Murder by Death (1976)

06/23/1976 1h 34m

By the time the world's greatest detectives figure out whodunnit... you could die laughing!

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Overview

Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.

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Cast Ages at Release

Truman Capote

as Lionel Twain

Born 09/30/1924

Died 08/25/1984, age

Alec Guinness

as Bensonmum

Born 04/02/1914

Died 08/05/2000, age

Peter Sellers

as Sidney Wang

Born 09/08/1925

Died 07/24/1980, age

David Niven

as Dick Charleston

Born 02/28/1910

Died 07/29/1983, age

Maggie Smith

as Dora Charleston

Born 12/28/1934, age

James Coco

as Milo Perrier

Born 03/21/1930

Died 02/25/1987, age

Peter Falk

as Sam Diamond

Born 09/16/1927

Died 06/23/2011, age

Eileen Brennan

as Tess Skeffington

Born 09/03/1932

Died 07/28/2013, age

Elsa Lanchester

as Jessica Marbles

Born 10/28/1902

Died 12/26/1986, age

Nancy Walker

as Maid

Born 05/10/1922

Died 03/25/1992, age

James Cromwell

as Marcel Cassette

Born 01/27/1940, age

Fay Wray

as Door Bell (archive sound) (uncredited)

Born 09/15/1907

Died 08/08/2004, age