Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures

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Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
Genre	Docudrama
Written by	Richard Curson Smith
Directed by	Richard Curson Smith
Starring	Olivia Williams Anna Massey Raymond Coulthard
Composer	Andrew Phillips
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Jacquie Hughes Leanne Klein
Producer	Colette Flight
Running time	90 minutes
Original release
Network	BBC Two
Release	22 September 2004 (2004-09-22)
Related
George Orwell: A Life in Pictures Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes H. G. Wells: War with the World

Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures is a 2004 BBC Television docudrama telling the life story of the British crime-writer Agatha Christie in her words.

Cast

Olivia Williams as Agatha Christie
- Anna Massey as older Agatha Christie
- Bonnie Wright as younger Agatha Christie
Raymond Coulthard as Archie Christie
Stephen Boxer as Psychiatrist
Anthony O'Donnell as DCC William Kenward and Hercule Poirot
Mark Gatiss as Kenyon
Richard Leaf as Gunman
Celia Montague as Clarissa Miller
Vicki Pepperdine as Carlo Fisher
Bertie Carvel as Max Mallowan
Rosa Curson Smith as Rosalind
Olivia Darnley as Nurse
Edmund Kingsley as Soldier
Tim McMullan as Pharmacist
James Tucker as Reggie
Laura Maclaine as Maid
Gregory Finnegan as Band Member
Cara Chase as Woman on Train

External links

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Characters	Superintendent Battle Tommy and Tuppence Beresford Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent Sir Henry Clithering Captain Arthur Hastings Chief Inspector James Japp Miss Jane Marple Ariadne Oliver Hercule Poirot Parker Pyne Mr. Harley Quin Raymond West
Locations	St. Mary Mead
Novels	The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Secret Adversary The Murder on the Links The Man in the Brown Suit The Secret of Chimneys The Murder of Roger Ackroyd The Big Four The Mystery of the Blue Train The Seven Dials Mystery The Murder at the Vicarage The Sittaford Mystery Peril at End House Lord Edgware Dies Murder on the Orient Express Why Didn't They Ask Evans? Three Act Tragedy Death in the Clouds The A.B.C. Murders Murder in Mesopotamia Cards on the Table Dumb Witness Death on the Nile Appointment with Death Hercule Poirot's Christmas Murder Is Easy And Then There Were None Sad Cypress One, Two, Buckle My Shoe Evil Under the Sun N or M? The Body in the Library Five Little Pigs The Moving Finger Towards Zero Death Comes as the End Sparkling Cyanide The Hollow Taken at the Flood Crooked House A Murder Is Announced They Came to Baghdad Mrs McGinty's Dead They Do It with Mirrors After the Funeral A Pocket Full of Rye Destination Unknown Hickory Dickory Dock Dead Man's Folly 4.50 from Paddington Ordeal by Innocence Cat Among the Pigeons The Pale Horse The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side The Clocks A Caribbean Mystery At Bertram's Hotel Third Girl Endless Night By the Pricking of My Thumbs Hallowe'en Party Passenger to Frankfurt Nemesis Elephants Can Remember Postern of Fate Curtain Sleeping Murder
As Mary Westmacott	Giant's Bread Unfinished Portrait Absent in the Spring The Rose and the Yew Tree A Daughter's a Daughter The Burden
Short story collections	Poirot Investigates Partners in Crime The Mysterious Mr Quin The Thirteen Problems The Hound of Death The Listerdale Mystery Parker Pyne Investigates Murder in the Mews The Regatta Mystery The Labours of Hercules The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories Three Blind Mice and Other Stories The Under Dog and Other Stories The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding Double Sin and Other Stories The Golden Ball and Other Stories Poirot's Early Cases Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories The Harlequin Tea Set While the Light Lasts and Other Stories
Plays	Black Coffee And Then There Were None Appointment with Death Murder on the Nile The Hollow The Mousetrap Witness for the Prosecution Spider's Web Towards Zero Verdict The Unexpected Guest Go Back for Murder Fiddlers Three Akhnaton Chimneys
Radio and television plays	Wasp's Nest The Yellow Iris Three Blind Mice Butter in a Lordly Dish Personal Call
Other books	The Road of Dreams Come, Tell Me How You Live Star Over Bethlehem Poems An Autobiography The Mousetrap and Other Plays Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks
Depictions	Agatha Christie Memorial Agatha (1979 film) Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures (2004 docudrama) The Unicorn and the Wasp (2008 TV episode) Agatha and the Truth of Murder (2018 film) Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar (2019 film) Agatha and the Midnight Murders (2020 film) See How They Run (2022 film)
Related	Archie Christie (first husband) Max Mallowan (second husband) Ashfield, Torquay (home) Greenway Estate (home) Agatha Award Agatha Christie Award (Japan)
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