Elizabeth Spriggs

Born: 1929-09-18 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK

Died: 2008-07-02

Known For: Acting

Biography

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).

Filmography

2009

Is Anybody There? as Prudence

2007

James Ellis: An Actor's Life as Herself

2005

Love Soup as Penny's Mother (voice)
Jericho as Ellen Jericho

2004

The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

2003

The Royal as Dolly Smith

2002

Shackleton as Janet Stancombe Wills
Nice Guy Eddie as Vera McMullen

2001

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as The Fat Lady

2000

1999

Wives and Daughters as Mrs Goodenough
Alice in Wonderland as Duchess
A Christmas Carol as Mrs. Riggs
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service as Schultz

1998

The Barber of Siberia as Perepiolkina

1997

Midsomer Murders as Iris Rainbird
Paradise Road as Mrs. Roberts

1996

The Secret Agent as Winnie's Mother
The Snow Queen's Revenge as Brenda (voice)

1995

Sense and Sensibility as Mrs. Jennings

1994

Middlemarch as Mrs. Cadwallader
Takin' Over the Asylum as Grandma
Martin Chuzzlewit as Mrs Gamp
A Pinch of Snuff as Annabelle Andover

1993

The Hour of the Pig as Madame Langlois
The Last Vampyre as Eileen Mason

1992

Heartbeat as Rene Kirby
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as Schultz
Anglo Saxon Attitudes as Inge Middleton
The Old Devils as Dorothy Morgan

1991

Performance as Mistress Quickly
Soldier Soldier as Mrs. Henwood
Impromptu as Baroness Laginsky

1990

Jeeves and Wooster as Aunt Agatha
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit as May
Survival of the Fittest as Eileen Blackett

1989

Agatha Christie's Poirot as Mrs. Leadbetter
Tales from the Crypt as Mrs. Trask
Screen One as Eileen Blackett
Young Charlie Chaplin as Madge Kendal

1987

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries as Eva Peterlee
Watching as Aunty Peggy
Simon and the Witch as The Witch
The Devil's Disciple as Mrs. Dudgeon
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers as Tabby

1986

Casualty as Barbara Thomas
Lovejoy as Daphne Shotley

1985

Theatre Night as Mrs. Dudgeon
Time for Murder as Evelyn Smith
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas as Evelyn Smith
Parker as Mrs. Epps

1984

Sherlock Holmes as Mrs Mason
The Cold Room as Frau Hoffman
Sakharov as Nobel Presenter

1983

Those Glory Glory Days as School Mistress

1982

Shine on Harvey Moon as Nan
Objects of Affection as Cora
Our Winnie as Cora
Intensive Care as Alice Duckworth
The Merry Wives of Windsor as Mistress Quickly
Spider's Web as Mildred Peake
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman as Miss Markland
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer as Mrs. Palmer

1981

Bergerac as Mary Lou Costain
Lady Chatterley's Lover as Lady Eva
The Cause as Olive James
The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe as Mrs Radcliffe
Fothergill as Middle Class Woman

1980

Cribb as Mrs Gurney
Fox as Connie Fox
Fox as Connie Fox
Richard's Things as Mrs. Sells
The Enigma as Miss Parsons
The Dybbuk as Frade

1979

Tales of the Unexpected as Aunt May
Afternoon Off as Miss Beckinsale
Julius Caesar as Calphurnia

1974

Playhouse as Miss Parsons
Leeds United! as Maggie

1973

Second City Firsts as Zena Pool
Black and Blue as Eleanor Hawkes
Rust as Eleanor Hawkes

1970

Play for Today as Sonia Marsden

1969

3 Into 2 Won't Go as Marcia

1968

The Expert as Mrs. Kyneston
Work Is a 4-Letter Word as Mrs Murray
All's Well That Ends Well as Widow

1965

BBC Play of the Month as Maud Lowder

1964

Theatre 625

1963

Doctor Who as Maddy
Festival as Lampito

1956

Armchair Theatre ... (Writer)