Joan Hickson
ActingAlso Known As
Джоан Хиксон, Miss M, Joan Bogle Hickson
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
Movies
(119 total)
Theatre of Blood
as Mrs. Sprout
Murder She Said
as Mrs. Kidder
Clockwise
as Mrs. Ellie Trellis
The Man Who Never Was
as Landlady
The Million Pound Note
as Maggie
Yanks
as Mrs. Moody
Carry On Girls
as Mrs. Dukes
Carry On Nurse
as Sister
Tunes of Glory
as Guest at Party (uncredited)
Carry On Constable
as Mrs. May
Carry On Regardless
as Matron
Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
as Miss Marple
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
as Mrs Gibbons
Carry On Loving
as Mrs Grubb
The Horse's Mouth
as Lady in Gallery Queue (uncredited)
Seven Days to Noon
as Mrs. Emily Georgina Peckett
The Card
as Mrs. Codleyn
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
as Miss Jane Marple
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
as Miss Marple
The 39 Steps
as Miss Dobson
TV Shows
(35 total)
Miss Marple: The Body in the Library
as Miss Marple
Miss Marple: Nemesis
as Miss Jane Marple
Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
as Miss Jane Marple
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
as Miss Jane Marple
Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
as Miss Jane Marple
Miss Marple: The Moving Finger
as Miss Marple
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
as Miss Jane Marple
Danger Man
as Mrs. Curtis
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
as Mrs. Chambers
Play for Today
as Mother
Budgie
as Edith Broughton
Crown Court
as Elizabeth Penn
Sykes
as Nurse
Theatre 625
as Elsie Amble
Mystery and Imagination
as Mrs Weston
Dixon of Dock Green
as Elsie Francis
Strangers
as Miss Robinson
From a Bird's Eye View
as Hilda Tuttle