Discover

›

Popular Persons

›

Joan Hickson

Known for: Acting

Biography: 1906-08-05

Deathday: 1998-10-17 (92 years old)

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 ing 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

all 148

Movies 118

TV Shows 30

Narrator 1

Poor Little Rich Girls (2004)

Mrs. Whitweather

Joan Hickson

Biography

Filmography

all 148

Movies 118

TV Shows 30

Narrator 1

Poor Little Rich Girls (2004)

Century (1993)

London Labyrinth (1993)

Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1992)

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors (1991)

Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait (1990)

King of the Wind (1990)

Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery (1989)

Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington (1987)

Miss Marple: Nemesis (1987)

Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel (1987)

Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987)

Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987)

Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986)

Daylight Robbery (1986)

Clockwise (1986)

Time for Murder (1985)

Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye (1985)

Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced (1985)

Miss Marple: The Moving Finger (1985)

Miss Marple: The Body in the Library (1984)

Miss Marple (1984)

The Wicked Lady (1983)

Great Expectations (1981)

A Ferry Ride Away (1981)

The Taming of the Shrew (1980)

Bedroom Farce (1980)

Lady Killers (1980)

The Gentle Touch (1980)

Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1980)

Yanks (1979)

The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978)

That's Carry On! (1977)

Tiptoe Through the Tulips (1976)

Monkey Tricks (1976)

Baby Sitters (1976)

The Big Kick (1976)

Wedding Bells (1976)

Double Trouble (1976)

On the Tiles (1976)

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975)

South Riding (1974)

Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974)

Good Girl (1974)

Within These Walls (1974)

Carry On Girls (1973)

Theatre of Blood (1973)

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973)

Crown Court (1972)

Sykes (1972)

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972)

Budgie (1971)

Friends (1971)

Play for Today (1970)

Carry On Loving (1970)

From a Bird's Eye View (1970)

Bachelor Father (1970)

The Possessed (1969)

Dracula (1968)

Ooh La La! (1968)

Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (1968)

Mystery and Imagination (1966)

Maggie (1964)

Our Man At St Mark's (1963)

Heavens Above! (1963)

Nurse on Wheels (1963)

I Thank a Fool (1962)

In the Doghouse (1962)

Crooks Anonymous (1962)

Murder She Said (1961)

Raising the Wind (1961)

Carry On Regardless (1961)

His and Hers (1961)