Agatha’s art
Questions:
1) Peter Ustinov played Poirot in six films and TV movies, none more famous than this 1978 blockbuster also starring Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, Maggie Smith and David Niven. Can you name it?
2) This famously fussy actor made an odd couple of choices in his roles, but playing Poirot in the 1966 movie “The Alphabet Murders” wasn’t one of them. Can you name him?
3) Name the gifted English actor who had a long run playing Poirot on PBS and A&E Network.
4) A shattering King Lear on PBS’ “Masterpiece Theatre,” what English actor played Poirot in a 1986 TV movie called “Murder by the Book”?
5) Who played Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in the star-studded 1974 feature film “Murder on the Orient Express”?
6) Before starring in her own long-running mystery series, which actress played Christie sleuth Miss Jane Marple in the 1980 movie mystery “The Mirror Crack’d”?
7) “The Mirror Crack’d” featured what two screen legends as a pair of bitter rivals?
8) In 1992, PBS did a remake of “The Mirror Crack’d” featuring an English actress who played Miss Marple at least a dozen times on television. Can you name her?
9) How many Miss Marple movies did Margaret Rutherford make during the 1960s?
10) What Neil Simon movie comedy included James Coco and Elsa Lanchester spoofing Poirot and Marple?