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Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, DBE (11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972) was an English actress of stage, film and television. She came to national attention following World War II in the film adaptations of Noël Coward 's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde 's The Importance of Being Earnest. She won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her ...
Margaret Rutherford is best known for her role of Miss Marple in Agatha Christie's murder series. In these films, the character that she depicted was of a bold and eccentric nature, which was a deviation from Christie’s original creation.
Feb 14, 2019 · A mainstay of British comedy films such as 1953’s Innocents in Paris, 1955’s An Alligator Named Daisy and 1959’s I’m All Right Jack, Rutherford achieved her greatest fame as Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple in four films in the early 1960s, beginning with 1961’s Murder She Said in which her husband, Stringer Davis, played the ...
Margaret was the only child of William Rutherford Benn and his wife, the former Florence Nicholson. Wikipedia tells us that Rutherford’s father suffered from mental illness and had a nervous breakdown on his honeymoon, afterward being confined to an asylum.
Dec 29, 2012 · Margaret Rutherford was a benign battleaxe, chin wagging like a windsock, famous as Miss Marple, Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit and for her roles in Passport to Pimlico, The Importance of Being...
May 11, 2017 · It's 125 years since the invariably eccentric Dame Margaret Rutherford was born. Enjoy BBC Radio 4Xtra's excellent audio documentary on the queen of...
Short biography. Margaret Rutherford. was the daughter of William Benn and Florence Rutherford († 1895). Her father was considered insane: he slew on March 4th, 1883 his own father the Reverend Julius Benn with a chamber pot. In 1904 he was sent to the Broadmoor Hospital for criminally insane and was not released until seven years later into ...
