Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 05, 1906
Died
Oct 17, 1998
Place of Birth
Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
Credits
163 titles
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. 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
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
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
Baby Sitters
On the Tiles
The Big Kick
Wedding Bells
Double Trouble
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
Carry On Girls
Mrs. Dukes
Theatre of Blood
Mrs. Sprout