![]() Strongly associated with Marple in a series of big screen comedy-mysteries which were quite popular in the early sixties. ![]() While Gracie Fields had essayed the role for television in the fifties, it was the ebullient Margaret Rutherford who was first Were to associate an actress with the role, chances are it would be Joan Hickson, who played Miss Marple for around eight years fromġ984 to 1992. Performers like Albert Finney (who was Oscar nominated in Murder on the Orient Express) and Peter Ustinov also tackling the part.Ĭhristie's other iconic detective, mild mannered spinster Jane Marple, has had a somewhat more varied screen life, though if one ![]() Rarely has one actor been so thoroughly associated with a role as David Suchet has been with Agatha Christie's inimitable Poirot, despite legendary Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, March 27, 2015 ![]()
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