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	57
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	33
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	69
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 Secret Agent	Winnie's Mother	53
39	1997	Paradise Road	Mrs. Roberts	64
40	1998	The Barber of Siberia	Perepiolkina	71
41	1999	Alice in Wonderland	Duchess	63
42	1999	A Christmas Carol	Mrs Riggs	69
43	2000	For My Baby	Olga Jenikova	20
44	2000	The Sleeper	Cath	40
45	2001	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	The Fat Lady	79
46	2002	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service	Schultz	48
47	2004	The Queen of Sheba's Pearls		56
48	2007	James Ellis: An Actor's Life	Herself	0
49	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	95
5	1970	Play for Today	Sonia Marsden	61
6	1970	Play for Today	Olive James	61
7	1970	Play for Today	Maggie	61
8	1970	Play for Today	Alice Duckworth	61
9	1973	Black and Blue		60
10	1975	Prometheus: The Life of Balzac		0
11	1976	The Glittering Prizes	Lady Frances Davidson	60
12	1976	Victorian Scandals		0
13	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare		52
14	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Aunt May	67
15	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Martha	67
16	1980	Fox	Connie Fox	57
17	1981	Bergerac	Mary Lou Costain	65
18	1982	Shine on Harvey Moon		78
19	1982	Objects of Affection	Cora	70
20	1984	Sherlock Holmes	Mrs Mason	81
21	1985	Time for Murder	Evelyn Smith	40
22	1986	Lovejoy	Daphne Shotley	73
23	1986	Casualty	Barbara Thomas	60
24	1987	Watching	Aunt Peggy	78
25	1987	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Eva Peterlee	62
26	1987	Simon and the Witch	The Witch	50
27	1988	Kind of Living		50
28	1989	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Mrs. Leadbetter	82
29	1989	Young Charlie Chaplin	Madge Kendal	0
30	1989	Tales from the Crypt	Mrs. Trask	80
31	1990	Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit	May	67
32	1990	Jeeves and Wooster	Aunt Agatha	80
33	1991	Soldier Soldier	Mrs. Henwood	64
34	1992	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles	Schultz	65
35	1992	Heartbeat	Rene Kirby	70
36	1992	Heartbeat	Mrs. Andrews	70
37	1992	Anglo Saxon Attitudes	Inge Middleton	50
38	1994	Class Act	Harriet Mainwaring	0
39	1994	Middlemarch	Mrs. Cadwallader	78
40	1994	Takin' Over the Asylum	Grandma	82
41	1994	Martin Chuzzlewit	Mrs. Gamp	75
42	1997	Midsomer Murders	Iris Rainbird	75
43	1997	Midsomer Murders	Ursula Gooding	75
44	1999	Wives and Daughters	Mrs. Goodenough	73
45	2000	Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)		60
46	2002	Shackleton	Janet Stancombe Wills	70
47	2002	Nice Guy Eddie	Vera McMullen	0
48	2003	The Royal	Dolly Smith	76
49	2005	Love Soup	Penny's Mother (voice)	78
50	2005	Jericho	Ellen Jericho	63