Joan Hickson
Joan Bogle Hickson OBE 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
CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Budgie
7
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
7.7
The Gentle Touch
6.9
Poor Little Rich Girls
0
No Hiding Place
3.7
Play for Today
6.333
From a Bird's Eye View
5.5
Mystery and Imagination
5.5
Lady Killers
5
Within These Walls
5.3
Good Girl
0
The BBC Television Shakespeare
6
Barnaby Rudge
5
Our Man At St Mark's
0
Ooh La La!
0
Miss Marple: The Body in the Library
7.4
Miss Marple: The Moving Finger
7.5
Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
7.1
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
7.2
Miss Marple: Nemesis
7.3
Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
7.3
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
7.3
Great Expectations
5
Time for Murder
4
Crown Court
5.4
Dixon of Dock Green
5.3
Danger Man
7.2
Sykes
6.4
Miss Marple The Complete Collection
7
Movies
Murder She Said
7.3
Friends
5.7
Carry On Constable
6.3
Yanks
5.876
Sailors Don't Care
4.3
Carry On Regardless
6.4
Carry On Girls
5.7
The House Across the Lake
5.5
I See a Dark Stranger
6.3
Theatre of Blood
6.7
Second Thoughts
0
The Card
6.9
Happy Is the Bride
6.2
Raising the Wind
6.15
Seven Days to Noon
6.7
That's Carry On!
5.652
The Magnet
6.3
The Taming of the Shrew
7.8
Please Turn Over
6.1
So Well Remembered
5.2
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
4.5
Dracula
10
No Kidding
5.6
I See Ice
8.1
I Thank a Fool
5.5
High Treason
5.3
The Rake's Progress
7
Nurse on Wheels
5.8
Value for Money
6.6
Doctor at Sea
5.4
Deadly Nightshade
6.2
Bedroom Farce
6
The Extra Day
6.6
Not At All
0
Hindle Wakes
5
Don't Take It to Heart
5.9
Carry On Nurse
6.4
His and Hers
4.9
Daylight Robbery
0
Century
5.333
Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
6.6
Barnacle Bill
6.4
The Wicked Lady
4.929
Freedom Radio
6.3
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
5.7
Dance Little Lady
7
As Long as They're Happy
7.7
The Horse's Mouth
6.784
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
5.685
Rough Shoot
6.2
Just William's Luck
7
A Ferry Ride Away
0
Clockwise
6.2
South Riding
0
The 39 Steps
6.2
Law and Disorder
6.2
Doctor in Love
5.2
No Time for Tears
5
Doctor in the House
6.5
Port of Escape
5.4
What Every Woman Wants
6.333
Heavens Above!
6.3
Lost
7
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
6.8
The Big Kick
0
Wedding Bells
0
Double Trouble
0
Baby Sitters
0
On the Tiles
0
Monkey Tricks
0
Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
7.5
Carry On Admiral
6
Child in the House
5.8
Carry On Loving
5.7
Tall Headlines
5.8
Upstairs and Downstairs
5.6
Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora
6
In the Doghouse
5.917
The Magic Box
6.3
Marry Me
4.3
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
6.4
Love from a Stranger
5.9
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
4.4
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
7.3
Confessions of a Window Cleaner
4.871
The Guinea Pig
7.2
The Last Man to Hang
5.667
The Million Pound Note
6.839
Mad About Men
6.1
Tiptoe Through the Tulips
0
To Dorothy, a Son
5.6
A Time to Kill
6.5
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
6.5
Curtain Up
7.2
Bond Street
6.8
Chain of Events
6.3
Love in Pawn
6.5
Crooks Anonymous
6.091
Simon and Laura
5.6
The Crowded Day
5.4
I Live in Grosvenor Square
7.1
The Trojan Brothers
5
Jumping for Joy
6.5
The Man Who Never Was
7
Come Back Peter
6
An Alligator Named Daisy
6.2
King of the Wind
6.4
Angels One Five
6.1
When We Are Married
0
This Was a Woman
6
Maggie
0
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
0
Hell Is Sold Out
5.7
Widow's Might
0
What's a Carry On?
7.8