Elizabeth Spriggs

1929-09-18

•Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK

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).

Known For Movies

7.0

Sakharov

1984-06-20

Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil ri...

0.0

The Dybbuk

1980-02-24

A young bride is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated...

0.0

Survival of the Fittest

1990-10-21

Molly Cowper is a wilful 80-year-old widow who firmly believes the world is there for her convenienc...

5.5

The Secret Agent

1996-11-08

In 1880s London, pornographic bookseller Verloc is a double agent for the Russian government, provid...

1.5

For My Baby

2000-10-19

A young Austrian comedian struggles with the nightmare of his past and a dead sister who refuses to ...

5.0

3 Into 2 Won't Go

1969-07-02

Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a young...

8.5

Julius Caesar

1979-02-11

The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic conseq...

7.1

The Barber of Siberia

1998-11-11

Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, expe...

Known For TV Shows

8.1

Jeeves and Wooster

1990-04-22

Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Je...

6.7

Bergerac

1981-10-18

Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. W...

7.9

Doctor Who

1963-11-23

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the ...

8.0

Tales from the Crypt

1989-06-10

Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun ba...

6.7

Tales of the Unexpected

1979-03-24

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a t...

6.5

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

1992-03-04

At the dawn of the 20th century, Indiana Jones discovered the world. From globetrotting family exped...

7.1

Heartbeat

1992-04-10

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popula...

8.2

Takin' Over the Asylum

1994-09-27

A salesman starts to run a hospital radio station inside a facility for people with mental heath nee...

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