Sylvia Kay

Acting

Sylvia Kay

Born 1936-05-16 · Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK

Acting credits

Wake in Fright poster
7.2

A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.

Wake in Fright

1971

The Exorcism poster
10.0

Four friends gather for Christmas dinner at an old cottage. Suddenly, there's a power failure and the phone goes dead. Then their wine turns to blood and the turkey makes them violently ill. Then things really get strange!

The Exorcism

1972

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? poster
6.1

Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

1978

Rapture poster
7.1

Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union.

Rapture

1965

Kill Me Tomorrow poster
5.5

A reporter who needs cash for his son's operation is paid by a smuggler to take a murder rap.

Kill Me Tomorrow

1957

Dad poster
NR

'Listen Dad, it's me, Tom. I know you recognise me. Why don't you speak? Just say my name. Tom.' Dad's bewildering silence forces the family to face truths they would rather forget.

Dad

1976

Coming Out of the Ice poster
6.8

A biographical film about Victor Herman, based on the memoir of the same name.

Coming Out of the Ice

1982

That Kind of Girl poster
5.8

That Kind of Girl is a British cult film and the directorial debut of Gerry O'Hara. Produced by Robert Hartford-Davis with a script by Jan Read, it was released in 1963. The film's subject is premarital sexual relationships and sexually transmitted diseases in an English 1960s millieu.

That Kind of Girl

1963

No artwork available
NR

A domineering, reclusive and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.

The House of Bernarda Alba

1976

Skin Deep poster
7.0

Gerry Muddiman works for a large American corporation, supposedly modern and forward-thinking, but whose style of modern business paternalism and methods ends up driving a wedge between him and his wife.

Skin Deep

1971

Fearless Frank poster
NR

The outrageous – and not entirely reliable – memoirs of Irish writer Frank Harris, sometime cowboy in the Old West, friend to the famous in the literary world, essayist and critic, and seducer of beautiful women.

Fearless Frank

1978

Jumping Bean Bag poster
8.0

At an end-of-term school play, Ozzie and his band join in with a hard rock contribution. However, this leads to the unexpected fame of the schoolboy rock group, and they find that there is a darker down-side to fame and being successful music stars.

Jumping Bean Bag

1976

A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter poster
NR

In prison the night before his execution, republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, drawn and quartered for treason

A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter

1981

No artwork available
NR

Ambition takes hold of fashion-house salesman Ronnie Page as he forgets those closest to him in his desire for a successful career.

My Representative

1960

No artwork available
NR

Tough merchant seaman Pat Greevey returns to his family in Liverpool to find the key to a recent death.

The Hard Knock

1962

And Did Those Feet ? poster
10.0

Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.

And Did Those Feet ?

1965

No artwork available
NR

Stephen (Paul Henley) works in a bank. A virgin, he shows no interest in sex, and is cruelly scorned by an aggressive female neighbour when he rebuffs her advances. He lives with his mother, an overbearing woman who mocks him for being wet. But Stephen has a secret – he likes to wear women’s clothing. When his horrified mother finds out, she takes him to meet a fellow cross-dresser to ‘solve’ the problem. But the meeting ends unexpectedly, when the other man realises that Stephen is not transvestite, but transsexual.

Even Solomon

1979

No artwork available
9.0

Play about two brothers who both want their Welsh grandfather to live with them.

After the Funeral

1960

No artwork available
NR

An ex-scientist has prepared a report on a carcinogenic baby milk formula. She now runs a restaurant in the Cotswolds. The management of the manufacturer despatches an undercover operative to silence her.

Dark Secret

1981

No artwork available
NR

Follows a bedsit girl with a dark and damaging secret.

Susan

1975

No artwork available
NR

Pam is concerned when her husband’s ex-wife comes to visit. She seems to be both dangerous and romantic… Is she a threat?

Family Tree

1973