Joan Hickson

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: Acting

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

Died: 1998-10-17

Film

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

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	Dixon of Dock Green	Elsie Francis	53
2	1959	No Hiding Place		37
3	1960	Danger Man	Mrs. Curtis	72
4	1960	Barnaby Rudge		50
5	1963	Our Man At St Mark's		0
6	1966	Mystery and Imagination		55
7	1968	Ooh La La!		0
8	1970	From a Bird's Eye View	Hilda Tuttle	55
9	1970	Play for Today	Mother	61
10	1971	Budgie	Edith Broughton	70
11	1972	Sykes	Nurse	64
12	1972	Crown Court	Elizabeth Penn	54
13	1973	Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?	Mrs. Chambers	77
14	1974	Within These Walls		53
15	1974	Good Girl		0
16	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare		52
17	1980	The Gentle Touch		69
18	1980	Lady Killers	Carrie Esther Rapley	50
19	1981	Great Expectations	Miss Havisham	50
20	1984	Miss Marple: The Body in the Library	Miss Marple	74
21	1984	Miss Marple	Miss Marple	82
22	1985	Miss Marple: The Moving Finger	Miss Marple	75
23	1985	Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced	Miss Jane Marple	72
24	1985	Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye	Miss Jane Marple	71
25	1985	Time for Murder	Miss Wainwright	40
26	1987	Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder	Miss Jane Marple	73
27	1987	Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel	Miss Jane Marple	73
28	1987	Miss Marple: Nemesis	Miss Jane Marple	73
29	2004	Poor Little Rich Girls		0