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Joan Hickson

Joan Hickson

Actor · Born 1906-08-05 · Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK

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Biography

Joan Bogle Hickson OBE (5 August 1906 – 17 October 1998) was an English actress of theatre, film and television. She was known for her role as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the television series Miss Marple. As well as portraying Miss Marple on television, Hickson also narrated a number of Miss Marple stories on audio books. Born in Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Hickson was a daughter of Edith Mary (née Bogle) and Alfred Harold Hickson, a shoe manufacturer. Boarding at Oldfield School at Swanage in Dorset she went on to train at RADA in London. Making her stage debut in 1927, she worked for several years throughout the United Kingdom and achieved success playing comedic, often eccentric characters in London's West End, including the role of the cockney maid Ida in the original production of See How They Run, at the Q Theatre in 1944, and then at the Comedy Theatre in January 1945. She made her first film appearance in 1934. The numerous supporting roles of her career included several Carry On films including Sister in Carry On Nurse and Mrs May in Carry On Constable. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Theatre of Blood (1973) — Mrs. Sprout
  2. Murder She Said (1961) — Mrs. Kidder
  3. Clockwise (1986) — Mrs. Ellie Trellis
  4. The Man Who Never Was (1956) — Landlady
  5. The Million Pound Note (1954) — Maggie
  6. Tunes of Glory (1960) — Guest at Party (uncredited)
  7. Yanks (1979) — Mrs. Moody
  8. Carry On Girls (1973) — Mrs. Dukes
  9. Carry On Nurse (1959) — Sister
  10. Carry On Constable (1960) — Mrs. May
  11. Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986) — Miss Marple
  12. Carry On Regardless (1961) — Matron
  13. One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975) — Mrs Gibbons
  14. Carry On Loving (1970) — Mrs Grubb
  15. The Horse's Mouth (1958) — Lady in Gallery Queue (uncredited)
  16. Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington (1987) — Miss Jane Marple
  17. Miss Marple: Nemesis (1987) — Miss Jane Marple
  18. Miss Marple: The Body in the Library (1984) — Miss Marple
  19. Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors (1991) — Miss Marple
  20. Seven Days to Noon (1950) — Mrs. Emily Georgina Peckett
  21. Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987) — Miss Jane Marple
  22. The Card (1952) — Mrs. Codleyn
  23. Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery (1989) — Miss Marple
  24. Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye (1985) — Miss Jane Marple
  25. Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel (1987) — Miss Jane Marple
  26. Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1992) — Miss Marple
  27. Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974) — Mrs. Radlett
  28. The 39 Steps (1959) — Miss Dobson
  29. Miss Marple: The Moving Finger (1985) — Miss Marple
  30. Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced (1985) — Miss Jane Marple
  31. Angels One Five (1952) — Housekeeper (Uncredited)
  32. Doctor in the House (1954) — Mrs. Groaker
  33. The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936) — Effie
  34. The House Across the Lake (1954) — Mrs. Hardcastle
  35. Heavens Above! (1963) — Housewife
  36. Friends (1971) — Lady in Bookstore
  37. I See a Dark Stranger (1946) — Hotel Manageress
  38. That's Carry On! (1977) — Sister / Mrs. May (archive footage)
  39. Doctor at Sea (1955) — Mrs. Thomas
  40. The Wicked Lady (1983) — Aunt Agatha