A prolific actress, Sylvia Syms was at the heart of British cinema for many years. One of Sylvia’s earliest films was “Woman in a Dressing Gown” with Yvonne Mitchell & Carole Lesley.

“Woman in a Dressing Gown” premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival where it won four awards. The film went on to open in London at the Warner Cinema on the 3rd of October 1957.

Other film credits include “The Moonraker” with George Baker; classic war film “Ice Cold in Alex” with John Mills & Harry Andrews; “No Trees in the Street” with Stanley Holloway; “Ferry to Hong Kong” with Orson Welles & Noel Purcell; “Expresso Bongo” with Laurence Harvey & Cliff Richard; “Victim” with Dirk Bogarde, Dennis Price, Peter McEnery, & Frank Thornton; “Danger Route” with Diana Dors & Gordon Jackson; “Operation Crossbow” with John Fraser; “The World of Suzie Wong” with Nancy Kwan; “Flame in the Streets” with Earl Cameron & Meredith Edwards; “The Punch & Judy Man” with Tony Hancock, Barbara Murray, Eddie Byrne, & Hattie Jacques; “The Big Job”, a Carry On film in all but name, with Sid James, Dick Emery, Joan Sims, Jim Dale, & Edina Ronay; “The Desparados” with Kate O’Mara; “Asylum” with Richard Todd, Charlotte Rampling, & Britt Ekland; “There Goes the Bride” with Twiggy; “Shirley Valentine” with Pauline Collins & Joanna Lumley; “Staggered” with Virginia McKenna; “The House of Angelo” with Edward Woodward; “Is Anybody There?” with Michael Caine; and a role as The Queen Mother in the film “The Queen” starring Helen Mirren.

TV credits include “The Saint“, “Danger Man“, “The Human Jungle” with Herbert Lom, & “Eastenders“, to name a very few.