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).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7374 |
| Birthday | 1934-01-06 |
| Place of Birth | Woolwich, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Sylvia Sims, Silvia Syms, Sylvia May Laura Syms, |
2006
The Queen
7/1419
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, fol...
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The Queen
1972
Asylum
6/192
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients...
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Asylum
1965
Operation Crossbow
6.7/113
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between Ge...
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Operation Crossbow
1961
Victim
7.5/156
A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of suc...
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Victim
1958
Ice Cold in Alex
7.3/99
A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader o...
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Ice Cold in Alex
1965
The Big Job
6.7/26
A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge fro...
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The Big Job
1989
Shirley Valentine
6.271/107
Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while prepari...
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Shirley Valentine
1993
Dirty Weekend
4.7/16
Shortly after she moves into her own flat in Brighton, Bella finds she is being spied on and generally harassed by a man living across from her. Final...
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Dirty Weekend
2012
Booked Out
4.3/6
Ailidh (Mirren Burke) has two loves in this world: spying on her neighbours and writing graphic novels. The arrival of Jacob (Rollo Weeks - Girl with...
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Booked Out
2017
Bette and Joan
0/0
Sylvia Syms looks through the BBC archives to tell the story of one of Hollywood's greatest ever feuds - the rivalry between legendary actresses Bette...
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Bette and Joan
1967
Danger Route
5.5/20
Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but his superiors pressure him into taking on a new ass...
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Danger Route
1959
Ferry to Hong Kong
5.5/14
Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao on...
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Ferry to Hong Kong
1982
It's Your Move
8/7
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...
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It's Your Move
1969
Run Wild, Run Free
6/7
A young boy, unable to speak, befriends a wild colt with blue eyes and a falcon named "Lady".
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Run Wild, Run Free
1968
Hostile Witness
6.2/10
Simon Crawford is a barrister whose daughter is killed in a hit-and-run accident. When his neighbor is also killed, evidence points to the barrister a...
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Hostile Witness
1959
Expresso Bongo
5.167/18
A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.
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Expresso Bongo
1961
Amazons of Rome
4.5/7
Marching down the Italian peninsula to sack ancient Rome, Etruscan warrior Drusco instead offers to hold back his onslaught if the Romans hand over ho...
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Amazons of Rome
1962
The Quare Fellow
5.3/10
Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meti...
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The Quare Fellow
1996
Half the Picture
0/0
A dramatized account of the Scott Inquiry about the sales of arms to Iraq.
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Half the Picture
1960
Conspiracy of Hearts
6.7/18
In wartime Italy nuns in a convent regularly smuggle Jewish children out of a nearby internment camp. The Italian army officer in charge suspects what...
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Conspiracy of Hearts
1963
The World Ten Times Over
7/4
Early 1960s realist drama following a day in the lives of two London flatmates. Sylvia Syms and June Ritchie star as Billa and Ginnie, two singletons...
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The World Ten Times Over
1978
Give Us Tomorrow
3.1/4
Masked intruders take the family of a bank manager hostage in order to rob his bank.
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Give Us Tomorrow
1959
No Trees in the Street
5.8/10
Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide...
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No Trees in the Street
2010
The Long Lonely Walk
0/0
In all walks of life, there are challenges that lie ahead.
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The Long Lonely Walk
1961
Flame in the Streets
6/10
Domestic difficulties develop in a working-class family when their daughter falls in love with a Jamaican man.
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Flame in the Streets
1958
The Moonraker
6.556/9
After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future kin...
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The Moonraker
1964
East of Sudan
5.3/5
A British soldier escapes from 1880s Khartoum and goes down the Nile river with a fellow soldier, a governess and the daughter of an emir.
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East of Sudan
2000
Mavis and the Mermaid
0/0
A small girl, who doesn't believe in fairytales, meets an old woman who claims she is a mermaid.
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Mavis and the Mermaid
2005
Child of Mine
5.6/10
A child psychologist adopted two girls whose mother was murdered, but when one begins acting strangely, fear drives her to the crime scene for answer.
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Child of Mine
2012
Run For Your Wife
4.4/11
John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell. Fortunately...
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Run For Your Wife
1957
Woman in a Dressing Gown
6.158/19
A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beau...
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Woman in a Dressing Gown
1969
The Desperados
3.9/19
A Confederate and his sons become postwar marauders and face another son who left them, in Texas.
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The Desperados
1956
My Teenage Daughter
6/3
Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the S...
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My Teenage Daughter
1957
The Birthday Present
7.1/4
Returning from a business trip, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatch bought for his wife's birthday through Customs....
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The Birthday Present
2003
What a Girl Wants
6.304/1714
An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, sh...
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What a Girl Wants
1980
There Goes The Bride
0/0
A nervous ad executive creates havoc on his daughter's wedding day and becomes obsessed with a dream girl he keeps seeing everywhere but whom he can't...
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There Goes The Bride
1991
The Laughter of God
1/1
Steve and Jane Clemant live a seemingly conent and happy life. They are both successful, professional people with a comfy home and a wide circle of fr...
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The Laughter of God
1989
A Chorus of Disapproval
5.3/23
Guy Jones (Irons) moves to a small British town and joins the local amateur dramatics society as a way to meet people. However he soon finds the drama...
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A Chorus of Disapproval
1974
The Tamarind Seed
6.2/51
During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian agent.
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The Tamarind Seed
1957
No Time for Tears
5/3
The interwoven dramas of staff and patients in Mayfield Children's Hospital, where the doctors and nurses are in the business of restoring children's...
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No Time for Tears
1994
Staggered
5.2/13
Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a Scottish island. A road trip ensues, with Neil enco...
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Staggered
2009
Bunny and the Bull
6.1/72
A young shut-in takes an imaginary road trip inside his apartment, based on mementos and memories of a European trek from years before.
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Bunny and the Bull
1968
The Fiction Makers
7/11
Simon Templar is hired by a friend in the book publishing trade to protect one of his stars, a secretive recluse named Amos Klein who writes a popular...
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The Fiction Makers
2009
Is Anybody There?
6.34/75
A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
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Is Anybody There?
1986
Absolute Beginners
5.4/67
A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model C...
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Absolute Beginners
1988
Mr. H Is Late
6.6/5
A team of inept undertakers attempt to get a coffin to a funeral on time. An undertaker is in charge of moving a coffin from a home to the church. The...
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Mr. H Is Late
1998
Neville's Island
5.7/6
Comedy about 4 middle aged businessmen on a team building exercise in the lake district
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Neville's Island
1989
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
8.4/7
The Doctor takes Ace on an initiative test to a strange Victorian old house where she is forced to confront her darkest fears.
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Doctor Who: Ghost Light
1963
The Punch and Judy Man
7.8/16
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 g...
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The Punch and Judy Man
1992
Shining Through
6.5/222
Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War...
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Shining Through
1997
Food of Love
3/3
A group of ex-university students reunite to perform a Shakespeare play in a quaint English village.
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Food of Love
2018
Together
0/0
An elderly couple face separation when one of them is admitted to a care home.
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Together
2005
The Poseidon Adventure
5.2/120
A cruise ship succumbs to a terrorist act and capsizes on New Year's eve. A rag-tag group of survivors, spearheaded by a priest and a homeland securit...
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The Poseidon Adventure
1960
The World of Suzie Wong
6.5/42
A Hong Kong prostitute tries modeling and falls for the artist who's painting her.
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The World of Suzie Wong
1991
Thatcher: The Final Days
6.5/2
The re-creation of events leading up to Margaret Thatcher's defeat as party leader and Britain's Prime Minister.
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Thatcher: The Final Days
1958
Bachelor of Hearts
5.6/8
A German scholar has girl troubles while studying at Cambridge.
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Bachelor of Hearts
2003
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
5.5/124
Will Graham is a former London crime boss who has left his former life to live as a recluse in the forest. Haunted by the blood of those he has murder...
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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
1995
Dancing
0/0
Dying of cancer, an old woman trapped in her Glasgow flat relieves her pain by drinking morphine and whisky cocktails and dreaming of her youth and da...
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Dancing
2007
The Making of 'The Queen'
6/1
Documentary on the making of the 2006 film 'The Queen'.
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