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name: "Margaret Rutherford"
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imdb_id: "nm0751983"
tmdb_id: 11127
wikidata_id: "Q230143"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "11 May 1892"
died: "22 May 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T15:51:35.962747+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Margaret Rutherford

## Identity

Margaret Rutherford

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/margaret-rutherford
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** margaret-rutherford
- **IMDb ID:** nm0751983
- **TMDB ID:** 11127
- **Wikidata ID:** Q230143
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Rutherford, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230143, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0751983/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11127

Actor. Born 11 May 1892 in Balham, London, England, UK. Died 22 May 1972.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 11 May 1892, Balham, London, England, UK
- **Died:** 22 May 1972
- **Also known as:** Маргарет Рутерфорд, Margaret Taylor Rutherford, Маргарет Тейлор Рутерфорд
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Rutherford, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230143, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0751983/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11127

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Chimes at Midnight*](https://film.one/film/chimes-at-midnight.md) (88)

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## Biography

Margaret Rutherford was an English actress. Born Margaret Taylor Rutherford on 11 May 1892 in Balham, London, she died on 22 May 1972.

She trained at the Old Vic and began appearing on the London stage in the early 1930s. Her film roles included Madame Arcati in the adaptation of Noël Coward’s *Blithe Spirit* (1945) and Miss Prism in the adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s *The Importance of Being Earnest* (1952).

Rutherford played Miss Jane Marple in four films released between 1961 and 1964. She appeared as Mistress Quickly in Orson Welles’s *Chimes at Midnight* (1965). For her performance in *The V.I.P.s* (1963) she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was appointed DBE in 1967.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Chimes at Midnight* (1965), Fi1m 88, as Mistress Quickly — [page](https://film.one/film/chimes-at-midnight.md)

## Complete filmography (46)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *To See Such Fun* (1977), Actor
- *The Virgin and the Gypsy* (1970), as Grandma (scenes deleted)
- *The Wacky World of Mother Goose* (1967), as Mother Goose (voice)
- *Arabella* (1967), as Princess Ilaria
- *A Countess from Hong Kong* (1967), as Miss Gaulswallow
- *The Alphabet Murders* (1965), as Miss Jane Marple (uncredited)
- *Chimes at Midnight* (1965), as Mistress Quickly — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/chimes-at-midnight.md)
- *Murder Ahoy* (1964), as Miss Jane Marple
- *Murder Most Foul* (1964), as Miss Jane Marple
- *The V.I.P.s* (1963), as The Duchess of Brighton
- *Murder at the Gallop* (1963), as Miss Jane Marple
- *The Mouse on the Moon* (1963), as Grand Duchess Gloriana XIII
- *Zero One* (1962), series, Actor
- *Murder She Said* (1961), as Miss Jane Marple
- *On the Double* (1961), as Lady Vivian
- *I'm All Right Jack* (1959), as Aunt Dolly
- *Just My Luck* (1957), as Mrs. Dooley
- *The Smallest Show on Earth* (1957), as Mrs. Fazackalee
- *An Alligator Named Daisy* (1955), as Prudence Croquet
- *Aunt Clara* (1954), as Clara Hilton
- *Mad About Men* (1954), as Nurse Carey
- *Trouble in Store* (1953), as Miss Bacon
- *Innocents in Paris* (1953), as Gwladys Inglott
- *The Runaway Bus* (1953), as Miss Cynthia Beeston
- *Miss Robin Hood* (1952), as Heather Honey
- *The Importance of Being Earnest* (1952), as Miss Prism
- *Castle in the Air* (1952), as Miss Nicholson
- *Curtain Up* (1952), as Catherine Beckwith / Jeremy St. Claire
- *The Magic Box* (1952), as Lady Pond
- *Her Favourite Husband* (1950), as Mrs. Dotherington
- *The Happiest Days of Your Life* (1950), as Muriel Whitchurch
- *Passport to Pimlico* (1949), as Professor Hatton-Jones
- *Miranda* (1948), as Nurse Carey
- *Meet Me at Dawn* (1947), as Madame Vernorel
- *While the Sun Shines* (1947), as Dr. Winifred Frye
- *Blithe Spirit* (1945), as Madame Arcati
- *English Without Tears* (1944), as Lady Christabel Beauclerk
- *Yellow Canary* (1943), as Mrs. Towcester
- *The Demi-Paradise* (1943), as Rowena Ventnor
- *Quiet Wedding* (1941), as Second Magistrate
- *Spring Meeting* (1941), as Aunt Bijou
- *Big Fella* (1938), as Nanny (uncredited)
- *Catch as Catch Can* (1937), as 'Crafty' Maggie Carberry
- *Beauty and the Barge* (1937), as Mrs. Baldwin
- *Talk of the Devil* (1936), Actor
- *Dusty Ermine* (1936), as Evelyn Summers aka Miss Butterby

## Gallery

- ![Margaret Rutherford](https://film.one/media/person/3911651/gallery-46fc321577d1.jpg) Margaret Rutherford — N/A studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Dame_Margaret_Rutherford_1960_publicity_photo.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Margaret Rutherford](https://film.one/media/person/3911651/gallery-e601f109464d.jpg) Margaret Rutherford — Image via TMDB
- ![Margaret Rutherford](https://film.one/media/person/3911651/gallery-3109a637b632.jpg) Margaret Rutherford — Image via TMDB
- ![Margaret Rutherford](https://film.one/media/person/3911651/gallery-69312f767fec.jpg) Margaret Rutherford — Image via TMDB
- ![Margaret Rutherford](https://film.one/media/person/3911651/gallery-e0bc56a8469a.jpg) Margaret Rutherford — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 1964: Best Supporting Actress (won), for *The V.I.P.s*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire 1967: Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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