Joan Hickson

Joan Hickson

1906-08-05 – 1998-10-17 (age 92) Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
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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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The Million Pound Note
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington

1987

as Miss Jane Marple

Curtain Up
Curtain Up

1952

as Harry's Landlady

The Wicked Lady
The Wicked Lady

1983

as Aunt Agatha

Yanks
Yanks

1979

as Mrs. Moody

Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
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Maggie

1964

as Maggie's mother

Crooks Anonymous
Theatre of Blood
Theatre of Blood

1973

as Mrs. Sprout

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

1980

as Mrs. Rivington

Murder She Said
Murder She Said

1961

as Mrs. Kidder

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
The Man Who Never Was
The Man Who Never Was

1956

as Landlady

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Bedroom Farce

1980

as Delia

The Taming of the Shrew
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Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
Carry On Nurse
Carry On Nurse

1959

as Sister

Carry On Girls
Carry On Girls

1973

as Mrs. Dukes

What's a Carry On?
What's a Carry On?

1998

as Sister / Mrs. Dukes (archive footage) (uncredited)