Elisabeth Sladen
Acting • Born 1946-02-01 – Died 2011-04-19
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
83 credits
K9 Unleashed
Movie • 2000
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
Movie • 1975
Sarah Jane Smith
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Movie • 2007
Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
Movie • 1993
Sarah Jane Smith
Who is Tom Baker? Unauthorised
Movie • 1997
Talking Doctor Who
Movie • 2023
Self / Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom
Movie • 1976
Sarah Jane Smith
The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
Movie • 1995
Downtime
Movie • 1995
Sarah Jane Smith
Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS
Movie • 2013
Sarah-Jane Smith (archive footage)
The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years
Movie • 2017
Doctor Who: The Ark in Space
Movie • 1975
Sarah Jane Smith
David Tennant's Video Diary
Movie • 2007
Self
The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane
Movie • 2007
Sarah Jane Smith
Betzi
Movie • 1978
Countess Bertrand
Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars
Movie • 1975
Sarah Jane Smith
Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death
Movie • 2024
Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)
Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen
Movie • 1975
Sarah Jane Smith
Doctor Who: Robot
Movie • 1975
Sarah Jane Smith
Chronotrip
Movie • 2002
Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons
Movie • 1975
Sarah Jane Smith
Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius
Movie • 1976
Sarah Jane Smith
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Movie • 1974
Sarah Jane Smith
Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon
Movie • 1974
Sarah Jane Smith
Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks
Movie • 1974
Sarah Jane Smith
Doctor Who: The Time Warrior
Movie • 1974
Sarah Jane Smith
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders
Movie • 1974
Sarah Jane Smith
Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment
Movie • 1975
Sarah Jane Smith
Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora
Movie • 1976
Sarah Jane Smith
Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks
Movie • 1975
Sarah Jane Smith
Doctor Who: Planet of Evil
Movie • 1975
Sarah Jane Smith
Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear
Movie • 1976
Sarah Jane Smith
Silver Dream Racer
Movie • 1980
Bank Secretary
K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend
Movie • 1981
Sarah Jane Smith
Adventures in Space and Time
Movie • 1999
Herself
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
Movie • 1983
Sarah Jane Smith
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
Movie • 2008
Serial Thrillers
Movie • 2004
Built for War: The Sontaran Story
Movie • 2006
The Story of Doctor Who
Movie • 2003
Ferry Cross the Mersey
Movie • 1965
Our Sarah Jane: The Life of Elisabeth Sladen
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Name for the Day
Movie • 1980
Jo
Doctor Who: Logopolis
Movie • 1981
Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage)
Summer Session
Movie • 1992
Self
30 Years in the TARDIS
Movie • 1993
Herself
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
Movie • 2010
Sara Jane Smith (archive footage)
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Movie • 1984
Sarah-Jane Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Darker Side: The Making of Planet of Evil
Movie • 2007
The Ties That Bind Us
Movie • 2008
Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage)
Are Friends Electric?
Movie • 2007
The K-9 Files
Movie • 2008
Doctor Who: Downtime
Movie • 2025
Sarah-Jane Smith
Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who
Movie • 2006
The Sarah Jane Adventures: From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love
Movie • 2009
Sarah Jane Smith
Worlds Within: The Life of Ian Marter
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
Five Doctors, One Studio
Movie • 2008
My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elisabeth Sladen
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The End of Time
Movie • 2010
Sarah Jane Smith
The Sarah Jane Adventures
TV • 2007
Sarah Jane Smith
Doctor Who Confidential
TV • 2005
K-9 and Company
TV • 1981
Sarah Jane Smith
The Bill
TV • 1984
Mrs Preston
Dempsey and Makepeace
TV • 1985
Mrs. Barrett
TMi
TV • 2006
Doomwatch
TV • 1970
Sarah Collins
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
TV • 1973
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Jo
Take My Wife
TV • 1979
Josie Hall
GMTV
TV • 1993
Self
The National Television Awards Backstage Live
TV • 2010
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Sarah Jane Smith
Totally Doctor Who
TV • 2006
Self
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Sarah Jane Smith
Peak Practice
TV • 1993
Dr. Pat Hewland
Public Eye
TV • 1965
Policewoman
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
TV • 2009
Self
Tales of the Tardis
TV • 2023
Sarah Jane Smith
Coronation Street
TV • 1960
Anita Reynolds
Gulliver in Lilliput
TV • 1982
Lady Flimnap
Z-Cars
TV • 1962
Valerie Hollingsworth
Z-Cars
TV • 1962
Rose Milton
Sarah Jane's Alien Files
TV • 2010
Sarah Jane Smith