
Sylvia Syms
Born January 6, 1934 · 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).
Notable Appearances
Movies

What a Girl Wants

The Queen

Shining Through

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

Absolute Beginners

The Poseidon Adventure

The World of Suzie Wong

Asylum

Operation Crossbow

Shirley Valentine

The Tamarind Seed

Run For Your Wife

Ice Cold in Alex

Mr. H Is Late

A Chorus of Disapproval

The Desperados

It's Your Move

Ferry to Hong Kong

The Moonraker

Is Anybody There?

Victim

Dirty Weekend

Run Wild, Run Free

The Fiction Makers

There Goes The Bride

Bunny and the Bull

Amazons of Rome

No Trees in the Street

The Punch and Judy Man

Flame in the Streets

Doctor Who: Ghost Light

Child of Mine

Danger Route

The Big Job

Food of Love

Expresso Bongo

The World Ten Times Over

Hostile Witness

Woman in a Dressing Gown

East of Sudan

Neville's Island

No Time for Tears

Give Us Tomorrow

Thatcher: The Final Days

The Laughter of God

Staggered

Bachelor of Hearts

Bette and Joan
TV Shows

The Merv Griffin Show

Wogan

Peak Practice

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Agatha Christie's Marple

Heartbeat

Screen Two

The Saint

New Tricks

ITV Playhouse

Dalziel and Pascoe

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Danger Man

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

Sunday Night Theatre

Playhouse Presents

Gentleman Jack

Born and Bred

Judge John Deed

Blue Murder

Kavanagh Q.C.

Above Suspicion

The Human Jungle

Countdown

The Adventurer

Talking Pictures

Case Histories

Paul Temple

At Home with the Braithwaites

The Jury

Strange Report

Miss Marple

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

Half Hour Story

Doctor Zhivago

Time for Murder

Mulberry

Collision

Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced

Ghosts

Armchair Theatre

Nancy Astor

Bat Out of Hell

Original Sin

The Week We Went To War

The Glass Virgin

Intimate Contact












