Joan Hickson
- Acting
- August 5, 1906 · Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
- October 17, 1998
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
Known for
Filmography
- What's a Carry On? · Sister / Mrs. Dukes (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Century · Mrs. Whitweather
- Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side · Miss Marple
- Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors · Miss Marple
- Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait · Narrator
- King of the Wind · Duchess of Marlborough
- Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery · Miss Marple
- Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington · Miss Jane Marple
- Miss Marple: Nemesis · Miss Jane Marple
- Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel · Miss Jane Marple
- Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder · Miss Jane Marple
- Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage · Miss Marple
- Daylight Robbery · Bea
- ScreenPlay · Bea
- Clockwise · Mrs. Ellie Trellis
- Boon · Delia
- Time for Murder · Miss Wainwright
- Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye · Miss Jane Marple
- Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced · Miss Jane Marple
- Miss Marple: The Moving Finger · Miss Marple
- Screen Two · Mrs. Whiteweather
- Miss Marple: The Body in the Library · Miss Marple
- Miss Marple · Miss Marple
- Poor Little Rich Girls · Lady Harriet
- Round And Round
- The Wicked Lady · Aunt Agatha
- Great Expectations · Miss Havisham
- A Ferry Ride Away · Mrs. Massie
- The Taming of the Shrew · Widow
- Bedroom Farce · Delia
- Lady Killers · Carrie Esther Rapley
- The Gentle Touch
- Why Didn't They Ask Evans? · Mrs. Rivington
- Yanks · Mrs. Moody
- The BBC Television Shakespeare · Widow
- Strangers · Miss Robinson
- That's Carry On! · Sister / Mrs. May (archive footage)
- Tiptoe Through the Tulips · Mother
- Our Mutual Friend · Abbey Potterson
- Wedding Bells
- Double Trouble
- The Big Kick
- Baby Sitters
- On the Tiles
- Monkey Tricks
- One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing · Mrs Gibbons
- South Riding
- Confessions of a Window Cleaner · Mrs. Radlett
- Good Girl · Mrs Morrow
- Happy Ever After · Mrs Henderson
- Village Hall · Ursula Garfield
- Carry On Girls · Mrs. Dukes
- Theatre of Blood · Mrs. Sprout
- After Loch Lomond · Nancy
- Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? · Mrs. Chambers
- Just in Time for Christmas · Mrs. Hope-Rising
- Crown Court · Elizabeth Penn
- Sykes · Nurse
- A Day in the Death of Joe Egg · Grace
- Under And Over
- Budgie · Edith Broughton
- Friends · Lady in Bookstore
- Play for Today · Mother
- Carry On Loving · Mrs Grubb
- From a Bird's Eye View · Hilda Tuttle
- Who-Dun-It · Miss Mackey
- W. Somerset Maugham · Mrs. Carter
- Sinister Street · Mrs Cleghorne
- Dracula · Mrs. Weston
- Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter · Landlady
- Ooh La La!
- ITV Playhouse · Matron, Mrs. Trix
- NET Playhouse · Mrs. Jenkins
- Mystery and Imagination · Mrs Weston
- Thursday Theatre · Mrs Jenkins
- Theatre 625 · Elsie Amble
- Maggie · Maggie's mother
- Espionage · Sara Forsythe
- Our Man At St Mark's
- For King and Country: Out There · Mrs. Hudd