Elizabeth Spriggs
Also Known As: Elizabeth Jean Williams, Elisabeth Spriggs, Elizabeth Jean Spriggs-Manson, Елізабет Спріггс
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).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
Birthday: September 18, 1929
Deathday: July 02, 2008
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Gender: Female
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Sakharov
Overview: Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-20
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The Dybbuk
Overview: 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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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-24
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Survival of the Fittest
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-21
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The Secret Agent
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-08
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For My Baby
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-19
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3 Into 2 Won't Go
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-02
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Julius Caesar
Overview: The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-11
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The Barber of Siberia
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1998-11-11
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Sense and Sensibility
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-13
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Leeds United!
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-31
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The Last Vampyre
Overview: Sherlock Holmes investigates strange and tragic happenings in a village that appear linked to a man who seems to be like a vampire.
Genres: Thriller Crime TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-14
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Intensive Care
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-09
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Afternoon Off
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-03
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Alice in Wonderland
Overview: 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?
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-28
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Paradise Road
Overview: 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.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-11
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Richard's Things
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-26
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The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
Overview: Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve of young Jack's 16th birthday. Her remarkable likeness to Jack's mother, Emily, who tragically died in an accident eight years ago both baffles and unsettles the family. She even wears the same pearls that Emily wore.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-25
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Rust
Overview: A deadly virus threatens the population, but a vaccine has been developed. However, it has a devastating side-effect. All is not well in the family of the government's chief scientific adviser. But the mood at the vaccine manufacturer is more upbeat, at the prospect of a lucrative government contract.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-04
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-29
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All's Well That Ends Well
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-06
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Fox
Overview: The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-10
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Is Anybody There?
Overview: A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-17
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-16
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Those Glory Glory Days
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-17
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Spider's Web
Overview: 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.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-26
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A Christmas Carol
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-05
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Parker
Overview: An Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later released with no explanation.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-03
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The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
Overview: A psychotic young man causes trouble during a Christmas gathering with his parents.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-14
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Impromptu
Overview: In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-12
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The Hour of the Pig
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History Thriller Crime Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-25
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Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-15
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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-16
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
Overview: Indy finds that he must enlist the help of Hapsburg royalty when he embarks on a dangerous diplomatic mission through enemy-held Europe into the palace of Emperor Karl of Austria. Endangering his life and the lives of his royal charges, Indy gambles all in a desperate attempt to bring the war more quickly to an end. Then, in chaos-ridden Russia, Indy finds his espionage work once again threatening lives when he infiltrates a group of young Bolsheviks and begins to empathize with their plight. As the country lurches toward revolution, Indy finds himself torn between loyalty to his friends and his military duty.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-07
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A Pinch of Snuff
Overview: 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.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-09
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-28
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The Devil's Disciple
Overview: 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...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-17
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James Ellis: An Actor's Life
Overview: Documentary tracing the life of James Ellis, one of Northern Ireland’s best loved actors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-02
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The Sleeper
Overview: 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...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-26
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Love Letters on Blue Paper
Overview: 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?
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-02
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The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
Overview: 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?
Genres: Family Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-26
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The Cause
Overview: "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.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-03
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Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
Overview: 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.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-26
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The Cold Room
Overview: 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.
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-24
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The Old Devils
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-16
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Our Winnie
Overview: Winnie is a mentally handicapped woman who lives with her elderly mother (Cora) and aunt (Ida). They visit the cemetery where Winnie’s father is buried. Also in the cemetery are two art students, one of whom (Liz) asks if she can take a photograph of the three women. She takes it while they are not prepared, making them look ridiculous (Cora is putting her make-up on, Winnie is staring at the camera with her mouth open). Cora is angry, and Liz takes another of them properly posed. But she enters the first photograph for a competition, where it wins a prize
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-12
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The Enigma
Overview: When John Fielding, MP, disappeared on the way home to his country estates he was, perhaps, cracking the first good joke of his life. Sergeant Jennings, left to pursue the investigation, finds little humour or help amongst Fielding's friends or family. Only Isobel could believe that Fielding might have wanted to disappear.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-09
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Fothergill
Overview: John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most celebrated Inn in England, catering to the brightest lights in London's literati.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-08
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The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
Overview: A day in the life of Mrs Radcliffe , who believes that the advice she so freely gives is done only out of kindness.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-23
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Able's Will
Overview: Thomas Able, once a successful writer, has not written since the war. He lies paralysed and dying. His family gather at the family home.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-05
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