Joan Hickson
Acting
- Born:
- 1906-08-05
- Died:
- 1998-10-17
- Place of birth:
- Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
Biography
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
Known For
Filmography
What's a Carry On?
Century
Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
King of the Wind
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
Miss Marple: Nemesis
Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
Daylight Robbery
ScreenPlay
Clockwise
Boon
Time for Murder
Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
Miss Marple: The Moving Finger
Screen Two
Miss Marple: The Body in the Library
Miss Marple
Poor Little Rich Girls
Round And Round
The Wicked Lady
Great Expectations
A Ferry Ride Away
The Taming of the Shrew
Bedroom Farce
Lady Killers
The Gentle Touch
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Yanks
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Strangers
That's Carry On!
Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Our Mutual Friend
Wedding Bells
Double Trouble
The Big Kick
Baby Sitters
On the Tiles
Monkey Tricks
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
South Riding
Confessions of a Window Cleaner
Good Girl
Happy Ever After
Village Hall
Carry On Girls
Theatre of Blood
After Loch Lomond
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Just in Time for Christmas
Crown Court
Sykes
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Under And Over
Budgie
Friends
Play for Today
Carry On Loving
From a Bird's Eye View
Who-Dun-It
W. Somerset Maugham
Sinister Street
Dracula
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
Ooh La La!
ITV Playhouse
NET Playhouse
Mystery and Imagination
Thursday Theatre
Theatre 625
Maggie
Espionage
Our Man At St Mark's
For King and Country: Out There
Heavens Above!
Nurse on Wheels
I Thank a Fool
In the Doghouse
Crooks Anonymous
Murder She Said
Raising the Wind
Carry On Regardless
His and Hers
No Kidding
Barnaby Rudge
Tunes of Glory
Danger Man
Doctor in Love
Carry On Constable
Please Turn Over
Upstairs and Downstairs
No Hiding Place
The 39 Steps
Carry On Nurse
The Horse's Mouth
Chain of Events
Charlesworth at Large
Law and Disorder
Happy Is the Bride
Barnacle Bill
No Time for Tears
Carry On Admiral
Child in the House
The Last Man to Hang
Armchair Theatre
Port of Escape
The Man Who Never Was
Lost
The Extra Day
Jumping for Joy
An Alligator Named Daisy
Simon and Laura
A Time to Kill
Value for Money
Doctor at Sea
Dixon of Dock Green
As Long As They're Happy
Mad About Men
To Dorothy, a Son
The Crowded Day
Dance Little Lady
What Every Woman Wants
The House Across the Lake
Doctor in the House
The Million Pound Note
Love in Pawn
Rough Shoot
Deadly Nightshade
Hindle Wakes
Come Back Peter
Tall Headlines
Angels One Five
Curtain Up
The Card
The Magic Box
High Treason
Hell Is Sold Out
Seven Days to Noon
The Magnet
Sunday Night Theatre
Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora
When We Are Married
Marry Me
It's Hard to be Good
The Guinea Pig
Bond Street
This Was a Woman
Just William's Luck
So Well Remembered
I See a Dark Stranger
The Trojan Brothers
The Rake's Progress
I Live in Grosvenor Square
Don't Take It to Heart
Freedom Radio
Sailors Don't Care
I See Ice
Second Thoughts
Love from a Stranger
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Widow's Might
Not At All