Margaret Rutherford

Margaret Rutherford

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Birthday: 
11 May 1892, Balham, London, England, UK
Birth Name: 
Margaret Taylor Rutherford
Height: 
165 cm
One is always at pains to locate a reference to Margaret Rutherford which does not characterize her as either jut-chinned, eccentric or both. But such, taken together, made for the charm of the woman. The combination of those most mundane of attributes has led some to suggest that she was made for the role of Agatha Christie's indomitable sleu... Show more »
One is always at pains to locate a reference to Margaret Rutherford which does not characterize her as either jut-chinned, eccentric or both. But such, taken together, made for the charm of the woman. The combination of those most mundane of attributes has led some to suggest that she was made for the role of Agatha Christie's indomitable sleuth, Jane Marple, whom Rutherford portrayed in four films between 1961 and 1964 plus in an uncredited film cameo in The Alphabet Murders (1965). Rutherford began her acting career first as a student at London's Old Vic, debuting on stage in 1925. In 1933, she first appeared in the West End at the not-so-tender age of 41. She had her screen debut in 1936 portraying Miss Butterby in the Twickenham-Wardour production of Dusty Ermine (1936).In summer 1941, Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit opened on the London stage, with Coward himself directing. Appearing as Madame Arcati, the genuine psychic, was Rutherford, in a role in which Coward had earlier envisaged her and which he then especially shaped for her. She would carry her portrayal of Madame Arcati to the screen adaptation, David Lean's Blithe Spirit (1945). Not only would this become one of Rutherford's most memorable screen performances - with her bicycling about the Kentish countryside, cape fluttering behind her - but it would establish the model for portraying that pseudo-soothsayer forever thereafter. Despite Rutherford's appearances in more than 40 films, it is as Madame Arcati and Miss Jane Marple that she will best be remembered. Show less «

Margaret Rutherford's FILMOGRAPHY

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

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A Countess from Hong Kong

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The Wacky World of Mother Goose

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The Alphabet Murders

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Chimes at Midnight (Campanadas a medianoche)

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Murder Most Foul

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Murder Ahoy

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Murder at the Gallop

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The Smallest Show on Earth

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Murder She Said

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On the Double

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Im All Right Jack

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Just My Luck

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The Importance of Being Earnest

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Trouble in Store

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The Magic Box

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Passport to Pimlico

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Blithe Spirit

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Spring Meeting

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Margaret Rutherford'S roles

Aunt Dolly
Aunt Dolly