Joan Hickson

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

Died: 1998-10-17

Known For: Acting

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

Filmography

1998

What's a Carry On? as Sister / Mrs. Dukes (archive footage) (uncredited)

1993

Century as Mrs. Whitweather

1983

The Wicked Lady as Aunt Agatha

1981

Great Expectations as Miss Havisham
A Ferry Ride Away as Mrs. Massie

1980

The Gentle Touch
Lady Killers as Carrie Esther Rapley
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? as Mrs. Rivington
Bedroom Farce as Delia
The Taming of the Shrew as Widow

1979

Yanks as Mrs. Moody

1978

The BBC Television Shakespeare as Widow
Strangers as Miss Robinson

1977

That's Carry On! as Sister / Mrs. May (archive footage)

1976

1975

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing as Mrs Gibbons

1974

Happy Ever After as Mrs Henderson
Village Hall as Ursula Garfield
Confessions of a Window Cleaner as Mrs. Radlett
Good Girl as Mrs Morrow
South Riding

1973

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? as Mrs. Chambers
Theatre of Blood as Mrs. Sprout
Carry On Girls as Mrs. Dukes
After Loch Lomond as Nancy

1972

Crown Court as Elizabeth Penn
Sykes as Nurse
Just in Time for Christmas as Mrs. Hope-Rising
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg as Grace

1971

Budgie as Edith Broughton
Under And Over
Friends as Lady in Bookstore

1970

Play for Today as Mother
From a Bird's Eye View as Hilda Tuttle
Carry On Loving as Mrs Grubb

1969

W. Somerset Maugham as Mrs. Carter
Sinister Street as Mrs Cleghorne
Who-Dun-It as Miss Mackey

1968

Ooh La La!
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter as Landlady
Dracula as Mrs. Weston

1967

ITV Playhouse as Matron

1966

NET Playhouse as Mrs. Jenkins
Mystery and Imagination as Mrs Weston

1964

Theatre 625 as Elsie Amble
Thursday Theatre as Mrs Jenkins
Maggie as Maggie's mother

1963

Espionage as Sara Forsythe
Our Man At St Mark's
For King and Country: Out There as Mrs. Hudd
Heavens Above! as Housewife
Nurse on Wheels as Mrs. Wood

1962

Crooks Anonymous
I Thank a Fool as Landlady
In the Doghouse as Miss Gibbs

1961

Murder She Said as Mrs. Kidder
Carry On Regardless as Matron
His and Hers as Phoebe
Raising the Wind as Mrs. Bostwick

1960

Danger Man as Mrs. Curtis
Barnaby Rudge
Tunes of Glory as Guest at Party (uncredited)
Carry On Constable as Mrs. May
Doctor in Love as Nurse (uncredited)
No Kidding as Cook

1959

No Hiding Place
Carry On Nurse as Sister
The 39 Steps as Miss Dobson
Upstairs and Downstairs as Rosemary
Please Turn Over as Saleswoman

1958

Charlesworth at Large as Miss Frisby
The Horse's Mouth as Lady in Gallery Queue (uncredited)
Happy Is the Bride as Mrs. Bowles
Law and Disorder as Aunt Florence
Chain of Events as Barmaid

1957

Barnacle Bill as Mrs. Kent
No Time for Tears as Sister Duckworth
Carry On Admiral as Mother

1956

Armchair Theatre as Mrs. Monkstown
The Man Who Never Was as Landlady
Child in the House as Cook
The Last Man to Hang as Mrs. Prynne
The Extra Day as Mrs. West
Lost as Chemist
Port of Escape as Rosalie Watchett
Jumping for Joy as Lady Emily Cranfield

1955

Dixon of Dock Green as Elsie Francis
As Long as They're Happy as Barmaid
An Alligator Named Daisy as Piano Customer (uncredited)
Doctor at Sea as Mrs. Thomas
Simon and Laura as Barmaid
Value for Money as Mrs. Perkins
A Time to Kill as Miss Edinger

1954

The Million Pound Note as Maggie
The House Across the Lake as Mrs. Hardcastle
Doctor in the House as Mrs. Groaker
To Dorothy, a Son as Pub Landlady
What Every Woman Wants as Polly Ann Hadley
Mad About Men as Mrs. Forster
The Crowded Day as Mrs. Jones
Dance Little Lady as Mrs. Matthews

1953

Rough Shoot as Station Announcer
Love in Pawn as Woman in Telephone Box (Uncredited)
Deadly Nightshade as Mrs. Fenton

1952

The Card as Mrs. Codleyn
Curtain Up as Harry's Landlady
Angels One Five as Housekeeper (Uncredited)
The Magic Box as Mrs Stukely
Tall Headlines as The Waitress
Hindle Wakes as Mrs Hawthorn
Come Back Peter as Mrs. Harris

1951

Hell Is Sold Out as Hortense
High Treason as Mrs. Ellis

1950

Sunday Night Theatre as Mrs. Moore /Mrs. Bateman
Seven Days to Noon as Mrs. Emily Georgina Peckett
The Magnet as Mrs Ward

1949

When We Are Married as Mrs. Northrop
Marry Me as Mrs. Pearson
Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora as Emily Haldane

1948

The Guinea Pig as Mrs. Read
This Was a Woman as Miss Johnson
It's Hard to be Good as Mending Woman (uncredited)
Bond Street as Seamstress

1947

Just William's Luck as Mrs. Lane
So Well Remembered as Mother (uncredited)

1946

I See a Dark Stranger as Hotel Manageress
The Trojan Brothers as Ada

1945

The Rake's Progress as Miss Parker
I Live in Grosvenor Square as Minor role (uncredited)

1944

Don't Take It to Heart as Mrs. Pike

1941

Freedom Radio as Katie

1940

Sailors Don't Care as Woman Carried Ashore (uncredited)

1938

I See Ice as Receptionist
Second Thoughts as Ellen

1937

Love from a Stranger as Emmy

1936

The Man Who Could Work Miracles as Effie

1935

Widow's Might as Burroughs