Liz Smith
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.
Filmography (132)
Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model
The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa- The Antiques Rogue Show
Lark Rise to Candleford
City of Ember
Flick
The Graham Norton Show
The Magic Flute
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Oliver Twist
Keeping Mum
Dead Cool
Imperium: Nero
Nero
The Paul O'Grady Show
Between The Sheets
Anna Spud- A Good Thief
V Graham Norton
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
A Christmas Carol
Donovan Quick
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
A Christmas Carol- It's Only TV But I Like It
Oliver Twist
Alice in Wonderland
Tom's Midnight Garden
Tube Tales- Anthrakitis
The Royle Family
So Graham Norton
Wife of Bath
The Revengers' Comedies
V.I.P.
Trial & Retribution
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
An Evening with Lily Savage
Secrets & Lies
Karaoke
Crapston Villas
The Queen's Nose
Haunted
Takin' Over the Asylum
The Vicar of Dibley
Doggin' Around
Pirates
Shooting Stars
Pretty Princess
Son of the Pink Panther
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles- Dakota Road
- Nona
Bottom
2Point4 Children
Performance
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music- El C.I.D.
Drowning in the Shallow End
Cluedo
Night of 100 Stars III
Young Charlie Chaplin
Words of Love
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Screen One
Apartment Zero
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
Jake's Journey
We Think the World of You
High Spirits
When We Are Married
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Little Dorrit
On the Palm
Valentine Park
Lovejoy
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
American Masters
Casualty
Worlds Beyond
Harem
Screen Two
Mann's Best Friends
A Christmas Carol
The Bill
A Private Function- Mr. Right
Separate Tables
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
Fanny Hill
Curse of the Pink Panther- Now And Then
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Crystal Gazing
Britannia Hospital
Wogan
Trail of the Pink Panther
The French Lieutenant's Woman
The Monster Club
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
Murder Rap
Agatha
An Audience with...
The Testing of Eric Olthwaite
The Duellists
Nicholas Nickleby
The Stick Up
Spend Spend Spend
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
The Duchess of Duke Street
Ripping Yarns
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Sweeney
It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow
I Didn't Know You Cared
Breath
Keep an Eye on Albert
Taking Leave
Bedtime Stories- Seven Faces of Woman
Jack Point
Last of the Summer Wine
Hard Labour- Second City Firsts
Crown Court
Bleak Moments
Play for Today
Leo the Last
In Loving Memory
Tony Awards