Sylvia Syms
Birthday: 1934-01-06
Place of Birth: Woolwich, London, England, UK
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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The Queen
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Pr...
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Asylum
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum and must pass a test by interviewing four ...
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Operation Crossbow
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and ...
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Victim
A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, t...
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Ice Cold in Alex
A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of Nort...
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The Big Job
A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught a...
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Shirley Valentine
Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds h...
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Dirty Weekend
Shortly after she moves into her own flat in Brighton, Bella finds she is being spied on and general...
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Booked Out
Ailidh (Mirren Burke) has two loves in this world: spying on her neighbours and writing graphic nove...
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Bette and Joan
Sylvia Syms looks through the BBC archives to tell the story of one of Hollywood's greatest ever feu...
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Danger Route
Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but h...
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Ferry to Hong Kong
Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police af...
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It's Your Move
A silent slapstick comedy depicting the travails of young couple moving into a new home, who hire an...
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Run Wild, Run Free
A young boy, unable to speak, befriends a wild colt with blue eyes and a falcon named "Lady"....
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Hostile Witness
Simon Crawford is a barrister whose daughter is killed in a hit-and-run accident. When his neighbor ...
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Expresso Bongo
A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation....
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Amazons of Rome
Marching down the Italian peninsula to sack ancient Rome, Etruscan warrior Drusco instead offers to ...
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The Quare Fellow
Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, d...
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Half the Picture
A dramatized account of the Scott Inquiry about the sales of arms to Iraq....
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Conspiracy of Hearts
In wartime Italy nuns in a convent regularly smuggle Jewish children out of a nearby internment camp...
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The World Ten Times Over
Early 1960s realist drama following a day in the lives of two London flatmates. Sylvia Syms and June...
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Give Us Tomorrow
Masked intruders take the family of a bank manager hostage in order to rob his bank....
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No Trees in the Street
Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England...
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Flame in the Streets
Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manife...
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The Moonraker
After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonw...
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East of Sudan
A British soldier escapes from 1880s Khartoum and goes down the Nile river with a fellow soldier, a ...
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Mavis and the Mermaid
A small girl, who doesn't believe in fairytales, meets an old woman who claims she is a mermaid....
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Child of Mine
A child psychologist adopted two girls whose mother was murdered, but when one begins acting strange...
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Run For Your Wife
John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie ...
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Woman in a Dressing Gown
A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in...
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The Desperados
A Confederate and his sons become postwar marauders and face another son who left them, in Texas....
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My Teenage Daughter
Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet,...
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The Birthday Present
Returning from a business trip, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatc...
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What a Girl Wants
An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of fi...
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There Goes The Bride
A nervous ad executive creates havoc on his daughter's wedding day and becomes obsessed with a dream...
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The Laughter of God
Steve and Jane Clemant live a seemingly conent and happy life. They are both successful, professiona...
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A Chorus of Disapproval
Guy Jones (Irons) moves to a small British town and joins the local amateur dramatics society as a w...
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The Tamarind Seed
During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian age...
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No Time for Tears
The interwoven dramas of staff and patients in Mayfield Children's Hospital, where the doctors and n...
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Staggered
Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a S...
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Bunny and the Bull
A young shut-in takes an imaginary road trip inside his apartment, based on mementos and memories of...
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The Fiction Makers
Simon Templar is hired by a friend in the book publishing trade to protect one of his stars, a secre...
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Is Anybody There?
A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician....
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Absolute Beginners
A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old pho...
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Mr. H Is Late
A team of inept undertakers attempt to get a coffin to a funeral on time. An undertaker is in charge...
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Neville's Island
Comedy about 4 middle aged businessmen on a team building exercise in the lake district...
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The Punch and Judy Man
Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Un...
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Doctor Who: Ghost Light
The Doctor takes Ace on an initiative test to a strange Victorian old house where she is forced to c...
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Shining Through
Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic ...
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Food of Love
A group of ex-university students reunite to perform a Shakespeare play in a quaint English village....
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Together
An elderly couple face separation when one of them is admitted to a care home....
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The Poseidon Adventure
A cruise ship succumbs to a terrorist act and capsizes on New Year's eve. A rag-tag group of survivo...
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The World of Suzie Wong
A Hong Kong prostitute tries modeling and falls for the artist who's painting her....
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Thatcher: The Final Days
The re-creation of events leading up to Margaret Thatcher's defeat as party leader and Britain's Pri...
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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Will Graham is a former London crime boss who has left his former life to live as a recluse in the f...
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Dancing
Dying of cancer, an old woman trapped in her Glasgow flat relieves her pain by drinking morphine and...
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