Margaret Rutherford

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1892-05-11 (80 years old)

Deathday

1972-05-22

Place of Birth

Balham, London, England, UK

Margaret Rutherford

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

1961

Murder She Said

as Miss Jane Marple

1963

Murder at the Gallop

as Miss Jane Marple

1964

Murder Most Foul

as Miss Jane Marple

1964

Murder Ahoy

as Miss Jane Marple

1967

A Countess from Hong Kong

as Miss Gaulswallow

1949

Passport to Pimlico

as Professor Hatton-Jones

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

1957

Just My Luck

as Mrs. Dooley

1953

Trouble in Store

as Miss Bacon

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

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

1937

Catch as Catch Can

as 'Crafty' Maggie Carberry

1947

While the Sun Shines

as Dr. Winifred Frye

1970

The Virgin and the Gypsy

as Grandma (scenes deleted)

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