Elizabeth Spriggs
Acting • Born 1929-09-18 – Died 2008-07-02
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
104 credits
Sakharov
Movie • 1984
Nobel Presenter
The Dybbuk
Movie • 1980
Frade
Survival of the Fittest
Movie • 1990
Eileen Blackett
The Secret Agent
Movie • 1996
Winnie's Mother
For My Baby
Movie • 2000
Olga Jenikova
3 Into 2 Won't Go
Movie • 1969
Marcia
Julius Caesar
Movie • 1979
Calphurnia
The Barber of Siberia
Movie • 1998
Perepiolkina
Sense and Sensibility
Movie • 1995
Mrs. Jennings
Leeds United!
Movie • 1974
Maggie
The Last Vampyre
Movie • 1993
Eileen Mason
Intensive Care
Movie • 1982
Alice Duckworth
Afternoon Off
Movie • 1979
Miss Beckinsale
Alice in Wonderland
Movie • 1999
Duchess
Paradise Road
Movie • 1997
Mrs. Roberts
Richard's Things
Movie • 1980
Mrs. Sells
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
Movie • 2004
Rust
Movie • 1973
Eleanor Hawkes
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Movie • 1981
Lady Eva
All's Well That Ends Well
Movie • 1968
Widow
Fox
Movie • 1980
Connie Fox
Is Anybody There?
Movie • 2009
Prudence
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Movie • 2001
The Fat Lady
Those Glory Glory Days
Movie • 1983
School Mistress
Spider's Web
Movie • 1982
Mildred Peake
A Christmas Carol
Movie • 1999
Mrs. Riggs
Parker
Movie • 1985
Mrs. Epps
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
Movie • 1985
Evelyn Smith
Impromptu
Movie • 1991
Baroness Laginsky
The Hour of the Pig
Movie • 1993
Madame Langlois
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Movie • 1968
Mrs Murray
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Movie • 1982
Miss Markland
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
Movie • 1999
Schultz
A Pinch of Snuff
Movie • 1994
Annabelle Andover
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Movie • 1982
Mistress Quickly
The Devil's Disciple
Movie • 1987
Mrs. Dudgeon
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
Movie • 2007
Herself
The Sleeper
Movie • 2000
Cath
Love Letters on Blue Paper
Movie • 1976
Sonia Marsden
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
Movie • 1982
Mrs. Palmer
The Cause
Movie • 1981
Olive James
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
Movie • 1987
Tabby
The Cold Room
Movie • 1984
Frau Hoffman
The Old Devils
Movie • 1992
Dorothy Morgan
Our Winnie
Movie • 1982
Cora
The Enigma
Movie • 1980
Miss Parsons
Fothergill
Movie • 1981
Middle Class Woman
The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
Movie • 1981
Mrs Radcliffe
Able's Will
Movie • 1977
Sarah
The Snow Queen's Revenge
Movie • 1996
Brenda (voice)
Jeeves and Wooster
TV • 1990
Aunt Agatha
Bergerac
TV • 1981
Mary Lou Costain
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Maddy
Tales from the Crypt
TV • 1989
Mrs. Trask
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Aunt May
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
TV • 1992
Schultz
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Rene Kirby
Takin' Over the Asylum
TV • 1994
Grandma
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
TV • 2000
Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1984
Mrs Mason
Lovejoy
TV • 1986
Daphne Shotley
Fox
TV • 1980
Connie Fox
Jericho
TV • 2005
Ellen Jericho
Shine on Harvey Moon
TV • 1982
Nan
The Expert
TV • 1968
Mrs. Kyneston
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Sonia Marsden
Festival
TV • 1963
Lampito
Prometheus: The Life of Balzac
TV • 1975
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Mrs. Leadbetter
Nice Guy Eddie
TV • 2002
Vera McMullen
Young Charlie Chaplin
TV • 1989
Madge Kendal
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
TV • 1992
Inge Middleton
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
TV • 1987
Eva Peterlee
Love Soup
TV • 2005
Penny's Mother (voice)
The Royal
TV • 2003
Dolly Smith
Simon and the Witch
TV • 1987
The Witch
Casualty
TV • 1986
Barbara Thomas
Middlemarch
TV • 1994
Mrs. Cadwallader
Wives and Daughters
TV • 1999
Mrs. Goodenough
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
TV • 1990
May
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Iris Rainbird
Time for Murder
TV • 1985
Evelyn Smith
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Mrs. Andrews
Soldier Soldier
TV • 1991
Mrs. Henwood
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Ursula Gooding
Objects of Affection
TV • 1982
Cora
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Olive James
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Alice Duckworth
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Maggie
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Martha
Watching
TV • 1987
Aunty Peggy
Shackleton
TV • 2002
Janet Stancombe Wills
Performance
TV • 1991
Mistress Quickly
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Miss Parsons
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Middle-Class Woman
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Mrs. Radcliffe
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Maud Lowder
BBC2 Play of the Week
TV • 1977
Sarah
Black and Blue
TV • 1973
Eleanor Hawkes
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Theatre Night
TV • 1985
Mrs. Dudgeon
Young Charlie Chaplin
TV • 1989
Victorian Scandals
TV • 1976
Hannah Cullwick
Martin Chuzzlewit
TV • 1994
Mrs Gamp