Joan Hickson
Acting
1906-08-05 · Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
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
Filmography
What's a Carry On?
1998 · Movie
Century
1993 · Movie
Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
1992 · Movie
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
1991 · Movie
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
1990 · Movie
King of the Wind
1990 · Movie
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
1989 · Movie
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
1987 · Movie
Miss Marple: Nemesis
1987 · Series
Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
1987 · Series
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
1987 · Series
Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
1986 · Movie
Daylight Robbery
1986 · Movie
ScreenPlay
1986 · Series
Clockwise
1986 · Movie
Time for Murder
1985 · Series
Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
1985 · Series
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
1985 · Series
Miss Marple: The Moving Finger
1985 · Series
Screen Two
1985 · Series
Miss Marple
1984 · Series
Miss Marple: The Body in the Library
1984 · Series
Poor Little Rich Girls
1984 · Series
Round And Round
1984 · Series
The Wicked Lady
1983 · Movie
Great Expectations
1981 · Series
A Ferry Ride Away
1981 · Movie
The Taming of the Shrew
1980 · Movie
Bedroom Farce
1980 · Movie
Lady Killers
1980 · Series
The Gentle Touch
1980 · Series
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
1980 · Movie
Yanks
1979 · Movie
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978 · Series
Strangers
1978 · Series
That's Carry On!
1977 · Movie
Tiptoe Through the Tulips
1976 · Movie
Our Mutual Friend
1976 · Series
Baby Sitters
1976 · Movie
On the Tiles
1976 · Movie
The Big Kick
1976 · Movie
Double Trouble
1976 · Movie
Wedding Bells
1976 · Movie
Monkey Tricks
1976 · Movie
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
1975 · Movie
South Riding
1974 · Movie
Confessions of a Window Cleaner
1974 · Movie
Good Girl
1974 · Series
Happy Ever After
1974 · Series
Carry On Girls
1973 · Movie
Theatre of Blood
1973 · Movie
After Loch Lomond
1973 · Movie
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
1973 · Series
Just in Time for Christmas
1972 · Movie
Crown Court
1972 · Series
Sykes
1972 · Series
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
1972 · Movie
Under And Over
1971 · Series
Budgie
1971 · Series
Friends
1971 · Movie
Play for Today
1970 · Series
Carry On Loving
1970 · Movie
From a Bird's Eye View
1970 · Series
Who-Dun-It
1969 · Series
W. Somerset Maugham
1969 · Series
Sinister Street
1969 · Series
Dracula
1968 · Movie
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
1968 · Movie
Ooh La La!
1968 · Series
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Series
NET Playhouse
1966 · Series
Mystery and Imagination
1966 · Series
Thursday Theatre
1964 · Series
Theatre 625
1964 · Series
Maggie
1964 · Movie
Espionage
1963 · Series
Our Man At St Mark's
1963 · Series
For King and Country: Out There
1963 · Movie
Heavens Above!
1963 · Movie
Nurse on Wheels
1963 · Movie
I Thank a Fool
1962 · Movie
In the Doghouse
1962 · Movie
Crooks Anonymous
1962 · Movie
Murder She Said
1961 · Movie
Raising the Wind
1961 · Movie
Carry On Regardless
1961 · Movie
His and Hers
1961 · Movie
No Kidding
1960 · Movie
Barnaby Rudge
1960 · Series
Tunes of Glory
1960 · Movie
Danger Man
1960 · Series
Doctor in Love
1960 · Movie
Carry On Constable
1960 · Movie
Please Turn Over
1959 · Movie
Upstairs and Downstairs
1959 · Movie
No Hiding Place
1959 · Series
The 39 Steps
1959 · Movie
Carry On Nurse
1959 · Movie
The Horse's Mouth
1958 · Movie
Chain of Events
1958 · Movie
Charlesworth at Large
1958 · Series
Law and Disorder
1958 · Movie
Happy Is the Bride
1958 · Movie
Barnacle Bill
1957 · Movie
No Time for Tears
1957 · Movie
Carry On Admiral
1957 · Movie
Child in the House
1956 · Movie
The Last Man to Hang
1956 · Movie
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Series
Port of Escape
1956 · Movie
The Man Who Never Was
1956 · Movie
Lost
1956 · Movie
The Extra Day
1956 · Movie
Jumping for Joy
1956 · Movie
An Alligator Named Daisy
1955 · Movie
Simon and Laura
1955 · Movie
A Time to Kill
1955 · Movie
Value for Money
1955 · Movie
Doctor at Sea
1955 · Movie
Dixon of Dock Green
1955 · Series
As Long as They're Happy
1955 · Movie
Mad About Men
1954 · Movie
To Dorothy, a Son
1954 · Movie
The Crowded Day
1954 · Movie
Dance Little Lady
1954 · Movie
What Every Woman Wants
1954 · Movie
The House Across the Lake
1954 · Movie
Doctor in the House
1954 · Movie
The Million Pound Note
1954 · Movie
Love in Pawn
1953 · Movie
Rough Shoot
1953 · Movie
Deadly Nightshade
1953 · Movie
Hindle Wakes
1952 · Movie
Come Back Peter
1952 · Movie
Tall Headlines
1952 · Movie
Angels One Five
1952 · Movie
Curtain Up
1952 · Movie
The Card
1952 · Movie
The Magic Box
1952 · Movie
High Treason
1951 · Movie
Hell Is Sold Out
1951 · Movie
Seven Days to Noon
1950 · Movie
The Magnet
1950 · Movie
Sunday Night Theatre
1950 · Series
Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora
1949 · Movie
When We Are Married
1949 · Movie
Marry Me
1949 · Movie
It's Hard to be Good
1948 · Movie
The Guinea Pig
1948 · Movie
Bond Street
1948 · Movie
This Was a Woman
1948 · Movie
Just William's Luck
1947 · Movie
So Well Remembered
1947 · Movie
I See a Dark Stranger
1946 · Movie
The Trojan Brothers
1946 · Movie
The Rake's Progress
1945 · Movie
I Live in Grosvenor Square
1945 · Movie
Don't Take It to Heart
1944 · Movie
Freedom Radio
1941 · Movie
Sailors Don't Care
1940 · Movie
I See Ice
1938 · Movie
Second Thoughts
1938 · Movie
Love from a Stranger
1937 · Movie
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
1936 · Movie
Widow's Might
1935 · Movie
Not At All
Movie