Most Recent Role: on Agatha Christie's Marple
Alias Name(s): Dame Agatha Christie, Mary Westmacott
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Torquay, Devon, England
Birthday: 9-15-1890
Birth Name: Agatha May Clarissa Miller
Date of Death: 1-12-1976
Alias Name(s): Dame Agatha Christie, Mary Westmacott
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Torquay, Devon, England
Birthday: 9-15-1890
Birth Name: Agatha May Clarissa Miller
Date of Death: 1-12-1976
Agatha Christie was the younger child of Frederick Alvah Miller, a well-to-do American business man living in England, and his Anglo-Irish wife, Clarissa Boehmer (1855-1926), called Clara, who wrote stories and poetry. Agatha had a sister, Margaret Frary Miller (1879-1950), called Madge, twelve years her senior, and a brother, Louis Montant Miller (1880-1929), called Monty, ten years older...
Most Recent Appearance
At Bertram's Hotel
Sunday 23 September 2007 on ITV1
Miss Marple leaves St. Mary Mead for a trip to London's elite, Victorian, and "too good to be true" Bertram's Hotel, where she used to spend her holidays as a child. Soon after her arrival, a maid is found murdered on the roof and Miss Marple tries to uncover the truth with the help of another...
Agatha and her husband Max are buried at St Mary's Church, Cholsey, Berkshire.
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Agatha was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. She received an honorary degree (Doctor of Letters) from the University of Exeter in 1961.
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From the 1930s until her death, Agatha had two country houses, Winterbrook House, near Wallingford, Berkshire, bought in 1934, and Greenway House in Devon, with about two hundred and fifty acres, bought in 1938. The house in Devon is still owned by the family.
(edit) Agatha's work has built a huge fortune for her family - her daughter and grandson are said to be worth more than six hundred million pounds, or well over a billion U.S. dollars. (edit) Agatha's play The Mousetrap is now the longest continuously-running stage production in history, having opened in 1952. (edit)
(edit) Agatha's work has built a huge fortune for her family - her daughter and grandson are said to be worth more than six hundred million pounds, or well over a billion U.S. dollars. (edit) Agatha's play The Mousetrap is now the longest continuously-running stage production in history, having opened in 1952. (edit)
Agatha Christie: An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
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Agatha Christie: The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one.
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Agatha Christie: I have always admired the Esquimaux. One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice and doesn't come back.
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Agatha Christie: If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it the wrong way around.
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Agatha Christie: The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.
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Other Appearances
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The South Bank Show
Agatha Christie, How Did She Do It? Herself (archive footage) |
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Mystery!
Agatha Christie Stories (9) The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife |
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