
Joan Hickson
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.
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Acting (103 movies)

Murder She Said
1961

Friends
1971

Carry On Constable
1960

Yanks
1979

Sailors Don't Care
1940

Carry On Regardless
1961

Carry On Girls
1973

The House Across the Lake
1954

I See a Dark Stranger
1946

Theatre of Blood
1973

Second Thoughts
1938

The Card
1952

Happy Is the Bride
1958

Raising the Wind
1961

Seven Days to Noon
1950

That's Carry On!
1977

The Magnet
1950

The Taming of the Shrew
1980

Please Turn Over
1959

So Well Remembered
1947

Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
1968

Dracula
1968

No Kidding
1960

I See Ice
1938

I Thank a Fool
1962

High Treason
1951

The Rake's Progress
1945

Nurse on Wheels
1963

Value for Money
1955

Doctor at Sea
1955

Deadly Nightshade
1953

The Extra Day
1956

Hindle Wakes
1952

Don't Take It to Heart
1944

Carry On Nurse
1959

His and Hers
1961

Daylight Robbery
1986

Century
1993

Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
1986

Barnacle Bill
1957

The Wicked Lady
1983

Freedom Radio
1941

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
1975

Dance Little Lady
1954

As Long as They're Happy
1955

The Horse's Mouth
1958

The Man Who Could Work Miracles
1936

Rough Shoot
1953

Just William's Luck
1947

Clockwise
1986

South Riding
1974

The 39 Steps
1959

Law and Disorder
1958

Doctor in Love
1960

No Time for Tears
1957

Doctor in the House
1954

Port of Escape
1956

What Every Woman Wants
1954

Heavens Above!
1963

Lost
1956

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
1991

Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
1992

Carry On Admiral
1957

Child in the House
1956

Carry On Loving
1970

Tall Headlines
1952

Upstairs and Downstairs
1959

Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora
1949

In the Doghouse
1962

The Magic Box
1952

Marry Me
1949

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
1980

Love from a Stranger
1937

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
1972

Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
1987

Confessions of a Window Cleaner
1974

The Guinea Pig
1948

The Last Man to Hang
1956

The Million Pound Note
1954

Mad About Men
1954

Tiptoe Through the Tulips
1976

A Time to Kill
1955

To Dorothy, a Son
1954

Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
1989

Curtain Up
1952

Bond Street
1948

Chain of Events
1958

Love in Pawn
1953

Crooks Anonymous
1962

Simon and Laura
1955

The Crowded Day
1954

I Live in Grosvenor Square
1945

Jumping for Joy
1956

The Man Who Never Was
1956

Come Back Peter
1952

An Alligator Named Daisy
1955

King of the Wind
1990

Angels One Five
1952

This Was a Woman
1948

Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
1990
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