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.

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Theatre of Blood

6.7

Murder She Said

7.3

Clockwise

6.2

The Man Who Never Was

7.0

The Million Pound Note

6.8

Carry On Nurse

6.3

Carry On Girls

5.7

Carry On Constable

6.3

Yanks

6.0

Carry On Regardless

6.3

Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage

6.6

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

5.8

Carry On Loving

5.6

The Horse's Mouth

6.7

Seven Days to Noon

6.7

The Card

6.9

Miss Marple: The Body in the Library

7.4

Miss Marple: Nemesis

7.3

The 39 Steps

6.2

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

6.8

Angels One Five

6.1

Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel

7.3

Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder

7.3

Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington

7.3

Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye

7.1

Doctor in the House

6.4

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

5.7

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

7.5

Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery

6.5

Confessions of a Window Cleaner

4.8

The House Across the Lake

5.5

Miss Marple: The Moving Finger

7.5

Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced

7.2

I See a Dark Stranger

6.3

Heavens Above!

6.3

Friends

5.7

The Magnet

6.3

That's Carry On!

5.8

Barnacle Bill

6.4

The Magic Box

6.3

Crooks Anonymous

6.3

The Wicked Lady

4.8

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

7.7

Doctor at Sea

5.3

Danger Man

7.2

Mad About Men

6.1

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

6.4

Please Turn Over

5.8

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

4.4

So Well Remembered

5.2

Nurse on Wheels

5.7

Doctor in Love

5.4

The Guinea Pig

7.0

Simon and Laura

5.6

The Rake's Progress

7.0

Love from a Stranger

5.9

Chain of Events

6.3

High Treason

5.3

His and Hers

4.9

Raising the Wind

6.6

Law and Disorder

6.2

Carry on Admiral

6.0

To Dorothy, a Son

5.6

The Crowded Day

5.4

I Live in Grosvenor Square

7.1

Play for Today

6.1

No Kidding

6.0

Value for Money

6.6

Upstairs and Downstairs

5.3

This Was a Woman

6.0

The Gentle Touch

6.9

The Taming of the Shrew

7.8

Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter

4.5

I Thank a Fool

5.5

Hindle Wakes

5.0

An Alligator Named Daisy

6.2

Miss Marple

8.2

Deadly Nightshade

6.2

Century

5.4

Rough Shoot

6.2

Port of Escape

5.4

In the Doghouse

6.9

The Last Man to Hang

5.2

King of the Wind

6.4

The BBC Television Shakespeare

5.2

Crown Court

5.4

Sykes

6.4

Happy Is the Bride

6.3

I See Ice

8.1

The Extra Day

6.6

Don't Take It to Heart

5.9

Lost

7.0

Child in the House

5.8

Curtain Up

7.2

Love in Pawn

6.5

Budgie

7.0

Mystery and Imagination

5.5

Sailors Don't Care

4.3

Freedom Radio

6.3

Dance Little Lady

7.0

As Long as They're Happy

7.7

Just William's Luck

7.0

No Time for Tears

5.0

Marry Me

4.3

Bond Street

6.8

No Hiding Place

3.7

Within These Walls

5.3

Dixon of Dock Green

5.3

What Every Woman Wants

6.0

Tall Headlines

5.8

A Time to Kill

6.5

Jumping for Joy

6.5

From a Bird's Eye View

5.5

Bedroom Farce

6.0

Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora

6.0

The Trojan Brothers

5.0

Come Back Peter

6.0

Lady Killers

5.0

Barnaby Rudge

5.0

Great Expectations

5.0

Time for Murder

4.0

Second Thoughts

0.0

Dracula

0.0

Not At All

0.0

Daylight Robbery

0.0

A Ferry Ride Away

0.0

South Riding

0.0

Wedding Bells

0.0

On the Tiles

0.0

The Big Kick

0.0

Double Trouble

0.0

Baby Sitters

0.0

Monkey Tricks

0.0

Tiptoe Through the Tulips

0.0

When We Are Married

0.0

Maggie

0.0

Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait

0.0

Poor Little Rich Girls

0.0

Good Girl

0.0

Our Man At St Mark's

0.0

Ooh La La!

0.0