Elizabeth Spriggs

Born: 1929-09-18

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).


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as The Fat Lady
Released: 2001-11-16

Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his...

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Lady Chatterley's Lover

as Lady Eva
Released: 1981-06-29

After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love...

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Sense and Sensibility

as Mrs. Jennings
Released: 1995-12-13

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem...

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A Christmas Carol

as Mrs Riggs
Released: 1999-12-05

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own...

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Alice in Wonderland

as Duchess
Released: 1999-02-28

Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets...

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The Barber of Siberia

as Perepiolkina
Released: 1998-11-11

Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new,...

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Paradise Road

as Mrs. Roberts
Released: 1997-02-11

A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being...

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Impromptu

as Baroness Laginsky
Released: 1991-04-12

In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined,...

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The Secret Agent

as Winnie's Mother
Released: 1996-11-08

In 1880s London, pornographic bookseller Verloc is a double agent for the Russian government,...

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The Hour of the Pig

as Madame Langlois
Released: 1993-09-25

In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the...

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Is Anybody There?

as Prudence
Released: 2009-04-17

A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.

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The Last Vampyre

as Eileen Mason
Released: 1993-03-14

Sherlock Holmes investigates strange and tragic happenings in a village that appear linked to a...

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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service

as Schultz
Released: 1999-11-21

In the thirteenth film in the series, in March 1917, Indiana Jones, now a captain in the French...

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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

as Miss Markland
Released: 1982-02-16

After finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency,...

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The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

as uncredited
Released: 2004-12-25

Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve...

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The Merry Wives of Windsor

as Mistress Quickly
Released: 1982-12-28

When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a...

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Julius Caesar

as Calphurnia
Released: 1979-02-11

The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic...

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Richard's Things

as Mrs. Sells
Released: 1980-12-26

Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual...

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The Dybbuk

as Frade
Released: 1980-02-24

A young bride is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the...

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For My Baby

as Olga Jenikova
Released: 2000-10-19

A young Austrian comedian struggles with the nightmare of his past and a dead sister who refuses...

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The Devil's Disciple

as Mrs. Dudgeon
Released: 1987-05-17

Shaw turned to the classic Victorian melodrama to focus on the insincerity of much that his...

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A Pinch of Snuff

as Annabelle Andover
Released: 1994-04-09

Receiving a tip from his dentist Jack Shorter, policeman Peter Pascoe takes a closer look at the...

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Those Glory Glory Days

as School Mistress
Released: 1983-11-17

Girls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the...

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Spider's Web

as Mildred Peake
Released: 1982-12-26

Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to...

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3 Into 2 Won't Go

as Marcia
Released: 1969-07-02

Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a...

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The Cold Room

as Frau Hoffman
Released: 1984-03-24

A girl visiting modern day East Germany with her estranged father begins reliving the horrifying...

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Work Is a 4-Letter Word

as Mrs Murray
Released: 1968-09-15

Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate...

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The Sleeper

as Cath
Released: 2000-12-26

Violet Moon wants to be in control of the circumstances and people in her life. Particularly her...

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The Haunting of Cassie Palmer

as Mrs. Palmer
Released: 1982-02-26

Thirteen-year-old Cassie Palmer, the seventh child of a seventh child, has inherited the gift of...

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The Cause

as Olive James
Released: 1981-02-03

"I wish I could write ... about what Spain was like - a real cause. Not just Cornford, Hemingway...

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James Ellis: An Actor's Life

as Herself
Released: 2007-07-02

Documentary tracing the life of James Ellis, one of Northern Ireland’s best loved actors.

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Afternoon Off

as Miss Beckinsale
Released: 1979-02-03

Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little...

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Sakharov

as Nobel Presenter
Released: 1984-06-20

Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his...

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Leeds United!

as Maggie
Released: 1974-10-31

The 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 Blackett
Released: 1990-10-21

Molly Cowper is a wilful 80-year-old widow who firmly believes the world is there for her...

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The Old Devils

as Dorothy Morgan
Released: 1992-03-16

An adaptation of the novel by Kingsley Amis about a group of university friends reunited in...

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Our Winnie

as Cora
Released: 1982-11-12

Winnie is a mentally handicapped woman who lives with her elderly mother (Cora) and aunt (Ida)....

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Parker

as Mrs. Epps
Released: 1985-05-03

An Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later...

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Doctor Who: Paradise Towers

as Tabby
Released: 1987-10-26

The Doctor and Mel visit Paradise Towers, a residential complex that promises a peaceful life to...

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The Enigma

as Miss Parsons
Released: 1980-02-09

When John Fielding, MP, disappeared on the way home to his country estates he was, perhaps,...

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Fothergill

as Middle Class Woman
Released: 1981-01-08

John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame,...

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Love Letters on Blue Paper

as Sonia Marsden
Released: 1976-03-02

Why has Sonia taken to writing letters to her husband, posted to him in the letter-box just...

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The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe

as Mrs Radcliffe
Released: 1981-01-23

A day in the life of Mrs Radcliffe , who believes that the advice she so freely gives is done...

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Able's Will

as Sarah
Released: 1977-10-05

Thomas Able, once a successful writer, has not written since the war. He lies paralysed and...

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Midsomer Murders

as Iris Rainbird
First aired: 1997-03-23

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...

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Midsomer Murders

as Ursula Gooding
First aired: 1997-03-23

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...

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Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Mrs. Leadbetter
First aired: 1989-01-08

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet...

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Doctor Who

as Maddy
First aired: 1963-11-23

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores...

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Play for Today

as Sonia Marsden
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

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Play for Today

as Olive James
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

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Play for Today

as Alice Duckworth
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

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Play for Today

as Maggie
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

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Sherlock Holmes

as Mrs Mason
First aired: 1984-04-24

Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the...

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Tales of the Unexpected

as Aunt May
First aired: 1979-03-24

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...

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Tales of the Unexpected

as Martha
First aired: 1979-03-24

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...

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Heartbeat

as Rene Kirby
First aired: 1992-04-10

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...

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Heartbeat

as Mrs. Andrews
First aired: 1992-04-10

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...

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Bergerac

as Mary Lou Costain
First aired: 1981-10-18

Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the...

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Casualty

as Barbara Thomas
First aired: 1986-09-06

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...

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Tales from the Crypt

as Mrs. Trask
First aired: 1989-06-10

Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and...

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The Expert

as Mrs. Kyneston
First aired: 1968-07-05

The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series...

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The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

as Eva Peterlee
First aired: 1987-08-02

The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television...

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BBC Television Shakespeare

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-12-03

The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of...

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BBC Play of the Month

as Maud Lowder
First aired: 1965-10-19

Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...

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The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

as Schultz
First aired: 1992-03-04

At the dawn of the 20th century, Indiana Jones discovered the world. From globetrotting family...

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Lovejoy

as Daphne Shotley
First aired: 1986-01-10

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East...

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Soldier Soldier

as Mrs. Henwood
First aired: 1991-06-10

The daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers.

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Jeeves and Wooster

as Aunt Agatha
First aired: 1990-04-22

Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's...

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Wives and Daughters

as Mrs. Goodenough
First aired: 1999-11-28

Wives and Daughters is a 1999 four part BBC serial adapted from the novel Wives and Daughters:...

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Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

as uncredited
First aired: 2000-03-18

A modern day version of the 1969 detective series about Private Investigator Jeff Randall, who...

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Middlemarch

as Mrs. Cadwallader
First aired: 1994-04-10

19th century Great Britain. The Industrial Revolution brings both the promise and fear of...

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Jericho

as Ellen Jericho
First aired: 2005-10-16

Jericho is an ITV British crime drama series which was transmitted in 2005. It was created and...

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Time for Murder

as Evelyn Smith
First aired: 1985-11-09

Written by six of Britain's finest writers (including Fay Weldon, Antonia Fraser, and Michael...

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Love Soup

as Penny's Mother (voice)
First aired: 2005-09-27

Bittersweet comedy drama about the eternal search for the perfect partner.

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Watching

as Aunt Peggy
First aired: 1987-07-05

A British television sitcom set on Merseyside that revolves around the relationship between...

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Kind of Living

as uncredited
First aired: 1988-02-19

Trevor Beasley (Richard Griffiths), a schoolteacher, has his head stuck firmly in the past,...

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Takin' Over the Asylum

as Grandma
First aired: 1994-09-27

A salesman starts to run a hospital radio station inside a facility for people with mental heath...

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Shine on Harvey Moon

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-01-08

Shine on Harvey Moon! is a British comedy-drama series made by Central Television for ITV from 8...

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Shackleton

as Janet Stancombe Wills
First aired: 2002-01-02

The true story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his...

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Fox

as Connie Fox
First aired: 1980-03-10

Fox is a British television drama series produced by Euston Films and Thames Television for the...

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Martin Chuzzlewit

as Mrs. Gamp
First aired: 1994-11-07

When old Martin Chuzzlewit disinherits his grandson, he falls prey to a host of rapacious relatives.

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Young Charlie Chaplin

as Madge Kendal
First aired: 1989-01-25

The challenging and spirited early life of cinema's first great comedic artist, Charlie Chaplin,...

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Class Act

as Harriet Mainwaring
First aired: 1994-04-07

Class Act was a short-lived British comedy drama series produced in the early to mid-1990s by...

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The Glittering Prizes

as Lady Frances Davidson
First aired: 1976-01-21

The Glittering Prizes is a British television drama about the changing lives of a group of...

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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

as May
First aired: 1990-01-10

Seven-year-old Jess is removed from her peculiar Pentecostal home and sent to school.

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Objects of Affection

as Cora
First aired: 1982-11-12

A series of plays written by Alan Bennett.

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Anglo Saxon Attitudes

as Inge Middleton
First aired: 1992-05-12

Gerald Middleton, is a taciturn and methodical man, a creature of habit who likes to have his...

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The Royal

as Dolly Smith
First aired: 2003-01-19

Follows 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 Witch
First aired: 1987-11-16

Simon is a very sensible young schoolboy, who has a friend who is a real witch. She is very...

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