Joan Hickson
Acting
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
TV Shows(37)
Miss Marple: Nemesis
Miss Jane Marple
1987
Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
Miss Jane Marple
1987
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
Miss Jane Marple
1987
Time for Murder
Miss Wainwright
1985
Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
Miss Jane Marple
1985
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
Miss Jane Marple
1985
Miss Marple: The Moving Finger
Miss Marple
1985
Miss Marple: The Body in the Library
Miss Marple
1984
Miss Marple
Miss Jane Marple
1984
Poor Little Rich Girls
Lady Harriet
1984
Great Expectations
Miss Havisham
1981
Lady Killers
Carrie Esther Rapley
1980
The Gentle Touch
1980
Strangers
Miss Robinson
1978
Our Mutual Friend
Abbey Potterson
1976
Good Girl
Mrs Morrow
1974
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Mrs. Chambers
1973
Crown Court
Elizabeth Penn
1972
Sykes
Nurse
1972
Under And Over
1971
Budgie
Edith Broughton
1971
Play for Today
Mother
1970
From a Bird's Eye View
Hilda Tuttle
1970
Sinister Street
Mrs Cleghorne
1969
Ooh La La!
1968
ITV Playhouse
Matron
1967
Mystery and Imagination
Mrs Weston
1966
Theatre 625
Elsie Amble
1964
Espionage
Sara Forsythe
1963
Our Man At St Mark's
1963
Barnaby Rudge
1960
Danger Man
Mrs. Curtis
1960
No Hiding Place
1959
Charlesworth at Large
Miss Frisby
1958
Armchair Theatre
Mrs. Monkstown
1956
Dixon of Dock Green
Elsie Francis
1955
Sunday Night Theatre
Mrs. Moore /Mrs. Bateman
1950
Movies(119)
What's a Carry On?
Sister / Mrs. Dukes (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998
Century
Mrs. Whitweather
1993
Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Miss Marple
1992
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
Miss Marple
1991
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
Narrator
1990
King of the Wind
Duchess of Marlborough
1990
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
Miss Marple
1989
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
Miss Jane Marple
1987
Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
Miss Marple
1986
Daylight Robbery
Bea
1986
Clockwise
Mrs. Ellie Trellis
1986
The Wicked Lady
Aunt Agatha
1983
A Ferry Ride Away
Mrs. Massie
1981
The Taming of the Shrew
Widow
1980
Bedroom Farce
Delia
1980
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Mrs. Rivington
1980
Yanks
Mrs. Moody
1979
That's Carry On!
Sister / Mrs. May (archive footage)
1977
Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Mother
1976
Wedding Bells
1976
Double Trouble
1976
The Big Kick
1976
Baby Sitters
1976
On the Tiles
1976
Monkey Tricks
1976
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Mrs Gibbons
1975
South Riding
1974
Confessions of a Window Cleaner
Mrs. Radlett
1974
Carry On Girls
Mrs. Dukes
1973
Theatre of Blood
Mrs. Sprout
1973
Just in Time for Christmas
Mrs. Hope-Rising
1972
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Grace
1972
Friends
Lady in Bookstore
1971
Carry On Loving
Mrs Grubb
1970
Dracula
Mrs. Weston
1968
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
Landlady
1968
Maggie
Maggie's mother
1964
For King and Country: Out There
Mrs. Hudd
1963
Heavens Above!
Housewife
1963
Nurse on Wheels
Mrs. Wood
1963
I Thank a Fool
Landlady
1962
In the Doghouse
Miss Gibbs
1962
Crooks Anonymous
1962
Murder She Said
Mrs. Kidder
1961
Raising the Wind
Mrs. Bostwick
1961
Carry On Regardless
Matron
1961
His and Hers
Phoebe
1961
No Kidding
Cook
1960
Tunes of Glory
Guest at Party (uncredited)
1960
Doctor in Love
Nurse (uncredited)
1960
Carry On Constable
Mrs. May
1960
Please Turn Over
Saleswoman
1959
Upstairs and Downstairs
Rosemary
1959
The 39 Steps
Miss Dobson
1959
Carry On Nurse
Sister
1959
The Horse's Mouth
Lady in Gallery Queue (uncredited)
1958
Chain of Events
Barmaid
1958
Law and Disorder
Aunt Florence
1958
Happy Is the Bride
Mrs. Bowles
1958
Barnacle Bill
Mrs. Kent
1957
No Time for Tears
Sister Duckworth
1957
Carry On Admiral
Mother
1957
Child in the House
Cook
1956
The Last Man to Hang
Mrs. Prynne
1956
Port of Escape
Rosalie Watchett
1956
The Man Who Never Was
Landlady
1956
Lost
Chemist
1956
The Extra Day
Mrs. West
1956
Jumping for Joy
Lady Emily Cranfield
1956
An Alligator Named Daisy
Piano Customer (uncredited)
1955
Simon and Laura
Barmaid
1955
A Time to Kill
Miss Edinger
1955
Value for Money
Mrs. Perkins
1955
Doctor at Sea
Mrs. Thomas
1955
As Long as They're Happy
Barmaid
1955
Mad About Men
Mrs. Forster
1954
To Dorothy, a Son
Pub Landlady
1954
The Crowded Day
Mrs. Jones
1954
Dance Little Lady
Mrs. Matthews
1954
What Every Woman Wants
Polly Ann Hadley
1954
The House Across the Lake
Mrs. Hardcastle
1954
Doctor in the House
Mrs. Groaker
1954
The Million Pound Note
Maggie
1954
Love in Pawn
Woman in Telephone Box (Uncredited)
1953
Rough Shoot
Station Announcer
1953
Deadly Nightshade
Mrs. Fenton
1953
Hindle Wakes
Mrs Hawthorn
1952
Come Back Peter
Mrs. Harris
1952
Tall Headlines
The Waitress
1952
Angels One Five
Housekeeper (Uncredited)
1952
Curtain Up
Harry's Landlady
1952
The Card
Mrs. Codleyn
1952
The Magic Box
Mrs Stukely
1952
High Treason
Mrs. Ellis
1951
Hell Is Sold Out
Hortense
1951
Seven Days to Noon
Mrs. Emily Georgina Peckett
1950
The Magnet
Mrs Ward
1950
Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora
Emily Haldane
1949
When We Are Married
Mrs. Northrop
1949
Marry Me
Mrs. Pearson
1949
The Guinea Pig
Mrs. Read
1948
Bond Street
Seamstress
1948
This Was a Woman
Miss Johnson
1948
Just William's Luck
Mrs. Lane
1947
So Well Remembered
Mother (uncredited)
1947
I See a Dark Stranger
Hotel Manageress
1946
The Trojan Brothers
Ada
1946
The Rake's Progress
Miss Parker
1945
I Live in Grosvenor Square
Minor role (uncredited)
1945
Don't Take It to Heart
Mrs. Pike
1944
Freedom Radio
Katie
1941
Sailors Don't Care
Woman Carried Ashore (uncredited)
1940
I See Ice
Receptionist
1938
Second Thoughts
Ellen
1938
Love from a Stranger
Emmy
1937
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Effie
1936
Widow's Might
Burroughs
1935
Not At All
Mrs. K
After Loch Lomond
Nancy