
Elizabeth Spriggs
Known for: Acting
Born: September 18, 1929
Died: July 2, 2008
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 film…
Known for

Our Winnie
1982

The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
1981

Leeds United!
1974
Rust
1973
Fox
1980
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
1985

The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982

The Devil's Disciple
1987

Able's Will
1977

The Sleeper
2000

Love Letters on Blue Paper
1976

The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
1982

Survival of the Fittest
1990

For My Baby
2000

Parker
1985

Richard's Things
1980

Lady Chatterley's Lover
1981

Spider's Web
1982

Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
1987

The Cold Room
1984

Fothergill
1981

Julius Caesar
1979

The Last Vampyre
1993

Intensive Care
1982

Those Glory Glory Days
1983

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
1982

3 Into 2 Won't Go
1969

Sense and Sensibility
1995

Work Is a 4-Letter Word
1968

A Pinch of Snuff
1994

The Cause
1981

The Enigma
1980

Is Anybody There?
2009

The Dybbuk
1980

The Secret Agent
1996

Paradise Road
1997

The Old Devils
1992

The Snow Queen's Revenge
1996

The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
2004

Afternoon Off
1979

A Christmas Carol
1999
All's Well That Ends Well
1968

Impromptu
1991

The Hour of the Pig
1993

Alice in Wonderland
1999

The Barber of Siberia
1998

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999

James Ellis: An Actor's Life
2007

Sakharov
1984

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001

Jeeves and Wooster
1990

Bergerac
1981

Doctor Who
1963

Tales from the Crypt
1989

Tales of the Unexpected
1979

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992

Heartbeat
1992

Takin' Over the Asylum
1994
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000

Sherlock Holmes
1984

Lovejoy
1986

Fox
1980

Jericho
2005

Shine on Harvey Moon
1982

The Expert
1968

Play for Today
1970
Festival
1963
Prometheus: The Life of Balzac
1975

Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Nice Guy Eddie
2002

Young Charlie Chaplin
1989

Anglo Saxon Attitudes
1992

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987

Love Soup
2005

The Royal
2003

Simon and the Witch
1987

Casualty
1986

Middlemarch
1994

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
1990

Midsomer Murders
1997

Soldier Soldier
1991

Objects of Affection
1982

Watching
1987

Shackleton
2002

Performance
1991

Playhouse
1974

BBC Play of the Month
1965

BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
Black and Blue
1973

Theatre 625
1964

Theatre Night
1985

Victorian Scandals
1976

Martin Chuzzlewit
1994

Cribb
1980

Time for Murder
1985

Wives and Daughters
1999

Screen One
1989
Second City Firsts
1973

The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978