Sylvia Coleridge

Sylvia Coleridge
Sylvia Coleridge playing Mrs. Salt, owneress of the Salt Line, in the episode "The Gamble " in the series "The Onedin Line"
Born	Kathleen Sylvia Duke Coleridge (1909-12-10)10 December 1909 Darjeeling, British India (present-day India)
Died	31 May 1986(1986-05-31) (aged 76) London, England
Occupation	British actress

Sylvia Coleridge (10 December 1909 – 31 May 1986) was a British stage, radio and television actress.

Coleridge was born in Darjeeling, British India, now present-day India.

Her TV acting credits include: Out of the Unknown, The Avengers, Paul Temple, The Lotus Eaters, Ace of Wands, The Tomorrow People, Z-Cars, Public Eye, Sutherland's Law, Dixon of Dock Green, The Onedin Line, Doctor Who (in the serial The Seeds of Doom), Survivors, Armchair Thriller (in the serial Quiet as a Nun), Blake's 7 (in the episode Gambit as the Croupier), Shoestring, The Flipside of Dominick Hide, Angels, Rumpole of the Bailey, Artemis 81 and Bleak House.

Tom Baker mentioned on the DVD commentary for The Robots of Death that he had been so taken with Coleridge's eccentric performance in The Seeds of Doom that he had suggested her as the new Doctor Who companion to producer Graham Williams.