Joan Hickson
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.
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Acted in
Poor Little Rich Girls
2004
Century
1993
as Mrs. Whitweather
Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
1992
as Miss Marple
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
1991
as Miss Marple
King of the Wind
1990
as Duchess of Marlborough
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
1989
as Miss Marple
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
1987
as Miss Jane Marple
Miss Marple: Nemesis
1987
as Miss Jane Marple
Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
1987
as Miss Jane Marple
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
1987
as Miss Jane Marple
Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
1986
as Miss Marple
Daylight Robbery
1986
as Bea
Clockwise
1986
as Mrs. Ellie Trellis
Time for Murder
1985
as Miss Wainwright
Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
1985
as Miss Jane Marple
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
1985
as Miss Jane Marple
Miss Marple: The Moving Finger
1985
as Miss Marple
Miss Marple: The Body in the Library
1984
as Miss Marple
Miss Marple
1984
as Miss Marple
The Wicked Lady
1983
as Aunt Agatha
Great Expectations
1981
as Miss Havisham
A Ferry Ride Away
1981
as Mrs. Massie
The Taming of the Shrew
1980
as Widow
Bedroom Farce
1980
as Delia
Lady Killers
1980
as Carrie Esther Rapley
The Gentle Touch
1980
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
1980
as Mrs. Rivington
Yanks
1979
as Mrs. Moody
BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
That's Carry On!
1977
as Various Characters
Tiptoe Through the Tulips
1976
as Mother
Wedding Bells
1976
On the Tiles
1976
The Big Kick
1976
Double Trouble
1976
Baby Sitters
1976
Monkey Tricks
1976
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
1975
as Mrs Gibbons
South Riding
1974
Confessions of a Window Cleaner
1974
as Mrs. Radlett
Good Girl
1974
Within These Walls
1974
Carry On Girls
1973
as Mrs. Dukes
Theatre of Blood
1973
as Mrs. Sprout
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
1973
as Mrs. Chambers
Crown Court
1972
as Elizabeth Penn
Sykes
1972
as Nurse
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
1972
as Grace
Budgie
1971
Friends
1971
as Lady in Bookstore
Play for Today
1970
as Mother
Carry On Loving
1970
as Mrs Grubb
From a Bird's Eye View
1970
as Hilda Tuttle
Dracula
1968
as Mrs Weston
Ooh La La!
1968
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
1968
as Landlady
Mystery and Imagination
1966
Maggie
1964
as Maggie's mother
Our Man At St Mark's
1963
Heavens Above!
1963
as Housewife
Nurse on Wheels
1963
as Mrs. Wood
I Thank a Fool
1962
as Landlady
In the Doghouse
1962
as Miss Gibbs
Crooks Anonymous
1962
Murder She Said
1961
as Mrs. Kidder
Raising the Wind
1961
as Mrs. Bostwick
Carry On Regardless
1961
as Matron
His and Hers
1961
as Phoebe
No Kidding
1960
as Cook
Barnaby Rudge
1960
Danger Man
1960
as Mrs. Curtis
Doctor in Love
1960
as Nurse (uncredited)
Carry On Constable
1960
as Mrs. May
Please Turn Over
1959
as Saleswoman
Upstairs and Downstairs
1959
as Rosemary
No Hiding Place
1959
The 39 Steps
1959
as Miss Dobson
Carry On Nurse
1959
as Matron
The Horse's Mouth
1958
as Lady in Gallery Queue
Chain of Events
1958
as Barmaid
Law and Disorder
1958
as Aunt Florence
Happy Is the Bride
1958
as Mrs. Bowles
Barnacle Bill
1957
as Mrs. Kent
No Time for Tears
1957
as Sister Duckworth
Carry on Admiral
1957
as Mother
Child in the House
1956
as Cook
The Last Man to Hang
1956
as Mrs. Prynne
Port of Escape
1956
as Rosalie Watchett
The Man Who Never Was
1956
as Landlady
Lost
1956
as Chemist (Uncredited)
The Extra Day
1956
as Mrs. West
Jumping for Joy
1956
as Lady Emily Cranfield
An Alligator Named Daisy
1955
as Piano Customer (uncredited)
Simon and Laura
1955
as Barmaid
A Time to Kill
1955
as Miss Edinger
Value for Money
1955
as Mrs. Perkins
Doctor at Sea
1955
as Mrs. Thomas
Dixon of Dock Green
1955
as Elsie Francis
As Long as They're Happy
1955
as Barmaid
Mad About Men
1954
as Mrs. Forster
To Dorothy, a Son
1954
as Pub Landlady
The Crowded Day
1954
as Mrs. Jones
Dance Little Lady
1954
as Mrs. Matthews
What Every Woman Wants
1954
as Polly Ann Hadley
The House Across the Lake
1954
as Mrs. Hardcastle
Doctor in the House
1954
as Mrs. Groaker
The Million Pound Note
1954
as Maggie
Love in Pawn
1953
as Woman in Telephone Box (Uncredited)
Rough Shoot
1953
as Station Announcer
Deadly Nightshade
1953
as Mrs. Fenton
Hindle Wakes
1952
as Mrs Hawthorn
Come Back Peter
1952
as Mrs. Harris
Tall Headlines
1952
as The Waitress
Angels One Five
1952
as Housekeeper (Uncredited)
Curtain Up
1952
as Harry's Landlady
The Card
1952
as Mrs. Codleyn
The Magic Box
1952
as Mrs Stukely
High Treason
1951
as Mrs. Ellis
Seven Days to Noon
1950
as Mrs. Emily Georgina Peckett
The Magnet
1950
as Mrs Ward
Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora
1949
as Emily Haldane
When We Are Married
1949
as Mrs. Northrop
Marry Me
1949
as Mrs. Pearson
The Guinea Pig
1948
as Mrs. Read
Bond Street
1948
as Seamstress
This Was a Woman
1948
as Miss Johnson
Just William's Luck
1947
as Mrs. Lane
So Well Remembered
1947
as Mother (uncredited)
I See a Dark Stranger
1946
as Hotel Manageress
The Trojan Brothers
1946
as Ada
The Rake's Progress
1945
as Miss Parker
I Live in Grosvenor Square
1945
as Minor role (uncredited)
Don't Take It to Heart
1944
as Mrs. Pike
Freedom Radio
1941
as Katie
Sailors Don't Care
1940
as Woman Carried Ashore
I See Ice
1938
as Receptionist
Second Thoughts
1938
as Ellen
Love from a Stranger
1937
as Emmy
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
1936
as Effie
Not At All
as Mrs. K