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

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

1980

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

1979

Yanks as Mrs. Moody

1977

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

1976

1975

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing as Mrs Gibbons

1974

South Riding
Confessions of a Window Cleaner as Mrs. Radlett
Good Girl

1973

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

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

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

1970

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

1969

Sinister Street as Mrs. Cleghorne

1968

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

1966

Mystery and Imagination

1964

Theatre 625 as Elsie Amble
Maggie as Maggie's mother

1963

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

1962

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

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

1959

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

1958

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

1957

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

1956

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

1955

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

1954

The Million Pound Note as Maggie
What Every Woman Wants as Polly Ann Hadley
The House Across the Lake as Mrs. Hardcastle
Doctor in the House as Mrs. Groaker
Mad About Men as Mrs. Forster
The Crowded Day as Mrs. Jones
To Dorothy, a Son as Pub Landlady
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
Tall Headlines as The Waitress
The Magic Box as Mrs Stukely
Curtain Up as Harry's Landlady
Angels One Five as Housekeeper (Uncredited)
Come Back Peter as Mrs. Harris
Hindle Wakes as Mrs Hawthorn

1951

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

1950

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

1949

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

1948

Bond Street as Seamstress
This Was a Woman as Miss Johnson
The Guinea Pig as Mrs. Read

1947

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

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