Elisabeth Sladen
Born: 1946-02-01 in Liverpool, England, UK
Died: 2011-04-19
Known For: Acting
Biography
Elisabeth Claira Heath Sladen (1 February 1946 - 19 April 2011) was an English actress best known for her role as Sarah Jane Smith in the British television series Doctor Who. She was a regular cast member from 1973 to 1976, alongside both Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, and reprised the role many times in subsequent decades, both on Doctor Who and its spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Filmography
2025
- Worlds Within: The Life of Ian Marter as Self (archive footage)
2024
- Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death as Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
- Tales of the Tardis as Sarah Jane Smith
- Talking Doctor Who as Self / Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage)
2020
- Our Sarah Jane: The Life of Elisabeth Sladen as Self (archive footage)
2013
- Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS as Sarah-Jane Smith (archive footage)
2011
- My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elisabeth Sladen as Self (archive footage)
2010
- The National Television Awards Backstage Live
- Sarah Jane's Alien Files as Sarah Jane Smith
- Doctor Who: The End of Time as Sarah Jane Smith
- Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2 as Sara Jane Smith (archive footage)
2009
- Doctor Who Greatest Moments as Self
2008
- The Ties That Bind Us as Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage)
- Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
- Five Doctors, One Studio
- The K-9 Files
2007
- The Sarah Jane Adventures as Sarah Jane Smith
- Hitler: The Comedy Years as Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)
- David Tennant's Video Diary as Self
- The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane as Sarah Jane Smith
- A Darker Side: The Making of Planet of Evil
- Are Friends Electric?
2006
2005
- Doctor Who as Sarah Jane Smith
- Doctor Who Confidential
2004
2002
2000
1999
- Adventures in Space and Time as Herself
1997
1995
- The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
- Downtime as Sarah Jane Smith
1993
- Peak Practice as Dr. Pat Hewland
- GMTV as Self
- Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time as Sarah Jane Smith
- 30 Years in the TARDIS as Herself
1992
- Summer Session as Self
1985
- Dempsey and Makepeace as Mrs. Barrett
1984
- The Bill as Mrs Preston
- Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks as Sarah-Jane Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
- Doctor Who: The Five Doctors as Sarah Jane Smith
1982
- Gulliver in Lilliput as Lady Flimnap
1981
- K-9 and Company as Sarah Jane Smith
- Doctor Who: Logopolis as Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage)
- K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend as Sarah Jane Smith
1980
- Silver Dream Racer as Bank Secretary
- Name for the Day as Jo
1979
- Take My Wife as Josie Hall
1978
- Send in the Girls as Beverley
- Betzi as Countess Bertrand
1976
- Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear as Sarah Jane Smith
- Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora as Sarah Jane Smith
- Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius as Sarah Jane Smith
- Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom as Sarah Jane Smith
1975
- Doctor Who: Robot as Sarah Jane Smith
- Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks as Sarah Jane Smith
- Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars as Sarah Jane Smith
- Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment as Sarah Jane Smith
- Doctor Who: The Android Invasion as Sarah Jane Smith
- Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons as Sarah Jane Smith
- Doctor Who: Planet of Evil as Sarah Jane Smith
- Doctor Who: The Ark in Space as Sarah Jane Smith
- Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen as Sarah Jane Smith
1974
- Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon as Sarah Jane Smith
- Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders as Sarah Jane Smith
- Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks as Sarah Jane Smith
- Doctor Who: The Time Warrior as Sarah Jane Smith
- Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs as Sarah Jane Smith
1970
- Play for Today as Jo
- Doomwatch as Sarah Collins
1965
- Public Eye as Policewoman
- Ferry Cross the Mersey
1963
- Doctor Who as Sarah Jane Smith
1962
- Z-Cars as Valerie Hollingsworth
1960
- Coronation Street as Anita Reynolds