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