George Pollock

GEORGE POLLOCK d1979. British film director best known for bringing Agatha Christie's detective Miss Marple to the big screen for the first time, starring Margaret Rutherford. He collaborated in the 1940s with David Lean on such films as ; Brief Encounter (1945) / Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948). His first film as director was Stranger in Town in 1957. However, he is best remembered for bringing the Agatha Christie character Miss Marple to the big screen for the first time in 1961 with Murder She Said. He directed three more Miss Marple adaptations ; Murder at the Gallop (1963) / Murder Most Foul (1964) and Murder Ahoy (1964). He also directed a 1965 adaptation of Christie's Ten Little Indians