Penny Spencer
Penny Spencer is a British actress, remembered for her performance as coquettish schoolgirl Sharon Eversleigh in the LWT television comedy series Please Sir!.
Early life
She attended Coombe Girls School in New Malden, Surrey.Career
Spencer's earliest acting experience was with the amateur theatre group led by Buster Merryfield.In addition to Please Sir!, her TV appearances include UFO and Public Eye. Her films include The Whisperers, The Best Pair of Legs in the Business and Under the Doctor.
In 2017 and 2019, she was a guest at conventions organised by the Gerry and Sylvia Anderson appreciation group Fanderson, and in 2018 appeared at a Please Sir! reunion event.
Filmography
- Georgy Girl – Kate
- The Whisperers – Mavis Noonan
- Countdown to Danger – Sue
- The Best House in London – Evelyn
- The Best Pair of Legs in the Business – Eunice
- Under the Doctor – Marion Parson
- The Playbirds – W.P.C. Andrews
Television
- Mickey Dunne – starlet
- Please Sir! – Sharon Eversleigh
- Man in a Suitcase – second model
- Dixon of Dock Green – Karen Dewar
- Crossroads – Muriel Pawcett
- Mr Rose – secretary
- Call My Bluff – self/panellist
- All Star Comedy Carnival – Sharon Eversleigh
- Anything You Can Do – self/judge
- Frost on Sunday at the British Film and Television Awards – Sharon Eversleigh
- Paul Temple – Maria
- The Troubleshooters a.k.a. Mogul – Poppy Mandragora
- UFO – Janis ; SHADO operative
- The Golden Shot – self
- All Gas and Gaiters – Felicity Pugh Critchley
- Seasons of the Year – Ruby
- Public Eye – Pauline
- The Dick Emery Show – Episode 11.8
- Dixon of Dock Green – girl at accident
- The Man Outside – Mildred
- A Picture of Katherine Mansfield – Kitty
- This Is Your Life – self/guest
- Lucky Feller – woman in street