Joan Hickson
Acting • Born 1906-08-05 – Died 1998-10-17
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 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
152 credits
Murder She Said
Movie • 1961
Mrs. Kidder
Friends
Movie • 1971
Lady in Bookstore
Carry On Constable
Movie • 1960
Mrs. May
Yanks
Movie • 1979
Mrs. Moody
Sailors Don't Care
Movie • 1940
Woman Carried Ashore (uncredited)
Carry On Regardless
Movie • 1961
Matron
Carry On Girls
Movie • 1973
Mrs. Dukes
The House Across the Lake
Movie • 1954
Mrs. Hardcastle
I See a Dark Stranger
Movie • 1946
Hotel Manageress
Theatre of Blood
Movie • 1973
Mrs. Sprout
Second Thoughts
Movie • 1938
Ellen
The Card
Movie • 1952
Mrs. Codleyn
Happy Is the Bride
Movie • 1958
Mrs. Bowles
Raising the Wind
Movie • 1961
Mrs. Bostwick
Seven Days to Noon
Movie • 1950
Mrs. Emily Georgina Peckett
That's Carry On!
Movie • 1977
Sister / Mrs. May (archive footage)
The Magnet
Movie • 1950
Mrs Ward
The Taming of the Shrew
Movie • 1980
Widow
Please Turn Over
Movie • 1959
Saleswoman
So Well Remembered
Movie • 1947
Mother (uncredited)
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
Movie • 1968
Landlady
Dracula
Movie • 1968
Mrs. Weston
No Kidding
Movie • 1960
Cook
I See Ice
Movie • 1938
Receptionist
I Thank a Fool
Movie • 1962
Landlady
High Treason
Movie • 1951
Mrs. Ellis
The Rake's Progress
Movie • 1945
Miss Parker
Nurse on Wheels
Movie • 1963
Mrs. Wood
Value for Money
Movie • 1955
Mrs. Perkins
Doctor at Sea
Movie • 1955
Mrs. Thomas
Deadly Nightshade
Movie • 1953
Mrs. Fenton
Bedroom Farce
Movie • 1980
Delia
The Extra Day
Movie • 1956
Mrs. West
Not At All
Movie
Mrs. K
Hindle Wakes
Movie • 1952
Mrs Hawthorn
Don't Take It to Heart
Movie • 1944
Mrs. Pike
Carry On Nurse
Movie • 1959
Sister
His and Hers
Movie • 1961
Phoebe
Daylight Robbery
Movie • 1986
Bea
Century
Movie • 1993
Mrs. Whitweather
Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
Movie • 1986
Miss Marple
Barnacle Bill
Movie • 1957
Mrs. Kent
The Wicked Lady
Movie • 1983
Aunt Agatha
Freedom Radio
Movie • 1941
Katie
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Movie • 1975
Mrs Gibbons
Dance Little Lady
Movie • 1954
Mrs. Matthews
As Long as They're Happy
Movie • 1955
Barmaid
The Horse's Mouth
Movie • 1958
Lady in Gallery Queue (uncredited)
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Movie • 1936
Effie
Rough Shoot
Movie • 1953
Station Announcer
Just William's Luck
Movie • 1947
Mrs. Lane
A Ferry Ride Away
Movie • 1981
Mrs. Massie
Clockwise
Movie • 1986
Mrs. Ellie Trellis
South Riding
Movie • 1974
The 39 Steps
Movie • 1959
Miss Dobson
Law and Disorder
Movie • 1958
Aunt Florence
Doctor in Love
Movie • 1960
Nurse (uncredited)
No Time for Tears
Movie • 1957
Sister Duckworth
Doctor in the House
Movie • 1954
Mrs. Groaker
Port of Escape
Movie • 1956
Rosalie Watchett
What Every Woman Wants
Movie • 1954
Polly Ann Hadley
Heavens Above!
Movie • 1963
Housewife
Lost
Movie • 1956
Chemist
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
Movie • 1991
Miss Marple
Wedding Bells
Movie • 1976
Double Trouble
Movie • 1976
The Big Kick
Movie • 1976
Baby Sitters
Movie • 1976
On the Tiles
Movie • 1976
Monkey Tricks
Movie • 1976
Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Movie • 1992
Miss Marple
Carry On Admiral
Movie • 1957
Mother
Child in the House
Movie • 1956
Cook
Carry On Loving
Movie • 1970
Mrs Grubb
Tall Headlines
Movie • 1952
The Waitress
Upstairs and Downstairs
Movie • 1959
Rosemary
Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora
Movie • 1949
Emily Haldane
In the Doghouse
Movie • 1962
Miss Gibbs
The Magic Box
Movie • 1952
Mrs Stukely
Marry Me
Movie • 1949
Mrs. Pearson
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Movie • 1980
Mrs. Rivington
Love from a Stranger
Movie • 1937
Emmy
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Movie • 1972
Grace
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
Movie • 1987
Miss Jane Marple
Confessions of a Window Cleaner
Movie • 1974
Mrs. Radlett
The Guinea Pig
Movie • 1948
Mrs. Read
The Last Man to Hang
Movie • 1956
Mrs. Prynne
The Million Pound Note
Movie • 1954
Maggie
Mad About Men
Movie • 1954
Mrs. Forster
Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Movie • 1976
Mother
A Time to Kill
Movie • 1955
Miss Edinger
To Dorothy, a Son
Movie • 1954
Pub Landlady
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
Movie • 1989
Miss Marple
Curtain Up
Movie • 1952
Harry's Landlady
Bond Street
Movie • 1948
Seamstress
Chain of Events
Movie • 1958
Barmaid
Love in Pawn
Movie • 1953
Woman in Telephone Box (Uncredited)
Crooks Anonymous
Movie • 1962
Simon and Laura
Movie • 1955
Barmaid
The Crowded Day
Movie • 1954
Mrs. Jones
I Live in Grosvenor Square
Movie • 1945
Minor role (uncredited)
The Trojan Brothers
Movie • 1946
Ada
Jumping for Joy
Movie • 1956
Lady Emily Cranfield
The Man Who Never Was
Movie • 1956
Landlady
Come Back Peter
Movie • 1952
Mrs. Harris
An Alligator Named Daisy
Movie • 1955
Piano Customer (uncredited)
King of the Wind
Movie • 1990
Duchess of Marlborough
Angels One Five
Movie • 1952
Housekeeper (Uncredited)
When We Are Married
Movie • 1949
Mrs. Northrop
This Was a Woman
Movie • 1948
Miss Johnson
Maggie
Movie • 1964
Maggie's mother
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
Movie • 1990
Narrator
Hell Is Sold Out
Movie • 1951
Hortense
Widow's Might
Movie • 1935
Burroughs
What's a Carry On?
Movie • 1998
Sister / Mrs. Dukes (archive footage) (uncredited)
After Loch Lomond
Movie
Nancy
Tunes of Glory
Movie • 1960
Guest at Party (uncredited)
Just in Time for Christmas
Movie • 1972
Mrs. Hope-Rising
For King and Country: Out There
Movie • 1963
Mrs. Hudd
Budgie
TV • 1971
Edith Broughton
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
TV • 1973
Mrs. Chambers
The Gentle Touch
TV • 1980
No Hiding Place
TV • 1959
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Mother
From a Bird's Eye View
TV • 1970
Hilda Tuttle
Lady Killers
TV • 1980
Carrie Esther Rapley
Barnaby Rudge
TV • 1960
Our Man At St Mark's
TV • 1963
Ooh La La!
TV • 1968
Miss Marple: The Body in the Library
TV • 1984
Miss Marple
Miss Marple: The Moving Finger
TV • 1985
Miss Marple
Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
TV • 1985
Miss Jane Marple
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
TV • 1985
Miss Jane Marple
Miss Marple: Nemesis
TV • 1987
Miss Jane Marple
Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
TV • 1987
Miss Jane Marple
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
TV • 1987
Miss Jane Marple
Time for Murder
TV • 1985
Miss Wainwright
Crown Court
TV • 1972
Elizabeth Penn
Dixon of Dock Green
TV • 1955
Elsie Francis
Danger Man
TV • 1960
Mrs. Curtis
Sykes
TV • 1972
Nurse
Charlesworth at Large
TV • 1958
Miss Frisby
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Mrs. Moore /Mrs. Bateman
Under And Over
TV • 1971
Great Expectations
TV • 1981
Miss Havisham
Poor Little Rich Girls
TV • 1984
Lady Harriet
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Elsie Amble
Our Mutual Friend
TV • 1976
Abbey Potterson
Sinister Street
TV • 1969
Mrs Cleghorne
Mystery and Imagination
TV • 1966
Mrs Weston
Good Girl
TV • 1974
Mrs Morrow
Strangers
TV • 1978
Miss Robinson