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