For the English cricketer, see Margaret Rutherford (cricketer).
Dame
Margaret Rutherford
DBE
Rutherford circa 1960
Born
Margaret Taylor Rutherford
(1892-05-11)11 May 1892
Balham, London, England
Died
22 May 1972(1972-05-22) (aged 80)
Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, England
Resting place
St. James's Church, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1925–1967
Spouse
Stringer Davis
(m. 1945)
Parent(s)
William Rutherford Benn Florence Nicholson
Relatives
Sir John Benn, 1st Baronet (uncle)
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 role as the Duchess of Brighton in The V.I.P.s (1963). In the early 1960s, she starred as Agatha Christie's character Miss Marple in a series of four George Pollock films. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1961 and a Dame Commander (DBE) in 1967.
Margaret Rutherford's early home, her aunt Bessie's house in Wimbledon, 1895–1920
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