Joan Hickson

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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Known For: Acting

Born: Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK, 1906-08-05

Died: 1998-10-17

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1936	The Man Who Could Work Miracles	Effie	57
2	1938	Second Thoughts	Ellen	0
3	1938	I See Ice	Receptionist	81
4	1940	Sailors Don't Care	Woman Carried Ashore	43
5	1941	Freedom Radio	Katie	63
6	1944	Don't Take It to Heart	Mrs. Pike	59
7	1945	The Rake's Progress	Miss Parker	70
8	1946	I See a Dark Stranger	Hotel Manageress	63
9	1947	So Well Remembered	Mother (uncredited)	52
10	1947	Just William's Luck	Mrs. Lane	70
11	1950	The Magnet	Mrs Ward	63
12	1950	Seven Days to Noon	Mrs. Emily Georgina Peckett	67
13	1951	High Treason	Mrs. Ellis	53
14	1952	The Card	Mrs. Codleyn	69
15	1952	Hindle Wakes	Mrs Hawthorn	50
16	1953	Deadly Nightshade	Mrs. Fenton	62
17	1953	Rough Shoot	Station Announcer	62
18	1954	The House Across the Lake	Mrs. Hardcastle	55
19	1954	Dance Little Lady	Mrs. Matthews	70
20	1955	As Long as They're Happy	Barmaid	77
21	1955	Doctor at Sea	Mrs. Thomas	54
22	1955	Value for Money	Mrs. Perkins	66
23	1956	The Extra Day	Mrs. West	66
24	1957	No Time for Tears	Sister Duckworth	50
25	1957	Barnacle Bill	Mrs. Kent	64
26	1958	Happy Is the Bride	Mrs. Bowles	62
27	1958	Law and Disorder	Aunt Florence	62
28	1958	The Horse's Mouth	Lady in Gallery Queue (uncredited)	68
29	1959	Carry On Nurse	Matron	64
30	1959	The 39 Steps	Miss Dobson	62
31	1959	Please Turn Over	Saleswoman	61
32	1960	Carry On Constable	Mrs. May	63
33	1960	Doctor in Love	Nurse	52
34	1960	No Kidding	Cook	56
35	1961	His and Hers	Phoebe	49
36	1961	Carry On Regardless	Matron	64
37	1961	Raising the Wind	Mrs. Bostwick	62
38	1961	Murder She Said	Mrs. Kidder	73
39	1962	I Thank a Fool	Landlady	55
40	1963	Nurse on Wheels	Mrs. Wood	58
41	1968	Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter	Landlady	45
42	1968	Dracula	Mrs Weston	100
43	1971	Friends	Lady in Bookstore	57
44	1973	Theatre of Blood	Mrs. Sprout	67
45	1973	Carry On Girls	Mrs. Dukes	57
46	1974	South Riding		0
47	1977	That's Carry On!	Various Characters	57
48	1979	Yanks	Mrs. Moody	59
49	1980	Bedroom Farce	Delia	60
50	1980	The Taming of the Shrew	Widow	78
51		Not At All	Mrs. K	0
52	1935	Widow's Might	Burroughs	0
53	1937	Love from a Stranger	Emmy	59
54	1945	I Live in Grosvenor Square	Minor role (uncredited)	71
55	1946	The Trojan Brothers	Ada	50
56	1948	This Was a Woman	Miss Johnson	60
57	1948	Bond Street	Seamstress	68
58	1948	The Guinea Pig	Mrs. Read	72
59	1949	Marry Me	Mrs. Pearson	43
60	1949	When We Are Married	Mrs. Northrop	0
61	1949	Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora	Emily Haldane	60
62	1951	Hell Is Sold Out	Hortense	57
63	1952	The Magic Box	Mrs Stukely	63
64	1952	Curtain Up	Harry's Landlady	72
65	1952	Angels One Five	Housekeeper (Uncredited)	61
66	1952	Tall Headlines	The Waitress	58
67	1952	Come Back Peter	Mrs. Harris	60
68	1953	Love in Pawn	Woman in Telephone Box (Uncredited)	65
69	1954	The Million Pound Note	Maggie	68
70	1954	Doctor in the House	Mrs. Groaker	65
71	1954	What Every Woman Wants	Polly Ann Hadley	63
72	1954	The Crowded Day	Mrs. Jones	54
73	1954	To Dorothy, a Son	Pub Landlady	56
74	1954	Mad About Men	Mrs. Forster	61
75	1955	A Time to Kill	Miss Edinger	65
76	1955	Simon and Laura	Barmaid	56
77	1955	An Alligator Named Daisy	Piano Customer (uncredited)	62
78	1956	Jumping for Joy	Lady Emily Cranfield	65
79	1956	Lost	Chemist	70
80	1956	The Man Who Never Was	Landlady	70
81	1956	Port of Escape	Rosalie Watchett	54
82	1956	The Last Man to Hang	Mrs. Prynne	57
83	1956	Child in the House	Cook	58
84	1957	Carry On Admiral	Mother	60
85	1958	Chain of Events	Barmaid	63
86	1959	Upstairs and Downstairs	Rosemary	56
87	1962	Crooks Anonymous		61
88	1962	In the Doghouse	Miss Gibbs	59
89	1963	Heavens Above!	Housewife	63
90	1964	Maggie	Maggie's mother	0
91	1970	Carry On Loving	Mrs Grubb	57
92	1972	A Day in the Death of Joe Egg	Grace	44
93	1974	Confessions of a Window Cleaner	Mrs. Radlett	49
94	1975	One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing	Mrs Gibbons	57
95	1976	Wedding Bells		0
96	1976	On the Tiles		0
97	1976	The Big Kick		0
98	1976	Double Trouble		0
99	1976	Baby Sitters		0
100	1976	Monkey Tricks		0
101	1976	Tiptoe Through the Tulips	Mother	0
102	1980	Why Didn't They Ask Evans?	Mrs. Rivington	64
103	1981	A Ferry Ride Away	Mrs. Massie	0
104	1983	The Wicked Lady	Aunt Agatha	49
105	1986	Clockwise	Mrs. Ellie Trellis	62
106	1986	Daylight Robbery	Bea	0
107	1986	Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage	Miss Marple	66
108	1987	Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington	Miss Jane Marple	73
109	1989	Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery	Miss Marple	65
110	1990	King of the Wind	Duchess of Marlborough	64
111	1990	Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait	Narrator	0
112	1991	Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors	Miss Marple	68
113	1992	Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side	Miss Marple	75
114	1993	Century	Mrs. Whitweather	53
115	1998	What's a Carry On?	Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)	78

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	Sunday Night Theatre	Mrs. Moore /Mrs. Bateman	35
2	1955	Dixon of Dock Green	Elsie Francis	53
3	1958	Charlesworth at Large	Miss Frisby	0
4	1959	No Hiding Place		37
5	1960	Danger Man	Mrs. Curtis	72
6	1960	Barnaby Rudge		50
7	1963	Our Man At St Mark's		0
8	1966	Mystery and Imagination		55
9	1968	Ooh La La!		0
10	1969	Sinister Street	Mrs. Cleghorne	0
11	1970	From a Bird's Eye View	Hilda Tuttle	55
12	1970	Play for Today	Mother	63
13	1971	Budgie	Edith Broughton	70
14	1972	Sykes	Nurse	64
15	1972	Crown Court	Elizabeth Penn	54
16	1973	Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?	Mrs. Chambers	77
17	1974	Within These Walls		53
18	1974	Good Girl		0
19	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Widow	60
20	1980	The Gentle Touch		69
21	1980	Lady Killers	Carrie Esther Rapley	50
22	1981	Great Expectations	Miss Havisham	50
23	1984	Miss Marple: The Body in the Library	Miss Marple	74
24	1984	Miss Marple The Complete Collection	Miss Marple	70
25	1985	Miss Marple: The Moving Finger	Miss Marple	75
26	1985	Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced	Miss Jane Marple	72
27	1985	Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye	Miss Jane Marple	71
28	1985	Time for Murder	Miss Wainwright	40
29	1987	Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder	Miss Jane Marple	73
30	1987	Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel	Miss Jane Marple	73
31	1987	Miss Marple: Nemesis	Miss Jane Marple	73
32	2004	Poor Little Rich Girls		0

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