Joan Hickson

Actor Aug 5 (died age 92) Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK 1935–1998 (63 year career)

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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…

Known For

Film

Murder She Said

Mrs. Kidder

Film

Theatre of Blood

Mrs. Sprout

Film

Clockwise

Mrs. Ellie Trellis

Film

The Man Who Never Was

Landlady

Film

The Million Pound Note

Maggie

Film

Tunes of Glory

Guest at Party (uncredited)

Film

Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington

Miss Jane Marple

Film

Miss Marple: Nemesis

Miss Jane Marple

Filmography

Acting (154)

Movies (119)

What's a Carry On?

1998

as Sister / Mrs. Dukes (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.8

Century

1993

as Mrs. Whitweather

4.9

Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

1992

as Miss Marple

7.4

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

1991

as Miss Marple

6.8

King of the Wind

1990

as Duchess of Marlborough

6.4

Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait

1990

as Narrator

Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery

1989

as Miss Marple

6.3

Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington

1987

as Miss Jane Marple

7.3

Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage

1986

as Miss Marple

6.5

Clockwise

1986

as Mrs. Ellie Trellis

6.3

Daylight Robbery

1986

as Bea

The Wicked Lady

1983

as Aunt Agatha

4.8

A Ferry Ride Away

1981

as Mrs. Massie

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

1980

as Mrs. Rivington

6.6

The Taming of the Shrew

as Widow

Bedroom Farce

as Delia

Yanks

as Mrs. Moody

That's Carry On!

as Sister / Mrs. May (archive footage)

Wedding Bells

Baby Sitters

Double Trouble

The Big Kick

On the Tiles

Tiptoe Through the Tulips

1976

as Mother

Monkey Tricks

1976

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

1975

as Mrs Gibbons

5.7

Confessions of a Window Cleaner

as Mrs. Radlett

South Riding

Theatre of Blood

as Mrs. Sprout

Carry On Girls

as Mrs. Dukes

Just in Time for Christmas

1972

as Mrs. Hope-Rising

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

as Grace

Friends

as Lady in Bookstore

Carry On Loving

as Mrs Grubb

Dracula

as Mrs Weston

Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter

1968

as Landlady

4.5

Maggie

1964

as Maggie's mother

For King and Country: Out There

1963

as Mrs. Hudd

Heavens Above!

as Housewife

Nurse on Wheels

as Mrs. Wood

Crooks Anonymous

I Thank a Fool

as Landlady

In the Doghouse

as Miss Gibbs

Carry On Regardless

as Matron

Murder She Said

as Mrs. Kidder

Raising the Wind

as Mrs. Bostwick

His and Hers

as Phoebe

No Kidding

as Cook

Doctor in Love

as Nurse (uncredited)

5.2

Tunes of Glory

1960

as Guest at Party (uncredited)

Carry On Constable

as Mrs. May

The 39 Steps

as Miss Dobson

Upstairs and Downstairs

as Rosemary

Please Turn Over

as Saleswoman

Carry On Nurse

as Sister

Law and Disorder

as Aunt Florence

Chain of Events

as Barmaid

Happy Is the Bride

as Mrs. Bowles

The Horse's Mouth

as Lady in Gallery Queue (uncredited)

Carry On Admiral

as Mother

Barnacle Bill

as Mrs. Kent

No Time for Tears

as Sister Duckworth

The Man Who Never Was

as Landlady

Port of Escape

as Rosalie Watchett

Lost

as Chemist

The Last Man to Hang

as Mrs. Prynne

Jumping for Joy

as Lady Emily Cranfield

The Extra Day

as Mrs. West

Child in the House

as Cook

Value for Money

as Mrs. Perkins

Simon and Laura

as Barmaid

Doctor at Sea

as Mrs. Thomas

An Alligator Named Daisy

1955

as Piano Customer (uncredited)

6.2

As Long as They're Happy

as Barmaid

A Time to Kill

as Miss Edinger

The Million Pound Note

as Maggie

The Crowded Day

as Mrs. Jones

Mad About Men

as Mrs. Forster

Doctor in the House

as Mrs. Groaker

The House Across the Lake

1954

as Mrs. Hardcastle

5.5

What Every Woman Wants

as Polly Ann Hadley

Dance Little Lady

as Mrs. Matthews

To Dorothy, a Son

as Pub Landlady

Rough Shoot

as Station Announcer

Love in Pawn

as Woman in Telephone Box (Uncredited)

Deadly Nightshade

as Mrs. Fenton

Curtain Up

as Harry's Landlady

The Card

as Mrs. Codleyn

Angels One Five

as Housekeeper (Uncredited)

Tall Headlines

as The Waitress

Come Back Peter

as Mrs. Harris

The Magic Box

as Mrs Stukely

Hindle Wakes

as Mrs Hawthorn

Hell Is Sold Out

as Hortense

High Treason

as Mrs. Ellis

Seven Days to Noon

as Mrs. Emily Georgina Peckett

The Magnet

as Mrs Ward

When We Are Married

as Mrs. Northrop

Marry Me

1949

as Mrs. Pearson

4.3

Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora

as Emily Haldane

This Was a Woman

as Miss Johnson

Bond Street

as Seamstress

The Guinea Pig

as Mrs. Read

So Well Remembered

as Mother (uncredited)

Just William's Luck

as Mrs. Lane

The Trojan Brothers

as Ada

I See a Dark Stranger

1946

as Hotel Manageress

6.4

I Live in Grosvenor Square

1945

as Minor role (uncredited)

7.1

The Rake's Progress

1945

as Miss Parker

6.7

Don't Take It to Heart

as Mrs. Pike

Freedom Radio

as Katie

Sailors Don't Care

as Woman Carried Ashore (uncredited)

I See Ice

as Receptionist

Second Thoughts

as Ellen

Love from a Stranger

1937

as Emmy

6.0

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

1936

as Effie

5.8

Widow's Might

1935

as Burroughs

After Loch Lomond

as Nancy

Not At All

as Mrs. K

Television (35)

Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel

as Miss Jane Marple

Miss Marple: Nemesis

as Miss Jane Marple

Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder

1987

as Miss Jane Marple

7.2

Miss Marple: The Moving Finger

1985

as Miss Marple

7.5

Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye

as Miss Jane Marple

Time for Murder

as Miss Wainwright

Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced

1985

as Miss Jane Marple

7.3

Miss Marple: The Body in the Library

as Miss Marple

Miss Marple

as Jane Marple

Poor Little Rich Girls

as Lady Harriet

Great Expectations

as Miss Havisham

The Gentle Touch

Lady Killers

as Carrie Esther Rapley

Strangers

as Miss Robinson

Our Mutual Friend

as Abbey Potterson

Good Girl

1974

as Mrs Morrow

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

as Mrs. Chambers

Crown Court

as Elizabeth Penn

Sykes

as Nurse

Budgie

as Edith Broughton

Under And Over

Play for Today

as Mother

From a Bird's Eye View

1970

as Hilda Tuttle

5.5

Sinister Street

1969

as Mrs Cleghorne

Ooh La La!

1968

Mystery and Imagination

as Mrs Weston

Theatre 625

as Elsie Amble

Our Man At St Mark's

Danger Man

as Mrs. Curtis

Barnaby Rudge

No Hiding Place

Charlesworth at Large

1958

as Miss Frisby

Armchair Theatre

as Mrs. Monkstown

Dixon of Dock Green

as Elsie Francis

Sunday Night Theatre

as Mrs. Moore /Mrs. Bateman

3.5