)

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

(Mrs. Bartz)

Doctor Who

(Mrs. Pritchard)

The Merv Griffin Show

(Self)

Heartbeat

(Peggy Tatton)

Countdown

Dalziel & Pascoe

(Maisie Barron)

The Saint

(Arlene)

Agatha Christie's Marple

(Lavinia Pinkerton)

Judge John Deed

(Rose Hussein)

The Jury

(Elsie Beamish)

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

(Self)

Pebble Mill

(Self)

Bat Out of Hell

Original Sin

(Esme Carling)

Paul Temple

The Week We Went To War

Peak Practice

(Isabel de Gines)

Above Suspicion

(Mrs. Hedges)

Playhouse Presents

(Alice)

Talking Pictures

(Narrator)

Blue Murder

(Peggy Gaumont)

The Human Jungle

(Margo)

Collision

(Joyce Thompson)

At Home with the Braithwaites

(Marion Riley)

Intimate Contact

(Annie Stanhope)

Holby City

(Margaret Larkin)

Casualty

(Bunny Tyrill)

Casualty

(Mrs. Bullock)

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

(Self)

Wogan

(Self)

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

(Lilian Crown)

Case Histories

(Binky Rain)

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

(Stephen's mother)

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

(Mrs. Thorn)

New Tricks

(Beatrice)

Kavanagh Q.C.

(Claudia)

Born and Bred

(Elizabeth Grimshaw)

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

(Mrs. Whalby)

Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced

(Mrs. Easterbrook)

Danger Man

(Paula Glover)

Strange Report

(Carol Webber)

The Adventurer

(Karen Ballard)

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

(Self)

The Glass Virgin

(Lady Constance)

Armchair Theatre

(Kay McCone)

Television Playhouse

(Hilary)

Television Playhouse

(Deborah Grayson)

Armchair Theatre

(Mary Fleming)

Doctor Zhivago

(Madame Fleury)

Nancy Astor

(Nanaire Langthorne)

The Mike Douglas Show

(Self)

The Saint

(Lady Anne Yearley)

The Saint

(Amos Klein)

Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures

Time for Murder

(Viven Scott-Forbes)

Gentleman Jack

(Mrs Rawson)

Miss Marple

(Mrs. Easterbrook)

The Saint

(Jeannine Roger)

Mulberry

(Springtime)

Elstree: Britain's Hollywood

(Self)