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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