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