Elizabeth Spriggs

Elizabeth Spriggs

Born: September 18, 1929
Died: July 2, 2008
in Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
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).

Movies for Elizabeth Spriggs...

Is Anybody There?
Title: Is Anybody There?
Character: Prudence
Released: April 17, 2009
Type: Movie
A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
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James Ellis: An Actor's Life
Title: James Ellis: An Actor's Life
Character: Herself
Released: July 2, 2007
Type: Movie
Documentary tracing the life of James Ellis, one of Northern Ireland’s best loved actors.
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Title: Jericho
Character: Ellen Jericho
Released: October 16, 2005
Type: TV
Jericho is an ITV British crime drama series which was transmitted in 2005. It was created and written by Stewart Harcourt and starred Robert Lindsay as Detective Inspector Michael Jericho, who is loved by the public but who is embarrassed by his status as a hero. The series was set in London in 1958.
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Title: Love Soup
Character: Penny's Mother (voice)
Released: September 27, 2005
Type: TV
Bittersweet comedy drama about the eternal search for the perfect partner.
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Title: The Royal
Character: Dolly Smith
Released: January 19, 2003
Type: TV
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
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Title: Nice Guy Eddie
Character: Vera McMullen
Released: June 16, 2002
Type: TV
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Title: Shackleton
Character: Janet Stancombe Wills
Released: January 2, 2002
Type: TV
The true story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Title: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Character: The Fat Lady
Released: November 16, 2001
Type: Movie
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths—and about the villain who's to blame.
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The Sleeper
Title: The Sleeper
Character: Cath
Released: December 26, 2000
Type: Movie
Violet Moon wants to be in control of the circumstances and people in her life. Particularly her son and daughter-in-law who she discovers are considering selling the farm where she has known some of the happiest times of her life. Violet's control is not only threatened by their decision, but also by the sudden reappearance of someone from her past whom she meets at a local spiritualists club. Someone who has the potential to resurrect a long buried secret as well expose her current plot to put a stop to the sale of the farm. When Violet takes the opportunity to silence this person, she doesn't consider that enemies have friends...
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For My Baby
Title: For My Baby
Released: October 19, 2000
Type: Movie
A young Austrian comedian struggles with the nightmare of his past and a dead sister who refuses to die by laying claim to his soul.
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Title: Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Released: March 18, 2000
Type: TV
A modern day version of the 1969 detective series about Private Investigator Jeff Randall, who is aided in cases by the ghost of his deceased partner Marty Hopkirk.
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A Christmas Carol
Title: A Christmas Carol
Character: Mrs Riggs
Released: December 5, 1999
Type: Movie
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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Title: Wives and Daughters
Character: Mrs. Goodenough
Released: November 28, 1999
Type: TV
Wives and Daughters is a 1999 four part BBC serial adapted from the novel Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story by Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell. It focuses on Molly Gibson (Justine Waddell), the daughter of the town doctor, and the changes that occur in her life after her widowed father chooses to remarry. The union brings into her once-quiet life an ever-proper stepmother (Francesca Annis) and flirtatious stepsister, Cynthia (Keeley Hawes), while a friendship with the local squire brings about an unexpected romance.
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
Title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
Character: Schultz
Released: November 21, 1999
Type: Movie
In the thirteenth film in the series, in March 1917, Indiana Jones, now a captain in the French army, is assigned to escort two Austrian princes to meet with Emperor Karl I and convince him to broker a peace deal with France and Britain at the expense of Austria's alliance with Germany. Two months later, at the French Embassy in Petrograd, Indy must decide between his loyalty to his friends and his work in French Intelligence when he is pressed to discover details of a possible Bolshevik revolution in Russia which would cripple the French war effort.
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Alice in Wonderland
Title: Alice in Wonderland
Character: Duchess
Released: February 28, 1999
Type: Movie
Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets characters like the delightful Cheshire Cat, the clumsy White Knight, a rude caterpillar, and the hot-tempered Queen of Hearts and can grow ten feet tall or shrink to three inches. But will she ever be able to return home?
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The Barber of Siberia
Title: The Barber of Siberia
Character: Perepiolkina
Released: November 11, 1998
Type: Movie
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Iris Rainbird
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Ursula Gooding
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Paradise Road
Title: Paradise Road
Character: Mrs. Roberts
Released: February 11, 1997
Type: Movie
A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.
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The Secret Agent
Title: The Secret Agent
Character: Winnie's Mother
Released: November 8, 1996
Type: Movie
In 1880s London, pornographic bookseller Verloc is a double agent for the Russian government, providing information to Chief Inspector Heat about a lazy anarchist organization. In order for the anarchists to be arrested, an act of terrorism must occur. So Verloc decides to set up bombs – which leads to tragedy – not only for himself but also for his family, including wife Winnie and brother-in-law, Stevie.
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Sense and Sensibility
Title: Sense and Sensibility
Character: Mrs. Jennings
Released: December 13, 1995
Type: Movie
The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. When Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son from his first marriage, John and wife Fanny. But these circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's current wife, and daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.
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Title: Martin Chuzzlewit
Character: Mrs. Gamp
Released: November 7, 1994
Type: TV
When old Martin Chuzzlewit disinherits his grandson, he falls prey to a host of rapacious relatives.
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Title: Takin' Over the Asylum
Character: Grandma
Released: September 27, 1994
Type: TV
A salesman starts to run a hospital radio station inside a facility for people with mental heath needs.
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Title: Middlemarch
Character: Mrs. Cadwallader
Released: April 10, 1994
Type: TV
19th century Great Britain. The Industrial Revolution brings both the promise and fear of change. In the provincial town of Middlemarch, the progressive Dorothea Brooke desperately seeks intellectual fulfillment in a male-dominated society and is driven into an unhappy marriage to the elderly scholar Casaubon. No sooner do they embark on their honeymoon than she meets and develops an instant connection with Casaubon's young cousin, Will Ladislaw. When idealistic Doctor Lydgate arrives, his new methods of medicine sweep him into the battle between conservatives and liberals in town. He quickly becomes enamored of the beautiful, privileged Rosamond Vincy, a woman whose troubles seem bound to destroy him.
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A Pinch of Snuff
Title: A Pinch of Snuff
Character: Annabelle Andover
Released: April 9, 1994
Type: Movie
Receiving a tip from his dentist Jack Shorter, policeman Peter Pascoe takes a closer look at the Calliope Kinema Club, a film club notorious for showing adult entertainment movies. Shorter is convinced that one particular scene in a movie he recently saw was too realistic to have been staged with fake blood, but when Pascoe and his bluff superior Andy Dalziel starts investigating, they soon comes across the actress in question, Linda Abbott, who obviously didn't suffer from any harm and assures Pascoe that the concerns are unnecessary.
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Title: Class Act
Character: Harriet Mainwaring
Released: April 7, 1994
Type: TV
Class Act was a short-lived British comedy drama series produced in the early to mid-1990s by Verity Lambert. The series starred Joanna Lumley, Nadine Garner, and John Bowe.
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The Hour of the Pig
Title: The Hour of the Pig
Character: Madame Langlois
Released: September 25, 1993
Type: Movie
In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and political intrigues. At the same time, he is pushed to defend a pig, owned by the mysterious gypsy Samira. The pig has been arrested for the murder of a young boy.
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The Last Vampyre
Title: The Last Vampyre
Character: Eileen Mason
Released: March 14, 1993
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes investigates strange and tragic happenings in a village that appear linked to a man who seems to be like a vampire.
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Title: Anglo Saxon Attitudes
Character: Inge Middleton
Released: May 12, 1992
Type: TV
Gerald Middleton, is a taciturn and methodical man, a creature of habit who likes to have his daily routine undisturbed. Separated from his wife and disapproving of his youngest son’s job Gerald’s life and work are starting to lose their meaning. Keenly aware of his faults and the void that he has created around himself Middleton is forced back into the world once again as events from his past begin to catch up with him.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Rene Kirby
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Mrs. Andrews
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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The Old Devils
Title: The Old Devils
Character: Dorothy Morgan
Released: March 16, 1992
Type: Movie
An adaptation of the novel by Kingsley Amis about a group of university friends reunited in retirement. Alun Weaver has found success as a celebrated London-based writer. After returning home to Wales with his alluring wife Rhiannon he reunites with old friends who chose to remain in the valleys. Long dormant romance are rekindled and rivalries resurrected in this turbulent story of ageing, friendship, lust, nostalgia and nationalism.
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Title: The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Character: Schultz
Released: March 4, 1992
Type: TV
At the dawn of the 20th century, Indiana Jones discovered the world. From globetrotting family expeditions as a 9-year-old to the battlefields of World War I as a teenager, Indy’s experiences shaped the heroic, whip-cracking archaeologist he would become. At every turn, Indy encounters history in the making, meeting true-life activists, soldiers, writers, artists, and thinkers who helped influence the world we live in today.
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Impromptu
Title: Impromptu
Character: Baroness Laginsky
Released: April 12, 1991
Type: Movie
In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.
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Survival of the Fittest
Title: Survival of the Fittest
Character: Eileen Blackett
Released: October 21, 1990
Type: Movie
Molly Cowper is a wilful 80-year-old widow who firmly believes the world is there for her convenience. Her mild-mannered son Geoffrey does his best to help her keep her independence, but Molly keeps trampling on people.
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Title: Jeeves and Wooster
Character: Aunt Agatha
Released: April 22, 1990
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Character: May
Released: January 10, 1990
Type: TV
Seven-year-old Jess is removed from her peculiar Pentecostal home and sent to school.
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Title: Tales from the Crypt
Character: Mrs. Trask
Released: June 10, 1989
Type: TV
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?
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Title: Young Charlie Chaplin
Character: Madge Kendal
Released: January 25, 1989
Type: TV
The challenging and spirited early life of cinema's first great comedic artist, Charlie Chaplin, is portrayed. The innately talented young Charlie must overcome a wayward life of poverty and familial chaos to reach the pinnacle of stardom.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Mrs. Leadbetter
Released: January 8, 1989
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Kind of Living
Released: February 19, 1988
Type: TV
Trevor Beasley (Richard Griffiths), a schoolteacher, has his head stuck firmly in the past, despite having a new house, a new job, and a new baby. Also stars Frances de la Tour, Tim Healy, Anita Carey, and C.J. Allen.
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Title: Simon and the Witch
Character: The Witch
Released: November 16, 1987
Type: TV
Simon is a very sensible young schoolboy, who has a friend who is a real witch. She is very silly, and a huge showoff.
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Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
Title: Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
Character: Tabby
Released: October 26, 1987
Type: Movie
The Doctor and Mel visit Paradise Towers, a residential complex that promises a peaceful life to its residents. However, the establishment is far from what its name suggests: A conflict persists among the Kangs, humanesque multicolour beings who gather in opposing gangs based on which colour of the rainbow they bear; killer cleaning robots prowl the halls, and a secret in the complex's basement poses the greatest threat of all.
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Title: The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Character: Eva Peterlee
Released: August 2, 1987
Type: TV
The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.
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Title: Watching
Character: Aunt Peggy
Released: July 5, 1987
Type: TV
A British television sitcom set on Merseyside that revolves around the relationship between Malcolm, a polite and friendly but dull man from middle-class Meols, and Brenda, a sharp-tongued, rough-around-the-edges working-class girl from Liverpool. Instead of the typical 'will they, won't they get together?', after getting together in the first episode, the show is more 'will they, won't they break up?' Watching refers to both the acerbic people watching that Brenda does and the bird watching that Malcolm enjoys, much to the disappointment of Brenda.
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The Devil's Disciple
Title: The Devil's Disciple
Character: Mrs. Dudgeon
Released: May 17, 1987
Type: Movie
Shaw turned to the classic Victorian melodrama to focus on the insincerity of much that his audience held dear, especially family and marriage. In 1777 as the American War of Independence rages, Dick Dudgeon returns to the family he revolted against years ago. But his life is about to take another twist as the british arrive and seem set on an execution...
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Title: Casualty
Character: Barbara Thomas
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Title: Lovejoy
Character: Daphne Shotley
Released: January 10, 1986
Type: TV
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
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The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
Title: The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
Character: Evelyn Smith
Released: December 14, 1985
Type: Movie
A psychotic young man causes trouble during a Christmas gathering with his parents.
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Title: Time for Murder
Character: Evelyn Smith
Released: November 9, 1985
Type: TV
Written by six of Britain's finest writers (including Fay Weldon, Antonia Fraser, and Michael Robson), performed by leading actors, these are no ordinary tales of mystery and suspense. Each has its own twist, ranging from the darkly humorous to the truly macabre.
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Parker
Title: Parker
Character: Mrs. Epps
Released: May 3, 1985
Type: Movie
An Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later released with no explanation.
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Sakharov
Title: Sakharov
Character: Nobel Presenter
Released: June 20, 1984
Type: Movie
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
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Title: Sherlock Holmes
Character: Mrs Mason
Released: April 24, 1984
Type: TV
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.
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The Cold Room
Title: The Cold Room
Character: Frau Hoffman
Released: March 24, 1984
Type: Movie
A girl visiting modern day East Germany with her estranged father begins reliving the horrifying events that happened to a young girl living there during World War II.
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Those Glory Glory Days
Title: Those Glory Glory Days
Character: School Mistress
Released: November 17, 1983
Type: Movie
Girls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first British team in the 20th century to win the English league and FA Cup "double". Twenty years later, one of the girls tracks down players of the '60-'61 Spurs for a documentary.
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
Title: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Character: Mistress Quickly
Released: December 28, 1982
Type: Movie
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.
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Spider's Web
Title: Spider's Web
Character: Mildred Peake
Released: December 26, 1982
Type: Movie
Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?' she muses. Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent.
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Title: Objects of Affection
Character: Cora
Released: November 12, 1982
Type: TV
A series of plays written by Alan Bennett.
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Intensive Care
Title: Intensive Care
Character: Alice Duckworth
Released: November 9, 1982
Type: Movie
When Denis Midgley's father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything to be by his side. They've never really got on, so Midgley wants to be sure he's there if his father ever regains consciousness. As he hates his job as a schoolteacher, and his home-life with his wife, her senile mother and their insolent teenage son, he has no qualms about lingering around the hospital. But as days turn into weeks, his father obstinately refuses to 'slip away', and Denis' motivation for staying by his father's bedside has more and more to do with Valery, a young nurse.
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The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
Title: The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
Character: Mrs. Palmer
Released: February 26, 1982
Type: Movie
Thirteen-year-old Cassie Palmer, the seventh child of a seventh child, has inherited the gift of second sight. Unsure whether or not she even believes in ghosts, Cassie heads to the cemetery to test her ability to communicate with the Other World. She starts with the departed spirit of a harmless child: CHARLOTTE EMMA ELIZABETH WEBB, BORN 1840 DIED 1847. But when a mysterious man appears, Cassie finds a new companion. Is he a gravedigger? A bum? Or did Cassie's inexperience cause her to bring back Charlotte's frightening neighbor: DEVERILL 1720 - 1762?
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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Title: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Character: Miss Markland
Released: February 16, 1982
Type: Movie
After finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency, Cordelia Gray is asked to investigate the suicide of the man's son. During the course of her investigation, Cordelia becomes obsessed with the young man's memory and his increasingly suspicious death.
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Title: Shine on Harvey Moon
Released: January 8, 1982
Type: TV
Shine on Harvey Moon! is a British comedy-drama series made by Central Television for ITV from 8 January 1982 to 23 August 1985 and briefly revived in 1995 by Meridian. This generally light-hearted series was created by comedy writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. The series is set in the East End of London shortly after the Second World War. Upon being demobbed RAF serviceman Harvey Moon, played by Kenneth Cranham, returns home and finds his family involved in various troubles. His wife Rita, played by Maggie Steed, is not interested in resuming their relationship, and works in a seedy nightclub frequented by American servicemen. He becomes involved with the Labour Party and the union movement. The name of the series is a wordplay on the title of the popular 1908 song 'Shine On, Harvest Moon'. The first series was commissioned and recorded by ATV at their Elstree studios with the remaining series filmed at newly constructed facilities in Nottingham.
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Title: Bergerac
Character: Mary Lou Costain
Released: October 18, 1981
Type: TV
Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
Title: Lady Chatterley's Lover
Character: Lady Eva
Released: June 29, 1981
Type: Movie
After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
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The Cause
Title: The Cause
Character: Olive James
Released: February 3, 1981
Type: Movie
"I wish I could write ... about what Spain was like - a real cause. Not just Cornford, Hemingway and Orwell, but the ordinary blokes who went." A confused industrial dispute at a London hospital triggers off in trade unionist George Harley 's mind memories of his days fighting in the Spanish Civil War, when the issues seemed so much clearer.
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Richard's Things
Title: Richard's Things
Character: Mrs. Sells
Released: December 26, 1980
Type: Movie
Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual pain, love, envy and jealousy bring them together in an unexpected emotional and physical relationship.
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Title: Fox
Released: March 10, 1980
Type: TV
Fox is a British television drama series produced by Euston Films and Thames Television for the ITV network in 1980. The thirteen-part series was based around the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in London and had gangland connections. The series was written by Trevor Preston, produced by Verity Lambert and directed by Jim Goddard.
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Fox
Title: Fox
Character: Connie Fox
Released: March 10, 1980
Type: Movie
The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.
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The Dybbuk
Title: The Dybbuk
Character: Frade
Released: February 24, 1980
Type: Movie
A young bride is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person, on the eve of her wedding.
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Title: Tales of the Unexpected
Character: Martha
Released: March 24, 1979
Type: TV
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.
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Title: Tales of the Unexpected
Character: Aunt May
Released: March 24, 1979
Type: TV
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.
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Julius Caesar
Title: Julius Caesar
Character: Calphurnia
Released: February 11, 1979
Type: Movie
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.
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Afternoon Off
Title: Afternoon Off
Character: Miss Beckinsale
Released: February 3, 1979
Type: Movie
Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested in him, on his afternoon off work he buys a box of chocolates and sets off to find her.
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Title: BBC Television Shakespeare
Released: December 3, 1978
Type: TV
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.
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Title: Victorian Scandals
Released: September 3, 1976
Type: TV
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Love Letters on Blue Paper
Title: Love Letters on Blue Paper
Character: Sonia Marsden
Released: March 2, 1976
Type: Movie
Why has Sonia taken to writing letters to her husband, posted to him in the letter-box just outside their house – love letters, on blue paper, recalling with increasing vividness the early days of their courtship and marriage?
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Title: The Glittering Prizes
Character: Lady Frances Davidson
Released: January 21, 1976
Type: TV
The Glittering Prizes is a British television drama about the changing lives of a group of Cambridge students, starting in 1952 and following them through to middle age in the 1970s. It was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1976.
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Title: Prometheus: The Life of Balzac
Released: October 20, 1975
Type: TV
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Leeds United!
Title: Leeds United!
Character: Maggie
Released: October 31, 1974
Type: Movie
The true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be paid the same as their male colleagues, but whose efforts were undermined by the trade union that they belonged to.
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Title: Black and Blue
Released: August 14, 1973
Type: TV
Black and Blue was a BBC TV comedy-drama series, first broadcast in 1973. It was so named because of the black and blue humour. The show consisted of 6 episodes of 50–60 minutes duration, each episode was a separate self-contained playlet. The only connection between them was the Black and Blue humour theme. The first episode was broadcast on 14 August 1973, with the last episode airing on 18 September 1973. The play Secrets was wiped, only surviving thanks to a domestic videotape copy made from the mastertape by its producer, Mark Shivas.
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Title: Play for Today
Released: October 15, 1970
Type: TV
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
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3 Into 2 Won't Go
Title: 3 Into 2 Won't Go
Character: Marcia
Released: July 2, 1969
Type: Movie
Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a young hitchhiker, Elle Patterson, to emotionally get away from his marriage to his wife Francis. But when Elle moves into a room in Steve and Francis's house, he must keep the true nature of his relationship with Elle under wraps at all costs.
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Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Title: Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Character: Mrs Murray
Released: September 15, 1968
Type: Movie
Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind when he discovers the plant's boiler room has the perfect climate to assist him with his pet horticultural (fungal) project.
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Title: The Expert
Character: Mrs. Kyneston
Released: July 5, 1968
Type: TV
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.
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All's Well That Ends Well
Title: All's Well That Ends Well
Character: Widow
Released: March 6, 1968
Type: Movie
An adaptation directed by Claude Whatham for the BBC's Theatre 625 slot. Essentially a recording of John Barton's acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company production starring Catherine Lacey (the Countess), Ian Richardson (Bertram), Lynn Farleigh (Helen), Clive Swift (Parolles) and Sebastian Shaw (the King), it was broadcast on 3 June 1968.
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Title: BBC Play of the Month
Character: Maud Lowder
Released: October 19, 1965
Type: TV
Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983; the producer most associated with the Play of the Month was Cedric Messina. Some of the 121 episodes are missing from the archives, having been junked in the 1960s and 1970s. Unless stated otherwise, the indication that the play is "lost" is taken from the lostshows.com website page as of 25 May 2013.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Maddy
Released: November 23, 1963
Type: TV
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
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Title: Festival
Character: Lampito
Released: October 9, 1963
Type: TV
An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.