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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
August 5, 1906
Place of Birth:
Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
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Joan Hickson
Biography
Joan Bogle Hickson OBE 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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Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | What's a Carry On? | Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 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 | King of the Wind | Duchess of Marlborough |
| 1990 | Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait | Narrator |
| 1989 | Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery | Miss Marple |
| 1987 | Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington | Miss Jane Marple |
| 1986 | Daylight Robbery | Bea |
| 1986 | Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage | Miss Marple |
| 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 | The Big Kick | |
| 1976 | Wedding Bells | |
| 1976 | Double Trouble | |
| 1976 | Baby Sitters | |
| 1976 | On the Tiles | |
| 1976 | Monkey Tricks | |
| 1976 | Tiptoe Through the Tulips | Mother |
| 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 | Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter | Landlady |
| 1968 | Dracula | Mrs Weston |
| 1964 | Maggie | Maggie's mother |
| 1963 | Nurse on Wheels | Mrs. Wood |
| 1963 | Heavens Above! | Housewife |
| 1962 | I Thank a Fool | Landlady |
| 1962 | In the Doghouse | Miss Gibbs |
| 1962 | Crooks Anonymous | |
| 1961 | Murder She Said | Mrs. Kidder |
| 1961 | Carry On Regardless | Matron |
| 1961 | Raising the Wind | Mrs. Bostwick |
| 1961 | His and Hers | Phoebe |
| 1960 | Carry On Constable | Mrs. May |
| 1960 | No Kidding | Cook |
| 1960 | Doctor in Love | Nurse |
| 1959 | Please Turn Over | Saleswoman |
| 1959 | Carry On Nurse | Matron |
| 1959 | The 39 Steps | Miss Dobson |
| 1959 | Upstairs and Downstairs | Rosemary |
| 1958 | Happy Is the Bride | Mrs. Bowles |
| 1958 | The Horse's Mouth | Lady in Gallery Queue (uncredited) |
| 1958 | Law and Disorder | Aunt Florence |
| 1958 | Chain of Events | Barmaid |
| 1957 | Barnacle Bill | Mrs. Kent |
| 1957 | No Time for Tears | Sister Duckworth |
| 1957 | Carry On Admiral | Mother |
| 1956 | The Extra Day | Mrs. West |
| 1956 | Port of Escape | Rosalie Watchett |
| 1956 | Lost | Chemist |
| 1956 | Child in the House | Cook |
| 1956 | The Last Man to Hang | Mrs. Prynne |
| 1956 | Jumping for Joy | Lady Emily Cranfield |
| 1956 | The Man Who Never Was | Landlady |
| 1955 | Value for Money | Mrs. Perkins |
| 1955 | Doctor at Sea | Mrs. Thomas |
| 1955 | As Long as They're Happy | Barmaid |
| 1955 | A Time to Kill | Miss Edinger |
| 1955 | Simon and Laura | Barmaid |
| 1955 | An Alligator Named Daisy | Piano Customer (uncredited) |
| 1954 | The House Across the Lake | Mrs. Hardcastle |
| 1954 | Dance Little Lady | Mrs. Matthews |
| 1954 | Doctor in the House | Mrs. Groaker |
| 1954 | What Every Woman Wants | Polly Ann Hadley |
| 1954 | The Million Pound Note | Maggie |
| 1954 | Mad About Men | Mrs. Forster |
| 1954 | To Dorothy, a Son | Pub Landlady |
| 1954 | The Crowded Day | Mrs. Jones |
| 1953 | Deadly Nightshade | Mrs. Fenton |
| 1953 | Rough Shoot | Station Announcer |
| 1953 | Love in Pawn | Woman in Telephone Box (Uncredited) |
| 1952 | The Card | Mrs. Codleyn |
| 1952 | Hindle Wakes | Mrs Hawthorn |
| 1952 | Tall Headlines | The Waitress |
| 1952 | The Magic Box | Mrs Stukely |
| 1952 | Curtain Up | Harry's Landlady |
| 1952 | Come Back Peter | Mrs. Harris |
| 1952 | Angels One Five | Housekeeper (Uncredited) |
| 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 | Marry Me | Mrs. Pearson |
| 1949 | When We Are Married | Mrs. Northrop |
| 1948 | The Guinea Pig | Mrs. Read |
| 1948 | Bond Street | Seamstress |
| 1948 | This Was a Woman | Miss Johnson |
| 1947 | So Well Remembered | Mother (uncredited) |
| 1947 | Just William's Luck | Mrs. Lane |
| 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 | Second Thoughts | Ellen |
| 1938 | I See Ice | Receptionist |
| 1937 | Love from a Stranger | Emmy |
| 1936 | The Man Who Could Work Miracles | Effie |
| 1935 | Widow's Might | Burroughs |
| Not At All | Mrs. K |