Actor
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 Swanag ...

Known For
Acting
1993 -- Century | Mrs. Whitweather
1992 -- Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side | Miss Marple
1991 -- Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors | Miss Marple
1990 -- Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait | Narrator
1990 -- King of the Wind | Duchess of Marlborough
1989 -- Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery | Miss Marple
1987 -- Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington | Miss Jane Marple
1987 -- Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder | Miss Jane Marple
1986 -- Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage | Miss Marple
1986 -- Daylight Robbery | Bea
1986 -- Clockwise | Mrs. Ellie Trellis
1983 -- The Wicked Lady | Aunt Agatha
1981 -- A Ferry Ride Away | Mrs. Massie
1980 -- The Taming of the Shrew | Widow
1980 -- Bedroom Farce | Delia
1980 -- Why Didn't They Ask Evans? | Mrs. Rivington
1979 -- Yanks | Mrs. Moody
1977 -- That's Carry On! | Various Characters
1976 -- Tiptoe Through the Tulips | Mother
1976 -- Monkey Tricks |
1976 -- On the Tiles |
1976 -- Baby Sitters |
1976 -- Double Trouble |
1976 -- Wedding Bells |
1976 -- The Big Kick |
1975 -- One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing | Mrs Gibbons
1974 -- South Riding |
1974 -- Confessions of a Window Cleaner | Mrs. Radlett
1973 -- Carry On Girls | Mrs. Dukes
1973 -- Theatre of Blood | Mrs. Sprout
1972 -- A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | Grace
1971 -- Friends | Lady in Bookstore
1970 -- Carry On Loving | Mrs Grubb
1968 -- Dracula | Mrs Weston
1968 -- Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter | Landlady
1964 -- Maggie | Maggie's mother
1963 -- Heavens Above! | Housewife
1963 -- Nurse on Wheels | Mrs. Wood
1962 -- I Thank a Fool | Landlady
1962 -- In the Doghouse | Miss Gibbs
1962 -- Crooks Anonymous |
1961 -- Murder She Said | Mrs. Kidder
1961 -- Raising the Wind | Mrs. Bostwick
1961 -- Carry On Regardless | Matron
1961 -- His and Hers | Phoebe
1960 -- No Kidding | Cook
1960 -- Doctor in Love | Nurse
1960 -- Carry On Constable | Mrs. May
1959 -- Please Turn Over | Saleswoman
1959 -- Upstairs and Downstairs | Rosemary
1959 -- The 39 Steps | Miss Dobson
1959 -- Carry On Nurse | Matron
1958 -- 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
1957 -- Barnacle Bill | Mrs. Kent
1957 -- No Time for Tears | Sister Duckworth
1957 -- Carry on Admiral | Mother
1956 -- 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 -- Jumping for Joy | Lady Emily Cranfield
1956 -- The Extra Day | Mrs. West
1955 -- 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
1954 -- 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
1953 -- Love in Pawn | Woman in Telephone Box (Uncredited)
1953 -- Rough Shoot | Station Announcer
1953 -- Deadly Nightshade | Mrs. Fenton
1952 -- 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
1951 -- High Treason | Mrs. Ellis
1951 -- Hell Is Sold Out | Hortense
1950 -- Seven Days to Noon | Mrs. Emily Georgina Peckett
1950 -- The Magnet | Mrs Ward
1949 -- Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora | Emily Haldane
1949 -- When We Are Married | Mrs. Northrop
1949 -- Marry Me | Mrs. Pearson
1948 -- The Guinea Pig | Mrs. Read
1948 -- Bond Street | Seamstress
1948 -- This Was a Woman | Miss Johnson
1947 -- Just William's Luck | Mrs. Lane
1947 -- So Well Remembered | Mother (uncredited)
1946 -- I See a Dark Stranger | Hotel Manageress
1946 -- The Trojan Brothers | Ada
1945 -- The Rake's Progress | Miss Parker
1945 -- I Live in Grosvenor Square | Minor role (uncredited)
1944 -- Don't Take It to Heart | Mrs. Pike
1941 -- Freedom Radio | Katie
1940 -- Sailors Don't Care | Woman Carried Ashore
1938 -- I See Ice | Receptionist
1938 -- Second Thoughts | Ellen
1937 -- Love from a Stranger | Emmy
1936 -- The Man Who Could Work Miracles | Effie
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