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.
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Filmography
all 139
Movies 112
TV Shows 27
Poor Little Rich Girls (2004)
Century (1993)
London Labyrinth (1993)
Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1992)
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors (1991)
King of the Wind (1990)
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery (1989)
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987)
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington (1987)
Miss Marple: Nemesis (1987)
Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel (1987)
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987)
Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986)
Daylight Robbery (1986)
Clockwise (1986)
Time for Murder (1985)
Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye (1985)
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced (1985)
Miss Marple: The Moving Finger (1985)
Miss Marple: The Body in the Library (1984)
Miss Marple (1984)
The Wicked Lady (1983)
Great Expectations (1981)
The Taming of the Shrew (1980)
Bedroom Farce (1980)
Lady Killers (1980)
The Gentle Touch (1980)
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1980)
Yanks (1979)
BBC Television Shakespeare (1978)
That's Carry On! (1977)
Tiptoe Through the Tulips (1976)
Monkey Tricks (1976)
Baby Sitters (1976)
The Big Kick (1976)
Wedding Bells (1976)
Double Trouble (1976)
On the Tiles (1976)
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975)
South Riding (1974)
Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974)
Good Girl (1974)
Within These Walls (1974)
Carry On Girls (1973)
Theatre of Blood (1973)
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973)
Crown Court (1972)
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972)
Budgie (1971)
Friends (1971)
Play for Today (1970)
Carry On Loving (1970)
From a Bird's Eye View (1970)
Dracula (1968)
Ooh La La! (1968)
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (1968)
Mystery and Imagination (1966)
Our Man At St Mark's (1963)
Heavens Above! (1963)
Nurse on Wheels (1963)
I Thank a Fool (1962)
In the Doghouse (1962)
Crooks Anonymous (1962)
Murder She Said (1961)
Raising the Wind (1961)
Carry On Regardless (1961)
His and Hers (1961)
No Kidding (1960)
Barnaby Rudge (1960)
Doctor in Love (1960)
Carry On Constable (1960)
Please Turn Over (1959)
Upstairs and Downstairs (1959)
No Hiding Place (1959)
The 39 Steps (1959)
Carry On Nurse (1959)
The Horse's Mouth (1958)
Chain of Events (1958)
Law and Disorder (1958)
Happy Is the Bride (1958)
Barnacle Bill (1957)
No Time for Tears (1957)
Carry on Admiral (1957)
Child in the House (1956)
The Last Man to Hang (1956)
Port of Escape (1956)
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
Lost (1956)
The Extra Day (1956)
Jumping for Joy (1956)
An Alligator Named Daisy (1955)
Simon and Laura (1955)
A Time to Kill (1955)
Value for Money (1955)
Doctor at Sea (1955)
As Long as They're Happy (1955)
Mad About Men (1954)
To Dorothy, a Son (1954)
The Crowded Day (1954)
Dance Little Lady (1954)
What Every Woman Wants (1954)
The House Across the Lake (1954)
Doctor in the House (1954)
The Million Pound Note (1954)
Love in Pawn (1953)
Rough Shoot (1953)
Deadly Nightshade (1953)
Hindle Wakes (1952)
Come Back Peter (1952)
Tall Headlines (1952)
Angels One Five (1952)
Curtain Up (1952)
The Card (1952)
The Magic Box (1952)
High Treason (1951)
Hell Is Sold Out (1951)
Seven Days to Noon (1950)
The Magnet (1950)
Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora (1949)
When We Are Married (1949)
Marry Me (1949)
The Guinea Pig (1948)
Bond Street (1948)
This Was a Woman (1948)
Just William's Luck (1947)
So Well Remembered (1947)
I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
The Trojan Brothers (1946)
The Rake's Progress (1945)
I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945)
Don't Take It to Heart (1944)
Freedom Radio (1941)
Sailors Don't Care (1940)
I See Ice (1938)
Second Thoughts (1938)
Love from a Stranger (1937)
The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
Bachelor Father
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1906-08-05
Deathday1998-10-17 (92 years old)
Birth NameJoan Bogle Hickson
Birth PlaceKingsthorpe, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
Also Known AsДжоан Хиксон, Miss M, Joan Bogle Hickson
AwardsTony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, Tony Awards, Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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