Joan Hickson
Acting
- Born:
- 1906-08-05
- Died:
- 1998-10-17
- Place of birth:
- Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
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
Known For
Filmography
What's a Carry On?
Century
Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
King of the Wind
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
Miss Marple: Nemesis
Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
Daylight Robbery
ScreenPlay
Clockwise
Boon
Time for Murder
Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
Miss Marple: The Moving Finger
Screen Two
Miss Marple: The Body in the Library
Miss Marple
Poor Little Rich Girls
Round And Round
The Wicked Lady
Great Expectations
A Ferry Ride Away
The Taming of the Shrew
Bedroom Farce
Lady Killers
The Gentle Touch
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Yanks
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Strangers
That's Carry On!
Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Our Mutual Friend
Wedding Bells
On the Tiles
The Big Kick
Double Trouble
Baby Sitters
Monkey Tricks
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
South Riding
Confessions of a Window Cleaner
Good Girl
Happy Ever After
Village Hall
Carry On Girls
Theatre of Blood
After Loch Lomond
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Just in Time for Christmas
Crown Court
Sykes
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Under And Over