Actor
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Joan Hickson
Born 1906-08-05
Died 1998-10-17
📍 Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
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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Filmography 141
What's a Carry On?
as Sister / Mrs. Dukes (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998
Century
as Mrs. Whitweather
1993
Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
as Miss Marple
1992
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
as Miss Marple
1991
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
as Narrator
1990
King of the Wind
as Duchess of Marlborough
1990
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
as Miss Marple
1989
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
as Miss Jane Marple
1987
Miss Marple: Nemesis
as Miss Jane Marple
1987
Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
as Miss Jane Marple
1987
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
as Miss Jane Marple
1987
Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
as Miss Marple
1986
Daylight Robbery
as Bea
1986
Clockwise
as Mrs. Ellie Trellis
1986
Time for Murder
as Miss Wainwright
1985
Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
as Miss Jane Marple
1985
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
as Miss Jane Marple
1985
Miss Marple: The Moving Finger
as Miss Marple
1985
Miss Marple: The Body in the Library
as Miss Marple
1984
Miss Marple
as Miss Jane Marple
1984
Poor Little Rich Girls
as Lady Harriet
1984
The Wicked Lady
as Aunt Agatha
1983
Great Expectations
as Miss Havisham
1981
The Taming of the Shrew
as Widow
1980
Lady Killers
as Carrie Esther Rapley
1980
The Gentle Touch
1980
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
as Mrs. Rivington
1980
Yanks
as Mrs. Moody
1979
Strangers
as Miss Robinson
1978
That's Carry On!
as Sister / Mrs. May (archive footage)
1977
Tiptoe Through the Tulips
as Mother
1976
Our Mutual Friend
as Abbey Potterson
1976
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
as Mrs Gibbons
1975
South Riding
1974
Confessions of a Window Cleaner
as Mrs. Radlett
1974
Carry On Girls
as Mrs. Dukes
1973
Theatre of Blood
as Mrs. Sprout
1973
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
as Mrs. Chambers
1973
Crown Court
as Elizabeth Penn
1972
Sykes
as Nurse
1972
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
as Grace
1972
Budgie
as Edith Broughton
1971
Friends
as Lady in Bookstore
1971
Play for Today
as Mother
1970
Carry On Loving
as Mrs Grubb
1970
From a Bird's Eye View
as Hilda Tuttle
1970
Sinister Street
as Mrs Cleghorne
1969
Dracula
as Mrs. Weston
1968
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
as Landlady
1968
Ooh La La!
1968
ITV Playhouse
as Matron
1967
ITV Playhouse
as Mrs. Trix
1967
ITV Playhouse
as Mrs. Massie
1967
Mystery and Imagination
as Mrs Weston
1966
Theatre 625
as Elsie Amble
1964
Espionage
as Sara Forsythe
1963
Our Man At St Mark's
1963
Heavens Above!
as Housewife
1963
Nurse on Wheels
as Mrs. Wood
1963
I Thank a Fool
as Landlady
1962
In the Doghouse
as Miss Gibbs
1962
Crooks Anonymous
1962
Murder She Said
as Mrs. Kidder
1961
Raising the Wind
as Mrs. Bostwick
1961
Carry On Regardless
as Matron
1961
His and Hers
as Phoebe
1961
No Kidding
as Cook
1960
Barnaby Rudge
1960
Barnaby Rudge
as Mrs. Varden
1960
Tunes of Glory
as Guest at Party (uncredited)
1960
Danger Man
as Mrs. Curtis
1960
Doctor in Love
as Nurse (uncredited)
1960
Carry On Constable
as Mrs. May
1960
Please Turn Over
as Saleswoman
1959
Upstairs and Downstairs
as Rosemary
1959
No Hiding Place
1959
The 39 Steps
as Miss Dobson
1959
Carry On Nurse
as Sister
1959
The Horse's Mouth
as Lady in Gallery Queue (uncredited)
1958
Chain of Events
as Barmaid
1958
Law and Disorder
as Aunt Florence
1958
Happy Is the Bride
as Mrs. Bowles
1958
Barnacle Bill
as Mrs. Kent
1957
No Time for Tears
as Sister Duckworth
1957
Carry On Admiral
as Mother
1957
Child in the House
as Cook
1956
The Last Man to Hang
as Mrs. Prynne
1956
Armchair Theatre
as Mrs. Monkstown
1956
Port of Escape
as Rosalie Watchett
1956
The Man Who Never Was
as Landlady
1956
Lost
as Chemist
1956
The Extra Day
as Mrs. West
1956
Jumping for Joy
as Lady Emily Cranfield
1956
An Alligator Named Daisy
as Piano Customer (uncredited)
1955
Simon and Laura
as Barmaid
1955
A Time to Kill
as Miss Edinger
1955
Value for Money
as Mrs. Perkins
1955
Doctor at Sea
as Mrs. Thomas
1955
Dixon of Dock Green
as Elsie Francis
1955
As Long as They're Happy
as Barmaid
1955
Mad About Men
as Mrs. Forster
1954
To Dorothy, a Son
as Pub Landlady
1954
The Crowded Day
as Mrs. Jones
1954
Dance Little Lady
as Mrs. Matthews
1954
What Every Woman Wants
as Polly Ann Hadley
1954
The House Across the Lake
as Mrs. Hardcastle
1954
Doctor in the House
as Mrs. Groaker
1954
The Million Pound Note
as Maggie
1954
Love in Pawn
as Woman in Telephone Box (Uncredited)
1953
Rough Shoot
as Station Announcer
1953
Deadly Nightshade
as Mrs. Fenton
1953
Hindle Wakes
as Mrs Hawthorn
1952
Come Back Peter
as Mrs. Harris
1952
Tall Headlines
as The Waitress
1952
Angels One Five
as Housekeeper (Uncredited)
1952
Curtain Up
as Harry's Landlady
1952
The Card
as Mrs. Codleyn
1952
The Magic Box
as Mrs Stukely
1952
High Treason
as Mrs. Ellis
1951
Hell Is Sold Out
as Hortense
1951
Seven Days to Noon
as Mrs. Emily Georgina Peckett
1950
The Magnet
as Mrs Ward
1950
Sunday Night Theatre
as Mrs. Moore /Mrs. Bateman
1950
Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora
as Emily Haldane
1949
Marry Me
as Mrs. Pearson
1949
The Guinea Pig
as Mrs. Read
1948
Bond Street
as Seamstress
1948
This Was a Woman
as Miss Johnson
1948
Just William's Luck
as Mrs. Lane
1947
So Well Remembered
as Mother (uncredited)
1947
I See a Dark Stranger
as Hotel Manageress
1946
The Rake's Progress
as Miss Parker
1945
I Live in Grosvenor Square
as Minor role (uncredited)
1945
Don't Take It to Heart
as Mrs. Pike
1944
Freedom Radio
as Katie
1941
Sailors Don't Care
as Woman Carried Ashore (uncredited)
1940
I See Ice
as Receptionist
1938
Second Thoughts
as Ellen
1938
Love from a Stranger
as Emmy
1937
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
as Effie
1936
Widow's Might
as Burroughs
1935