Joan Hickson

Acting

Born August 5, 1906, 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

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