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David Horovitch (born 11 August 1945) is an English actor, perhaps best known for playing the character of Inspector Slack in Miss Marple. He appeared in the Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon as Grand Maester Mellos .
Miss Jane Marple is a fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories. Miss Marple lives in the village of St Mary Mead and acts as an amateur consulting detective. Often characterised as an elderly spinster, [3] [4] she is one of Christie's best-known characters and has been portrayed numerous times on screen.
Agatha Christie herself exists in her fictional universe, as she is mentioned by a character in the Miss Marple novel The Body in the Library. In The Labours of Hercules , a character imagines a friendship between the mother of Hercule Poirot and his supposed brother Achille, and the mother of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes , perhaps implying that ...
Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss expanded on George R.R. Martin's novels to give audiences six seasons of complex and exciting characters. Now, it's time for a new group of ...
Oliver Robert Ford Davies [1] [a] was born in Ealing, Middlesex, England on 12 August 1939. [3] His father was a teacher. [4]He attended the King's School, Canterbury. [citation needed] Aged 11, he performed in a school play, Richard of Bordeaux, and found that he "liked being someone else". [4]
Mathew Frazer Horne (born 6 September 1978) is an English actor, comedian, singer, television presenter and narrator. He is best known for appearing on several BBC sketch shows and sitcoms, most notably Gavin & Stacey (as Gavin Shipman), The Catherine Tate Show, Horne & Corden, and Bad Education.
The appearance of Miss Marple in Murder at the Vicarage provided detective fiction with a new and distinctive character. Miss Marple, that delightfully clever village spinster who solves the most amazing mysteries quietly and unobtrusively from her chair by the fireside, appears in each of the stories comprising The Thirteen Problems .
Miss Marple, titled Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the series, is a British television series based on the Miss Marple murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie, starring Joan Hickson in the title role. It aired from 26 December 1984 to 27 December 1992 on BBC One. All twelve original Miss Marple novels by Christie were dramatised.