Sybil Thorndike

Actor 1922–1970 (48 year career)

6.1 avg rating

Highest Rated

Tudor Rose

1936 · as Ellen

8.1

Hand in Hand

1961 · as Lady Caroline

7.2

Smiley Gets a Gun

1958 · as Granny McKinley

7.0

Known For

Film

Stage Fright

Mrs. Gill

Film

The Prince and the Showgirl

The Queen Dowager

Film

Gone to Earth

Mrs. Marston

Film

Major Barbara

The General

Film

Shake Hands with the Devil

Lady Fitzhugh

Film

The Magic Box

Sitter in Bath Studio

Film

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Mrs. Squeers

Film

Jet Storm

Emma Morgan

Filmography

Acting (35)

Movies (31)

The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens

1970

as Elizabeth Ball Dickens

Don't Utter a Note

1966

as Florence Pringle

Man and Mirror

1965

as Isabel Manners

A Passage to India

1965

as Mrs Moore

Uncle Vanya

as Marina, the nurse

The Big Gamble

as Aunt Cathleen

Hand in Hand

as Lady Caroline

Riders to the Sea

as Maurya

Alive and Kicking

1959

as Dora

6.9

Shake Hands with the Devil

as Lady Fitzhugh

Jet Storm

as Emma Morgan

Smiley Gets a Gun

as Granny McKinley

The Prince and the Showgirl

1957

as The Queen Dowager

6.4

Bernard Shaw

1957

as Self

The Weak and the Wicked

1954

as Mabel Wicks, Millie's friend

Melba

as Queen Victoria

The Magic Box

as Sitter in Bath Studio

The Lady with a Lamp

as Miss Bosanquet

Gone to Earth

as Mrs. Marston

Stage Fright

as Mrs. Gill

The Forbidden Street

as Mrs. 'The Sow' Mounsey

6.7

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

as Mrs. Squeers

Major Barbara

as The General

Tudor Rose

as Ellen

A Gentleman of Paris

as Lola Duval

Hindle Wakes

as Mrs. Hawthorne

To What Red Hell

1929

as Mrs Fairfield

Dawn

1928

as Nurse Edith Cavell

Esmeralda

1922

as Esmeralda

Macbeth

1922

as Lady Macbeth

Bleak House

1922

as Lady Dedlock

Television (4)

The Dick Cavett Show

1968

as Self - Guest

6.8

BBC Play of the Month

1965

as Mrs Moore

5.0

Armchair Mystery Theatre

1960

as Mrs. Isabel Manners

Armchair Theatre

1956

as Florence Pringle

5.8