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