Liz Smith
Birthday: 1921-12-11
Place of Birth: Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Biography: Betty Gleadle (December 11, 1921 – December 24, 2016), known by the stage name Liz Smith, was an English character actress, known for her roles in BBC sitcoms, including as Annie Brandon in I Didn't Know You Cared (1975–1979), the sisters Bette and Belle in 2point4 Children (1991–1999), Letitia Cropley in The Vicar of Dibley (1994–1996) and Norma Speakman ("Nana") in The Royle Family (1998–2000, 2006). She also played Zillah in Lark Rise to Candleford (2008) and won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the 1984 film A Private Function.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the worl...
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Pa...
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Apartment Zero
In a rundown area of Buenos Aires, at the dawn of the 1980s, Adrian LeDuc owns both a struggling mov...
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High Spirits
When a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising cam...
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's re...
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Agatha
England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly dis...
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Britannia Hospital
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by...
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Little Dorrit
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a ...
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Keeping Mum
A pastor preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife is having an aff...
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An Evening with Lily Savage
Enjoy the outrageous and flamboyant First Lady of British Comedy, Lily Savage, as she performs her i...
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Anthrakitis
Dolly, an elderly widow who lives alone, has been hoarding coal since the deaths of her husband and ...
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon b...
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Pretty Princess
A princess from a Nordic European country is obligated to marry the boy her family chose. She escape...
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The Stick Up
Duke Turnbeau (David Soul) has come to England, in the 1930s, as a way to improve his fortunes. For ...
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Bleak Moments
Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister...
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Words of Love
2 February 1959. The Winter Dance party, Clear Lake, Iowa - another date on Buddy Holly's whistle-st...
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Son of the Pink Panther
The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin....
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The Revengers' Comedies
After saving each other from jumping off a bridge, Henry Bell and Karen Knightly plot to avenge the ...
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Anna Spud
Anna Spud is the grumpiest little girl in the world. The prospect of long car journey trapped with h...
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of...
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Night of 100 Stars III
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy....
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Curse of the Pink Panther
Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for hi...
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Fanny Hill
Happily engaged to her handsome fiance, Charles, Fanny is soon hit with one misfortune after another...
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The Antiques Rogue Show
Drama documentary about one of the world's most prolific and diverse art forgers, Shaun Greenhalgh, ...
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It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow
A recreation of a World War II incident which occurred in London's Bethnal Green underground station...
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Nona
British production of Argentinan Roberto Cossa's play, set in Argentina in 1982. Nona is an elderly ...
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A Private Function
In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince ...
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A Christmas Carol
Loan shark Eddie Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable...
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Tube Tales
Nine short stories based on the true experiences of London Underground passengers: "Mr. Cool" (Amy J...
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Harem
A young British woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheikh and held captive in his harem. At first she ...
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Donovan Quick
Quirky stranger Donovan (Colin Firth) blows into the Scottish village of Port Clyde. There, he rents...
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Flick
Memphis cop Lieutenant McKenzie is called in to investigate a series of strange deaths and wierd sig...
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Doggin' Around
The past catches up with an ageing American jazz pianist when he returns to the clubs of Lancashire ...
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The Testing of Eric Olthwaite
Eric Olthwaite is so boring that his family all leave home to escape him. Then one day he is acciden...
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Alice in Wonderland
Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets charact...
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Dakota Road
A sensitive drama about a farm labourer's abused daughter who fantasises about the officers of the l...
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City of Ember
For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering l...
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Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays....
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It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
Based on James Herriot's books about life as a 1930s veterinarian in Yorkshire, John Alderson plays ...
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A Good Thief
Rita witnesses a murder, and believing she and her family are now in danger, she goes on the run wit...
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Secrets & Lies
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother...
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Jake's Journey
A normal teenager is transported to a Monty Pythonesque medieval fantasy land where an odd, adamant ...
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We Think the World of You
An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his ...
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Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
Sir Henry Rawlinson attempts to exorcise the ghost of his brother Humbert, who was accidentally kill...
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Oliver Twist
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv...
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A Christmas Carol
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e...
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Tom's Midnight Garden
When Tom's brother Peter gets measles, he is sent to stay with his Uncle Alan and Aunt Gwen in a fla...
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A Christmas Carol
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e...
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Spend Spend Spend
Based on the book "Spend, Spend, Spend" by Vivian Nicholson and Stephen Smith. Story of pools winner...
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Nero
As a young boy, future emperor Nero witnesses the mad Emperor Caligula kill his father and exile his...
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Separate Tables
Two one-act plays explore love and loneliness. In "Table by the Window" an aging fashion model contr...
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Dead Cool
A story about modern family relationships, as seen through the eyes of 15 year-old David. Six years ...
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the ...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
Posing as a dancer for the Ballets Russes in Barcelona, Indy meets old friend Pablo Picasso, and nar...
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Jack Point
Rivalry at a local Gilbert and Sullivan Society over who will play Jack Point in the Silver Jubilee ...
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Taking Leave
Mike comes home on leave from Ulster. After six years in the Army he has to decide whether to sign u...
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Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
A television special broadcast on PBS in honor of composer, songwriter, pianist, television writer a...
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The Magic Flute
During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night ...
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Haunted
Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the ...
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Breath
Nell tries hard to cope with her husband, family and friends - but her asthma creates problems. Ever...
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Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
A musical about a miner who wants to break into show business....
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Keep an Eye on Albert
Pubs, pigeons, weight-lifting - that's Terry's life, and his wife Glenda feels neglected. But now Te...
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The Duellists
In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel...
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The Monster Club
A vampire attacks a horror author on the street and then invites him to a nearby club as a gesture o...
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Murder Rap
Wally, a caretaker in a block of flats, loses his job when the flats are used to rehouse Bhengali fa...
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Trail of the Pink Panther
The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspecto...
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On the Palm
Fledge needs a job. He'll take anything. And when Dawlish gives him strange errands to run, for cash...
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The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa
Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash discuss the creation of The Royle Family, with a look behind the scen...
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When We Are Married
Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually m...
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Drowning in the Shallow End
Nothing seems to go right for Colin, no matter how he tries. No one is offering him writing work, an...
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Crystal Gazing
Experimental drama set in London during the Thatcher administration involving four characters: Neil,...
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Leo the Last
Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded wi...
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