Margaret Rutherford
Actor
- Passport to Pimlico (1949)
- Dir. Henry Cornelius
Feat. Stanley Holloway, Hermione Baddeley, Margaret Rutherford
- To avoid licensing laws, a district of London declares itself an independent kingdom. Sounds like a premise for a classic Ealing satire!
- Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
- Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison, Dame Edith Evans…
- Screen version of Oscar Wilde's brilliant comedy of manners starring a host of British stage thesps.
- Norman Wisdom Collection, The (Trouble in Store, Up in the World, On the Beat.) (1953-1962)
- Feat. Norman Wisdom, Margaret Rutherford
- Collection of three comedies – Trouble in Store, Up in the World and On the Beat – from admired British slapstick comedian Norman Wisdom,…
- Smallest Show on Earth, The (1957)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Peter Sellers, Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers…
- A small gem of British comedy, concerning a young couple who inherit a movie–house from a long lost uncle. Along with the semi–decrepit…
- I'm All Right Jack (1959)
- Dir. John Boulting
Feat. Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas…
- Brilliant satire of labour and class relations, makes a glorious mockery of unions and management alike as upperclass twit Ian Carmichael joins the…
- Murder She Said (1961)
- Dir. George Pollock
Feat. Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, James Robertson-Justice…
- Miss Marple sees a murder aboard a passing train. First of four accomplished Agatha Christie films starring Margaret Rutherford.
- Agatha Christie 'Miss Marple' Boxset (Murder She Said, Murder at the Gallop, Murder Most Foul, Murder Ahoy) (1961-1964)
- Dir. George Pollock
Feat. Margaret Rutherford
- Four classic Agatha Christie stories from MGM's brief 'Miss Marple' phase, with the mercurial Margaret Rutherford doning the old spinster's detective…
- Murder at the Gallop (1963)
- Dir. George Pollock
Feat. Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Dame Flora Robson…
- Agatha Christie on film with Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple. Suspicions mount as relatives gather for the reading of a dead man's will.
- Murder Most Foul (1964)
- Dir. George Pollock
Feat. Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles Tingwell…
- Fourth and final film in the Agatha Christie/MGM set. Rutherford appears again as Miss Marple, defiant as the only member of a jury who believes the…
- Murder Ahoy (1964)
- Dir. George Pollock
Feat. Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles Tingwell…
- Rutherford dons Miss Marple's hat again, this time boarding a ship to uncover more murders and a ring of thieves.
- Chimes at Midnight (1965)
- Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, John Gielgud…
- Orson Welles' late–career masterpiece in which one of the Bard's great supporting characters Falstaff is given his due through a series of…
- Countess from Hong Kong, The (1967)
- Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Syd Chaplin…
- None too distinguished final film for dir. Chaplin is set aboard a cruise ship, on which US diplomat Brando finds a stowaway Russian countess…