Joan Hickson
Actor
Biography
Joan Bogle Hickson OBE (5 August 1906 â 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 (nÊe 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
Murder She Said
as Mrs. Kidder 1961
Clockwise
as Mrs. Ellie Trellis 1986
The Man Who Never Was
as Landlady 1956
The Million Pound Note
as Maggie 1954
Yanks
as Mrs. Moody 1979
Carry On Nurse
as Sister 1959
Tunes of Glory
as Guest at Party (uncredited) 1960
Carry On Constable
as Mrs. May 1960
Carry On Girls
as Mrs. Dukes 1973
Carry On Regardless
as Matron 1961
Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
as Miss Marple 1986
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
as Mrs Gibbons 1975
Carry On Loving
as Mrs Grubb 1970
The Horse's Mouth
as Lady in Gallery Queue (uncredited) 1958
Seven Days to Noon
as Mrs. Emily Georgina Peckett 1950
The Card
as Mrs. Codleyn 1952