Sylvia Syms
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).
Born: January 6, 1934
Place of Birth: Woolwich, London, England, UK
Known For
Born and Bred
In the 1950s at the fictional Lancashire village of Ormston, a father and son, both doctors, navigate the challenges of running a cottage hospital under the newly established National Health Service.
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
The Doctor takes Ace on an initiative test to a strange Victorian old house where she is forced to confront her darkest fears.
It's Your Move
A silent slapstick comedy depicting the travails of young couple moving into a new home, who hire an accident-prone firm of house removers, headed by Sykes. It features an all-star cast including Tommy Cooper, Bernard Cribbins, Jimmy Edwards, Irene Handl, Bob Todd and Andrew Sachs.
The Human Jungle
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
Doctor Who
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
The Punch and Judy Man
Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife, who gets him to perform at the 60th Anniversary celebrations of the town in front of all the local dignitaries, his hatred of snobbery comes to a hilarious head.
Gentleman Jack
Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family - by taking a wife.
Case Histories
Case Histories is a British drama television series based on the Jackson Brodie detective novels by Kate Atkinson. It stars Jason Isaacs as Jackson Brodie.
Agatha Christie's Marple
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.
Nancy Astor
Nancy Astor was the American-born socialite and politician who became the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons. This miniseries produced for BBC2 follows her journey from her early life in Virginia to her political career in Britain, including her marriage to Waldorf Astor and her struggles and triumphs as a Member of Parliament.
Filmography
as Mrs Rawson
as Self - Presenter
as Narrator
as Hip Operation Woman
as Alice
as Mrs Nicholls
as Binky Rain
as Mrs. Didcott
as Hotelier
as Joyce Thompson
as Lilian
as Mrs. Hedges
as Queen Mother
as Belle Rosen
as Alice
as Lavinia Pinkerton
as Beatrice
as Peggy Gaumont
as Mrs. Bartz
as Princess Charlotte
as Madame Fleury
as Elizabeth Grimshaw
as Elsie Beamish
as Rose Hussein
as Marion Riley
as Margaret Larkin
as Mrs. Campness
as Mrs. Harvey-Brown
as Esme Carling
as Maisie Barron
as Margaret Thatcher
as Lady Constance
as Claudia
as Margaret
as Mrs. Crosby
as Isabel de Gines
as Peggy Tatton
as Springtime
as Linda's Mother
as Diana
as Margaret Thatcher
as Mrs Pritchard
as Headmistress
as Rebecca Huntley-Pike
as Self
as Annie Stanhope
as Stephen's mother
as Mrs. Whalby
as Mrs. Thorn
as Lilian Crown
as Bunny Tyrill
as Mrs. Bullock
as Cynthia Eve
as Viven Scott-Forbes
as Mrs. Easterbrook
as The Wife
as Self
as Nanaire Langhorne
as Ursula Westerby
as Wendy Hammond
as Margaret Stephenson
as Ruth
as Karen Ballard
as Carol Webber
as Mrs. Ransome
as Laura
as Joyce Darling
as Sheila Larkin
as Barbara Canning
as Myrtle Robbins
as Constance Babington Smith
as Miss Woodville
as Mrs. Pritchard
as Billa
as Delia Pinner
as Margo
as Arlene
as Lady Anne Yearley
as Amos Klein
as Jeannine Roger
as Kathleen
as Self
as Self
as Laura Farr
as Kathie Palmer
as Clelia
as Kay O’Neill
as Paula Glover
as Sister Mitya
as Maisie King
as Liz Ferrers
as Hetty
as Ann Wainwright
as Anne Wyndham
as Sister Diana Murdoch
as Jean Scott
as Nurse Margaret Collier
as Georgie Harlow
as Kay McCone
as Mary Fleming
as Janet Carr