Elizabeth SpriggsFilmography

The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

Actors: Helena Bergström, Lorcan Cranitch, Lindsay Duncan, Tim Dutton, Rolf Lassgård

Sibirsky Tsiryulnik

Actors: Nikita Mikhalkov, Nikita Tatarenko, Artem Mikhalkov, Georgy Dronov, Marina Neelova, Oleg Menshikov, Julia Ormond, Richard Harris, Alexei Petrenko, Vladimir Ilyin, Marat Basharov, Daniel Olbrychski, Anna Mikhalkova, Yevgeny Steblov

Synopsis: Love blooms amidst the backdrop of czarist Russia in Nikita Mikhalkov's The Barber of Siberia. The story opens in 1905 Springfield, MA, when a woman writes a letter to a young man in a military summer-training camp. He is currently being punished by one of his superiors, who forces him to wear a Read More

A Christmas Carol

Actors: Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Joel Grey, Ian McNeice, Saskia Reeves

Synopsis: Patrick Stewart stars as Ebeneezer Scrooge in this made-for-TV adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic holiday fable. Scrooge is a skinflint businessman who loathes the Christmas season and begrudges having to give time off to his best employee, Bob Cratchit (Richard E. Grant). On Christmas Eve Read More

Paradise Road

Actors: Glenn Close, Pauline Collins, Cate Blanchett, Frances McDormand, Julianna Margulies

Synopsis: Based on the testimony of survivors, this historical drama recounts the WWII heroism of female prisoners of war. (Glenn Close) stars as Adrienne Partiger, a society doyenne who flees Singapore with other expatriate women, mostly the wives of servicemen, when Japanese forces invade in 1942. When Read More

For My Baby

Actors: Alan Cumming, Juliet Aubrey, Frank Finlay, Elizabeth Spriggs, Serena Gordon

Synopsis: Scottish comedian Alan Cumming stars in this Dutch psychological drama, set in Vienna but mainly filmed in Budapest. Crazed stand-up comedian Daniel (Cumming) pleases his hospitalized mother (Hedi Temessy) by dressing to resemble his sister Hannah, who died in a Nazi concentration camp. After his Read More

The Secret Agent

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette, Gérard Depardieu, Robin Williams, George Spelvin, Jim Broadbent

Synopsis: In this adaptation of the novel by Joseph Conrad, Mr. Verloc (Bob Hoskins) runs a shabby corner shop in London that serves as a front for his more profitable sideline, selling pornography. However, selling sex photos is not Verloc's main order of business; he is a member of an anarchist Read More

Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badgers Drift

Actors: John Nettles, Daniel Casey, Jane Wymark, Laura Howard, Renée Ashershon

Synopsis: This is the first in a television series of British-made murder mysteries, adapted from Caroline Graham's novels about the polite and enigmatic Inspector Barnaby (John Nettles). Barnaby is married to the equally low-key Joyce (Jane Wymark), and they have an assertive daughter, Cully (Laura Read More

Sense and Sensibility

Actors: Gemma Jones, Elizabeth Spriggs, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, James Fleet, Greg Wise

Synopsis: The recipient of seven Oscar® nominations, this film version of Jane Austen's classic 1811 novel stars Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood. With her mother and sisters, Elinor struggles financially after the death of her father, who bequeathed the Dashwood estate to his oafish son by an earlier Read More

Martin Chuzzlewit

Synopsis: Charles Dickens' 1844 novel Martin Chuzzlewit was given one of its few TV presentations in this six-part British adaptation, which originally aired on BBC2 from November 7 to December 12, 1994. The youngest son of a mercenary London family, Martin Chuzzlewit was sent to America to learn the Read More

A Pinch of Snuff

Actors: Gareth Hale, Norman Pace, Christopher Fairbank, Freddie Jones, John McGlynn

Synopsis: Two years before Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan firmly established themselves as detectives Dalziel and Pascoe in the British cop series of the same name, comedians Gareth Hale and Norman Pace essayed the same roles in the semi-serious three-parter A Pinch of Snuff. Based on a novel by Reginald Hill Read More

The Advocate

Actors: Colin Firth, Ian Holm, Donald Pleasence, Nicol Williamson, Lysette Anthony

Synopsis: In France in 1452, the dark superstition of the Medieval era was beginning to give way to the more enlightened attitudes of the Renaissance. But the changes were slow in coming, as Richard Courtois (Colin Firth) learns when he moves to the country village of Abbeville, owned and ruled by the Read More

Impromptu

Actors: Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Julian Sands

Synopsis: Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, better known in the literary world as George Sand, not only took a man's name, but trotted around wearing pants and smoking cigars in public. No great shakes today, but in the 1800s she was perhaps the most famous (or infamous) woman in the world. One of the first Read More

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Actors: Geraldine McEwan, Charlotte Coleman

Synopsis: Filmed in Britain, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit stars Charlotte Coleman as a champing-at-the-bit teenager named Jess. The girl's domineering mother (Geraldine McEwan), a religious fanatic, wants Jess to become a missionary; to that end, she refuses to allow the girl any friends her own age. Read More

Young Charlie Chaplin

Actors: Twiggy, Lee Whitlock

Synopsis: Aimed at the ten- to 15-year-old demographic, this six-episode British series offered an entertaining if not entirely accurate overview of celebrated comedian Charlie Chaplin's formative years. Though fairly explicit in detailing the alcoholism of Chaplin's music hall headliner father Charles Read More

Going Undercover

Actors: Chris Lemmon, Jean Simmons, Lea Thompson, Nancy Cartwright, Mills Watson

Synopsis: A bungling gumshoe tries hard to affect a hard-boiled demeanor, despite the fact that his latest assignment is to protect the bratty young heiress to a fortune in this lively spoof of detective movies. Henry Brilliant, Private Eye, is no stranger to the ways of the wealthy as he too comes from a Read More

Doctor Who: Paradise Towers, Episode 3

Actors: Sylvester McCoy, Bonnie Langford, Elizabeth Spriggs, Clive Merrison, Annabel Yuresha

Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part story "Paradise Towers," the residents of the titular apartment complex continue to be held in thrall by a malevolent -- and murderous -- superbrain known as the Great Architect Kroagnon, who, appalled at the untidiness of his customers, has dispatched the Read More

Doctor Who: Paradise Towers, Episode 1

Actors: Sylvester McCoy, Bonnie Langford, Astra Sheridan, Joseph Young, Annabel Yuresha

Synopsis: The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Melanie (Bonnie Langford) decide to use the swimming pool at the Paradise Towers luxury-apartment complex. Unfortunately, the formerly award-winning complex has degenerated into a breeding ground for crime and vice -- and the current residents seem to be totally Read More

Doctor Who: Paradise Towers, Episode 2

Actors: Sylvester McCoy, Bonnie Langford, Richard Briers, Clive Merrison, Howard Cooke

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "Paradise Towers," the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Mel (Bonnie Langford) have discovered that a once-prestigious apartment complex is now in control of several disreputable factions, among them the Kangs and the Caretakers. Hoping to protect the Read More

Those Glory, Glory Days

Actors: Zoe Nathenson, Julia Goodman, Julia McKenzie, Peter Tilbury, Sara Sugarman

Synopsis: This weak, self-conscious, made-for-TV comedy (one of producer David Puttnam's "First Love" series) is about four girlfriends who play soccer during their teen years and cheer on their favorite soccer players as well. The story begins with one of the four, the sports reporter Julia (Julia Read More

The Thirteenth Day of Christmas

Synopsis: On perhaps the most important day of the year, a young, mentally disturbed boy is left home alone by his mother and father in this British tale. Made-for-television. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Cold Room

Actors: George Segal, Amanda Pays, Renée Soutendijk, Warren Clarke, Anthony Higgins

Synopsis: This chilling made-for-cable production stars winsome Amanda Pays as a prissy English college student who accompanies her estranged father (George Segal) to East Germany in an attempt to reconcile their differences. Shortly after her arrival, she begins to experience intense feelings of cold and Read More

Parker

Actors: Bryan Brown, Cherie Lunghi, Kurt Raab, Bob Peck

Synopsis: In this suspenseful thriller, David Parker (Bryan Brown) is a married businessman with three children, a mistress in Germany, and a brother dealing drugs -- a combination of relationships that will eventually prove fatal to several people. After David leaves his London home and family behind for a Read More

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

Actors: Pippa Guard, Billie Whitelaw, Paul Freeman, Dominic Guard, Dawn Archibald

Synopsis: After the suicide of her friend and employer, who has been teaching her to be a detective, Cordelia Gray (Pippa Guard) takes over his business and begins an investigation of the apparent suicide of the son of a businessman. When the suicide turns out to be murder, what she discovers disrupts the Read More

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Actors: Ben Kingsley

Synopsis: Windsor is a peaceful town on the Thames where hardly a leaf falls to disturb the silence. And then England's most notorious mischief maker, Sir John Falstaff (Richard Griffiths), arrives from London with his hooligans -- Bardolph (Gordon Gostelow), Nym (Michael Robbins), and Pistol (Nigel Terry) Read More

Spider's Web

Synopsis: Spider's Web is adapted from a lesser-known work by Agatha Christie. The murder victim this time is an erstwhile blackmailer. Accordingly, there are more suspects than you can shake a stick at, if that's your idea of a good time. Penelope Keith leads a cast of hardy British TV and stage veterans. Spider's Web Read More

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Actors: Sylvia Kristel, Shane Briant, Nicholas Clay, Ann Mitchell, Elizabeth Spriggs

Synopsis: The once-notorious D. H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterly's Lover seemed like kid stuff by the time this 1981 adaptation hit the screens. To pep up Lawrence's tale of an aristocratic woman who conducts an affair with her earthy gamekeeper, soft-core porn specialist Just Jaeckin attempted to convert Read More

Richard's Things

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Amanda Redman, Elizabeth Spriggs, Michael Maloney

Synopsis: In this grim drama, a grieving widow finds herself seeking solace in the arms of her late husband's lover, a woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Julius Caesar

Actors: Charles Gray

Synopsis: This 1979 BBC/Time-Life production of Julius Caesar faithfully follows Shakespeare's original version. When the film begins, cheering throngs hail Julius Caesar (Charles Gray) as he parades through the streets of Rome after conquering Pompey the Great. But a soothsayer unsettles the crowd when he Read More

Leeds - United!

Actors: Lynne Perrie, Elizabeth Spriggs, Lori Wells

Village Hall [TV Series]

Actors: Veronica Doran, Gabrielle Drake, Simon Turner, George Irving, Sheila Kelley

Synopsis: As indicated by the title, the main setting for this British anthology series was a village hall somewhere in the farm region. The cast remained the same from week to week, but their characters changed and the stories themselves were set in different time periods. Among the prominent playwrights Read More

Three Into Two Won't Go

Actors: Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Judy Geeson, Peggy Ashcroft, Paul Rogers

Synopsis: American actor Rod Steiger adopts a British accent to keep apace with his co-stars in Three into Two Won't Go. Steiger plays a prosperous salesman, married to Claire Bloom (Steiger's real-life wife at the time). While on a business trip, the salesman falls for a sexy 19-year-old hitchhiker (Judy Geeson Read More

Work Is a Four Letter Word

Actors: David Warner, Cilla Black, Elizabeth Spriggs, Zia Mohyeddin

Synopsis: Set in a futuristic world where man and machines compete, this comical fantasy centers upon a rather eccentric man who prefers raising his special giant, euphoria-producing mushrooms to working and spending time with his fiancee. He means well, for he believes that his funny fungus will help Read More