Margaret Rutherford
Birthday
1892/05/11
Day of death
1972/05/22 (80 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Balham, London, England, UK
Also know as
Маргарет Рутерфорд, Margaret Taylor Rutherford, Маргарет Тейлор Рутерфорд
Biography
Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford DBE (11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972) was an English character actress, who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. She is best-known for her 1960s performances as Miss Marple in several films based loosely on Agatha Christie's novels. Description above from the Wikipedia article Margaret Rutherford, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting
(1965) Chimes at Midnight
as Mistress Quickly
(1963) Murder at the Gallop
as Miss Jane Marple
(1964) Murder Ahoy
as Miss Jane Marple
(1964) Murder Most Foul
as Miss Jane Marple
(1961) Murder She Said
as Miss Jane Marple
(1967) A Countess from Hong Kong
as Miss Gaulswallow
(1949) Passport to Pimlico
as Professor Hatton-Jones
(1952) The Importance of Being Earnest
as Miss Prism
(1965) The Alphabet Murders
as Miss Jane Marple (uncredited)
(1959) I'm All Right Jack
as Aunt Dolly
(1957) The Smallest Show on Earth
as Mrs. Fazackalee
(1963) The V.I.P.s
as The Duchess of Brighton
(1953) Trouble in Store
as Miss Bacon
(1957) Just My Luck
as Mrs. Dooley
(1943) Yellow Canary
as Mrs. Towcester
(1963) The Mouse on the Moon
as Grand Duchess Gloriana XIII
(1945) Blithe Spirit
as Madame Arcati
(1952) The Magic Box
as Lady Pond
(1953) The Runaway Bus
as Miss Cynthia Beeston
(1950) The Happiest Days of Your Life
as Muriel Whitchurch
(1961) On the Double
as Lady Vivian
(1948) Miranda
as Nurse Carey
(1954) Mad About Men
as Nurse Carey
(2012) Truly Miss Marple: The Curious Case of Margaret Rutherford
as Self (archive footage)
(1944) English Without Tears
as Lady Christabel Beauclerk
(1953) Innocents in Paris
as Gwladys Inglott
(1936) Dusty Ermine
as Evelyn Summers aka Miss Butterby
(1967) The Wacky World of Mother Goose
as Mother Goose (voice)
(1952) Miss Robin Hood
as Miss Honey
(1941) Quiet Wedding
as Second Magistrate
(1955) An Alligator Named Daisy
as Prudence Croquet
(1943) The Demi-Paradise
as Rowena Ventnor
(1952) Castle in the Air
as Miss Nicholson
(1967) Arabella
as Princess Ilaria
(1938) Big Fella
as Nanny (uncredited)
(1952) Curtain Up
as Catherine Beckwith / Jeremy St. Claire
(1954) Aunt Clara
as Clara Hilton
(1950) Her Favourite Husband
as Mrs. Dotherington
(1941) Spring Meeting
as Aunt Bijou
(1937) Beauty and the Barge
as Mrs. Baldwin
(1947) Meet Me at Dawn
as Madame Vernorel
(1936) Talk of the Devil
as ---
(1965) The Stately Ghosts of England
as Herself
(1937) Catch as Catch Can
as 'Crafty' Maggie Carberry
(1947) While the Sun Shines
as Dr. Winifred Frye
(1977) To See Such Fun
as ---
(1970) The Virgin and the Gypsy
as Grandma (scenes deleted)
(1962) The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
(1962) Zero One
as ---