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Margaret Rutherford
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British actress (1892–1972)
OverviewAI-generated
Margaret Rutherford was a British female artist whose professional career began in 1925. She was born on 11 May 1892 and died on 22 May 1972. Her work has been recognized within the Academy Award Best Supporting Actress collection.
As an author, she is associated with four works, including *Pawnshop on Monday*, *Arbitration Act 1996*, *The Lyle Official Antiques Review 1982*, and *Man with two environments*. A separate source lists a total of five works. Her music has been played 98,303 times by 3,604 listeners.
Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Pawnshop on Monday
- Arbitration Act 1996
- A longitudinal study of some early science experiences and certain television programmes affecting science liking and science subject choice
- The Lyle Official Antiques Review 1982
- Man with two environments
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1892-05-11
- Active to
- 1972-05-22
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3,604
- Total plays
- 98,303
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Margaret+Rutherford">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- TBtools: An Integrative Toolkit Developed for Interactive Analyses of Big Biological Data
· 2020 · cited 12,403x
- Parkinsonism
· 1967 · cited 9,746x
- Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
· 2014 · cited 9,235x
- Pilon: An Integrated Tool for Comprehensive Microbial Variant Detection and Genome Assembly Improvement
· 2014 · cited 8,999x
- The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project
· 2013 · cited 8,576x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- 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
- Actress
- Years active
- 1925–1967
- Spouse
- Stringer Davis ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1945 )
- Parent s
- William Rutherford Benn , Florence Nicholson
- Relatives
- Sir John Benn, 1st Baronet (uncle)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Margaret
- Family name
- Rutherford
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- Chalfont St Peter
- Spouse
- Stringer Davis
- Occupation
- character actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Dame Margaret Rutherford 1960 publicity photo.jpg
Show 11 more facts
- Commons category
- Margaret Rutherford
- manner of death
- natural causes
- date of birth
- 1892-05-11
- date of death
- 1972-05-22
- medical condition
- Alzheimer's disease
- cause of death
- Alzheimer's disease
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
- name in native language
- Margaret Rutherford
- start of work period
- 1925-00-00
- birth name
- Margaret Taylor Rutherford
- notable role
- Miss Marple
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford (11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972) was an English actress of stage, films and television.
Rutherford came to national attention following the Second World War in the film adaptations of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. In 1948 she was awarded a Special Tony Award for Outstanding Foreign Company as a cast member of The Importance of Being Earnest, and she later won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture 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.
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