Elizabeth Spriggs
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).
Born: September 18, 1929
Place of Birth: Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
Known For
The Expert
The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a pathologist working for the Home Office and was essentially a police procedural drama, with Hardy bringing his forensic knowledge to solve various cases. The Expert was created and produced by Gerard Glaister. The series was also one of the first BBC dramas to be made in colour, and throughout its four series had numerous high quality guest appearances by actors such as John Carson, Peter Copley, Rachel Kempson, Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Barkworth, Jean Marsh, Ray Brooks, George Sewell, Anthony Valentine, Bernard Lee, Lee Montague, Geoffrey Bayldon, Mike Pratt, Edward Fox, André Morell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Stock, Philip Madoc and Warren Clarke.
Julius Caesar
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.
Takin' Over the Asylum
A salesman starts to run a hospital radio station inside a facility for people with mental heath needs.
Love Soup
Bittersweet comedy drama about the eternal search for the perfect partner.
Agatha Christie's Poirot
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.
Jeeves and Wooster
Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page. When they put their heads together and compare missives, they plan a practical joke or two to teach the knight a lesson. But Mistress Ford's husband is a very jealous man and is pumping Falstaff for information of the affair. Meanwhile the Pages' daughter Anne is beseiged by suitors.
Martin Chuzzlewit
When old Martin Chuzzlewit disinherits his grandson, he falls prey to a host of rapacious relatives.
Tales from the Crypt
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
Filmography
as Prudence
as Herself
as Ellen Jericho
as Penny's Mother (voice)
as Dolly Smith
as Janet Stancombe Wills
as The Fat Lady
as Cath
as Olga Jenikova
as Mrs. Riggs
as Mrs. Goodenough
as Duchess
as Perepiolkina
as Iris Rainbird
as Ursula Gooding
as Mrs. Roberts
as Winnie's Mother
as Brenda (voice)
as Mrs. Jennings
as Mrs. Gamp
as Grandma
as Annabelle Andover
as Mrs. Cadwallader
as Madame Langlois
as Eileen Mason
as Inge Middleton
as Rene Kirby
as Mrs. Andrews
as Dorothy Morgan
as Schultz
as Mistress Quickly
as Mrs. Henwood
as Baroness Laginsky
as Eileen Blackett
as Aunt Agatha
as Mrs. Trask
as Madge Kendal
as Mrs. Leadbetter
as The Witch
as Tabby
as Eva Peterlee
as Aunty Peggy
as Mrs. Dudgeon
as Barbara Thomas
as Daphne Shotley
as Evelyn Smith
as Mrs. Epps
as Nobel Presenter
as Mrs Mason
as Frau Hoffman
as School Mistress
as Mistress Quickly
as Mildred Peake
as Cora
as Cora
as Alice Duckworth
as Mrs. Palmer
as Miss Markland
as Nan
as Mary Lou Costain
as Lady Eva
as Olive James
as Mrs Radcliffe
as Middle Class Woman
as Mrs. Sells
as Connie Fox
as Frade
as Miss Parsons
as Aunt May
as Martha
as Calphurnia
as Miss Beckinsale
as Sarah
as Sarah
as Sonia Marsden
as Lady Frances Davidson
as Maggie
as Miss Parsons
as Middle-Class Woman
as Mrs. Radcliffe
as Sonia Marsden
as Olive James
as Maggie
as Alice Duckworth
as Marcia
as Mrs Murray
as Mrs. Kyneston
as Maud Lowder
as Maddy