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Elizabeth Spriggs

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).

Known For: Acting

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

Died: 2008-07-02

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1968	All's Well That Ends Well	Widow	0
2	1968	Work Is a 4-Letter Word	Mrs Murray	30
3	1969	3 Into 2 Won't Go	Marcia	50
4	1973	Rust	Eleanor Hawkes	0
5	1974	Leeds United!	Maggie	0
6	1976	Love Letters on Blue Paper	Sonia Marsden	0
7	1977	Able's Will	Sarah	0
8	1979	Afternoon Off	Miss Beckinsale	0
9	1979	Julius Caesar	Calphurnia	85
10	1980	The Enigma	Miss Parsons	0
11	1980	The Dybbuk	Frade	0
12	1980	Fox	Connie Fox	10
13	1980	Richard's Things	Mrs. Sells	50
14	1981	Fothergill	Middle Class Woman	0
15	1981	The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe	Mrs Radcliffe	0
16	1981	The Cause	Olive James	0
17	1981	Lady Chatterley's Lover	Lady Eva	54
18	1982	An Unsuitable Job for a Woman	Miss Markland	52
19	1982	The Haunting of Cassie Palmer	Mrs. Palmer	0
20	1982	Intensive Care	Alice Duckworth	0
21	1982	Our Winnie	Cora	0
22	1982	Spider's Web	Mildred Peake	74
23	1982	The Merry Wives of Windsor	Mistress Quickly	80
24	1983	Those Glory Glory Days	School Mistress	46
25	1984	The Cold Room	Frau Hoffman	48
26	1984	Sakharov	Nobel Presenter	70
27	1985	Parker	Mrs. Epps	53
28	1985	The Thirteenth Day of Christmas	Evelyn Smith	0
29	1987	The Devil's Disciple	Mrs. Dudgeon	60
30	1987	Doctor Who: Paradise Towers	Tabby	65
31	1990	Survival of the Fittest	Eileen Blackett	0
32	1991	Impromptu	Baroness Laginsky	61
33	1992	The Old Devils	Dorothy Morgan	0
34	1993	The Last Vampyre	Eileen Mason	68
35	1993	The Hour of the Pig	Madame Langlois	62
36	1994	A Pinch of Snuff	Annabelle Andover	0
37	1995	Sense and Sensibility	Mrs. Jennings	74
38	1996	The Snow Queen's Revenge	Brenda (voice)	54
39	1996	The Secret Agent	Winnie's Mother	55
40	1997	Paradise Road	Mrs. Roberts	64
41	1998	The Barber of Siberia	Perepiolkina	71
42	1999	Alice in Wonderland	Duchess	62
43	1999	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service	Schultz	48
44	1999	A Christmas Carol	Mrs Riggs	69
45	2000	For My Baby	Olga Jenikova	15
46	2000	The Sleeper	Cath	40
47	2001	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	The Fat Lady	79
48	2004	The Queen of Sheba's Pearls		56
49	2007	James Ellis: An Actor's Life	Herself	0
50	2009	Is Anybody There?	Prudence	62

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1963	Festival	Lampito	0
2	1963	Doctor Who	Maddy	79
3	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Maud Lowder	50
4	1968	The Expert	Mrs. Kyneston	100
5	1970	Play for Today	Sonia Marsden	63
6	1970	Play for Today	Olive James	63
7	1970	Play for Today	Maggie	63
8	1970	Play for Today	Alice Duckworth	63
9	1973	Black and Blue		60
10	1974	Playhouse	Miss Parsons	70
11	1974	Playhouse	Middle-Class Woman	70
12	1974	Playhouse	Mrs. Radcliffe	70
13	1975	Prometheus: The Life of Balzac		0
14	1976	The Glittering Prizes	Lady Frances Davidson	60
15	1976	Victorian Scandals		0
16	1977	BBC2 Play of the Week	Sarah	70
17	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Calphurnia	60
18	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Mistress Quickly	60
19	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Aunt May	67
20	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Martha	67
21	1980	Fox	Connie Fox	57
22	1981	Bergerac	Mary Lou Costain	67
23	1982	Shine on Harvey Moon	Nan	76
24	1982	Objects of Affection	Cora	70
25	1984	Sherlock Holmes	Mrs Mason	81
26	1985	Time for Murder	Evelyn Smith	40
27	1986	Lovejoy	Daphne Shotley	73
28	1986	Casualty	Barbara Thomas	61
29	1987	Watching	Aunty Peggy	78
30	1987	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Eva Peterlee	62
31	1987	Simon and the Witch	The Witch	50
32	1988	Kind of Living		50
33	1989	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Mrs. Leadbetter	82
34	1989	Young Charlie Chaplin	Madge Kendal	0
35	1989	Tales from the Crypt	Mrs. Trask	80
36	1990	Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit	May	68
37	1990	Jeeves and Wooster	Aunt Agatha	81
38	1991	Soldier Soldier	Mrs. Henwood	66
39	1991	Performance	Mistress Quickly	60
40	1992	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles	Schultz	65
41	1992	Heartbeat	Rene Kirby	71
42	1992	Heartbeat	Mrs. Andrews	71
43	1992	Anglo Saxon Attitudes	Inge Middleton	50
44	1994	Class Act	Harriet Mainwaring	0
45	1994	Middlemarch	Mrs. Cadwallader	78
46	1994	Takin' Over the Asylum	Grandma	82
47	1994	Martin Chuzzlewit	Mrs. Gamp	75
48	1997	Midsomer Murders	Iris Rainbird	75
49	1997	Midsomer Murders	Ursula Gooding	75
50	1999	Wives and Daughters	Mrs. Goodenough	73
51	2000	Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)		61
52	2002	Shackleton	Janet Stancombe Wills	71
53	2002	Nice Guy Eddie	Vera McMullen	0
54	2003	The Royal	Dolly Smith	76
55	2005	Love Soup	Penny's Mother (voice)	80
56	2005	Jericho	Ellen Jericho	65