Elizabeth Spriggs
Elizabeth Jean Spriggs -Manson (née Williams) was an English character actress. Her roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company included Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Gertrude in Hamlet and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing. In 1978, she won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress for Arnold Wesker's Love Letters on Blue Paper. Her best known role in film was as Mrs. Jennings in Sense and Sensibility (1995), for which she received a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include Richard's Things (1980), Impromptu (1991), Paradise Road (1997) and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001).
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his...
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Sense and Sensibility
as Mrs. JenningsThe Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem...
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Paradise Road
as Mrs. RobertsA group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being...
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
as Lady EvaAfter a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love...
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Alice in Wonderland
as DuchessAlice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets...
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A Christmas Carol
as Mrs RiggsMiser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own...
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Is Anybody There?
as PrudenceA young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
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The Barber of Siberia
as PerepiolkinaDouglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new,...
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Impromptu
as Baroness LaginskyIn 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined,...
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The Secret Agent
as Winnie's MotherIn 1880s London, pornographic bookseller Verloc is a double agent for the Russian government,...
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The Last Vampyre
as Eileen MasonSherlock Holmes investigates strange and tragic happenings in a village that appear linked to a...
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The Dybbuk
as FradeA young bride is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the...
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Spider's Web
as Mildred PeakeClarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to...
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The Sleeper
as CathViolet Moon wants to be in control of the circumstances and people in her life. Particularly her...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
as SchultzIndy finds that he must enlist the help of Hapsburg royalty when he embarks on a dangerous...
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Those Glory Glory Days
as School MistressGirls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the...
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The Hour of the Pig
as Madame LangloisIn medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the...
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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
as Miss MarklandAfter finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency,...
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3 Into 2 Won't Go
as MarciaSteve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a...
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A Pinch of Snuff
as Annabelle AndoverReceiving a tip from his dentist Jack Shorter, policeman Peter Pascoe takes a closer look at the...
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
as Mistress QuicklyWhen Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a...
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The Cause
as Olive James"I wish I could write ... about what Spain was like - a real cause. Not just Cornford, Hemingway...
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The Old Devils
as Dorothy MorganAn adaptation of the novel by Kingsley Amis about a group of university friends reunited in...
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Afternoon Off
as Miss BeckinsaleLee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little...
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Richard's Things
as Mrs. SellsFollowing her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual...
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Work Is a 4-Letter Word
as Mrs MurrayDreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate...
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James Ellis: An Actor's Life
as HerselfDocumentary tracing the life of James Ellis, one of Northern Ireland’s best loved actors.
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Love Letters on Blue Paper
as Sonia MarsdenWhy has Sonia taken to writing letters to her husband, posted to him in the letter-box just...
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The Cold Room
as Frau HoffmanA girl visiting modern day East Germany with her estranged father begins reliving the horrifying...
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Sakharov
as Nobel PresenterBiography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his...
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The Enigma
as Miss ParsonsWhen John Fielding, MP, disappeared on the way home to his country estates he was, perhaps,...
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The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
as uncreditedSet in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve...
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For My Baby
as Olga JenikovaA young Austrian comedian struggles with the nightmare of his past and a dead sister who refuses...
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Julius Caesar
as CalphurniaThe assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic...
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Fothergill
as Middle Class WomanJohn Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame,...
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The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
as Mrs RadcliffeA day in the life of Mrs Radcliffe , who believes that the advice she so freely gives is done...
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The Devil's Disciple
as Mrs. DudgeonShaw turned to the classic Victorian melodrama to focus on the insincerity of much that his...
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Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
as TabbyThe Doctor and Mel visit Paradise Towers, a residential complex that promises a peaceful life to...
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The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
as Mrs. PalmerThirteen-year-old Cassie Palmer, the seventh child of a seventh child, has inherited the gift of...
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Parker
as Mrs. EppsAn Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later...
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Our Winnie
as CoraWinnie is a mentally handicapped woman who lives with her elderly mother (Cora) and aunt (Ida)....
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Leeds United!
as MaggieThe true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be...
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Survival of the Fittest
as Eileen BlackettMolly Cowper is a wilful 80-year-old widow who firmly believes the world is there for her...
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Able's Will
as SarahThomas Able, once a successful writer, has not written since the war. He lies paralysed and...
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Midsomer Murders
as Iris RainbirdThe peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...
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Midsomer Murders
as Ursula GoodingThe peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...
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Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Mrs. LeadbetterFrom England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet...
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Doctor Who
as MaddyThe adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores...
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Sherlock Holmes
as Mrs MasonSherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the...
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Casualty
as Barbara ThomasDrama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...
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Play for Today
as Sonia MarsdenPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
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Play for Today
as Olive JamesPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
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Play for Today
as Alice DuckworthPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
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Play for Today
as MaggiePlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
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Tales of the Unexpected
as Aunt MayA British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...
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Tales of the Unexpected
as MarthaA British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...
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Heartbeat
as Rene KirbySet during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...
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Heartbeat
as Mrs. AndrewsSet during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...
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Tales from the Crypt
as Mrs. TraskCadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and...
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Bergerac
as Mary Lou CostainBergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the...
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Jeeves and Wooster
as Aunt AgathaJeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's...
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The Expert
as Mrs. KynestonThe Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series...
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Lovejoy
as Daphne ShotleyThe adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East...
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The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
as SchultzAt the dawn of the 20th century, Indiana Jones discovered the world. From globetrotting family...
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The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Eva PeterleeThe Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television...
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BBC Play of the Month
as Maud LowderPlay of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...
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BBC Television Shakespeare
as uncreditedThe BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of...
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Soldier Soldier
as Mrs. HenwoodThe daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers.
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Middlemarch
as Mrs. Cadwallader19th century Great Britain. The Industrial Revolution brings both the promise and fear of...
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Wives and Daughters
as Mrs. GoodenoughWives and Daughters is a 1999 four part BBC serial adapted from the novel Wives and Daughters:...
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Shackleton
as Janet Stancombe WillsThe true story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his...
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Fox
as Connie FoxFox is a British television drama series produced by Euston Films and Thames Television for the...
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Watching
as Aunt PeggyA British television sitcom set on Merseyside that revolves around the relationship between...
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Shine on Harvey Moon
as uncreditedShine on Harvey Moon! is a British comedy-drama series made by Central Television for ITV from 8...
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Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
as uncreditedA modern day version of the 1969 detective series about Private Investigator Jeff Randall, who...
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Time for Murder
as Evelyn SmithWritten by six of Britain's finest writers (including Fay Weldon, Antonia Fraser, and Michael...
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Jericho
as Ellen JerichoJericho is an ITV British crime drama series which was transmitted in 2005. It was created and...
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Martin Chuzzlewit
as Mrs. GampWhen old Martin Chuzzlewit disinherits his grandson, he falls prey to a host of rapacious relatives.
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Takin' Over the Asylum
as GrandmaA salesman starts to run a hospital radio station inside a facility for people with mental heath...
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Young Charlie Chaplin
as Madge KendalThe challenging and spirited early life of cinema's first great comedic artist, Charlie Chaplin,...
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Love Soup
as Penny's Mother (voice)Bittersweet comedy drama about the eternal search for the perfect partner.
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Kind of Living
as uncreditedTrevor Beasley (Richard Griffiths), a schoolteacher, has his head stuck firmly in the past,...
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
as MaySeven-year-old Jess is removed from her peculiar Pentecostal home and sent to school.
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Class Act
as Harriet MainwaringClass Act was a short-lived British comedy drama series produced in the early to mid-1990s by...
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Anglo Saxon Attitudes
as Inge MiddletonGerald Middleton, is a taciturn and methodical man, a creature of habit who likes to have his...
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Objects of Affection
as CoraA series of plays written by Alan Bennett.
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The Glittering Prizes
as Lady Frances DavidsonThe Glittering Prizes is a British television drama about the changing lives of a group of...
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The Royal
as Dolly SmithFollows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled...
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Simon and the Witch
as The WitchSimon is a very sensible young schoolboy, who has a friend who is a real witch. She is very...
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