Joan Hickson
Known for: Acting
Born: August 5, 1906
Died: October 17, 1998
Place of birth: Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
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
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Filmography
120 movies · 46 TV shows, newest first
7.7
What's a Carry On?
1998
5.1
Century
1993
7.4
Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
1992
6.9
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
1991
NR
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
1990
7.0
King of the Wind
1990
6.6
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
1989
7.5
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
1987
7.4
Miss Marple: Nemesis
1987
7.4
Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
1987
7.3
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
1987
6.6
Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
1986
NR
Daylight Robbery
1986
6.0
ScreenPlay
1986
6.2
Clockwise
1986
4.0
Time for Murder
1985
7.4
Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
1985
7.6
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
1985
7.7
Miss Marple: The Moving Finger
1985
7.1
Screen Two
1985
7.5
Miss Marple: The Body in the Library
1984
7.0
Miss Marple
1984
7.5
Poor Little Rich Girls
1984NR
Round And Round
1984
4.9
The Wicked Lady
1983
6.3
Great Expectations
1981NR
A Ferry Ride Away
1981
8.0
The Taming of the Shrew
19806.0
Bedroom Farce
1980
7.5
Lady Killers
1980
7.2
The Gentle Touch
1980
6.7
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
1980
5.9
Yanks
1979
6.0
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
7.3
Strangers
1978
5.8
That's Carry On!
1977
8.0
Tiptoe Through the Tulips
1976
7.0
Our Mutual Friend
1976NR
Wedding Bells
1976NR
On the Tiles
1976NR
The Big Kick
1976NR
Double Trouble
1976NR
Baby Sitters
1976NR
Monkey Tricks
1976
5.8
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
1975
NR
South Riding
1974
5.0
Confessions of a Window Cleaner
1974NR
Good Girl
1974
6.8
Happy Ever After
1974
5.7
Carry On Girls
1973
6.7
Theatre of Blood
1973NR
After Loch Lomond
1973
7.7
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
1973NR
Just in Time for Christmas
1972
5.7
Crown Court
1972
6.7
Sykes
1972
4.4
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
1972NR
Under And Over
1971
7.2
Budgie
1971
5.9
Friends
1971
6.6
Play for Today
1970
5.7
Carry On Loving
1970
6.0
From a Bird's Eye View
1970NR
Who-Dun-It
1969NR
W. Somerset Maugham
1969
8.0
Sinister Street
1969
10.0
Dracula
1968
5.1
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
1968
10.0
Ooh La La!
1968
7.0
ITV Playhouse
1967
7.3
NET Playhouse
1966
5.8
Mystery and Imagination
1966NR
Thursday Theatre
1964
7.2
Theatre 625
1964NR
Maggie
1964
10.0
Espionage
1963
9.0
Our Man At St Mark's
1963NR
For King and Country: Out There
1963
6.6
Heavens Above!
1963
6.1
Nurse on Wheels
1963
6.1
I Thank a Fool
1962
6.4
In the Doghouse
1962
6.1
Crooks Anonymous
1962
7.3
Murder She Said
1961
6.3
Raising the Wind
1961
6.2
Carry On Regardless
1961
5.3
His and Hers
1961
6.1
No Kidding
1960
5.0
Barnaby Rudge
1960
7.0
Tunes of Glory
1960
7.3
Danger Man
1960
5.5
Doctor in Love
1960
6.3
Carry On Constable
1960
6.3
Please Turn Over
1959
5.8
Upstairs and Downstairs
1959
4.8
No Hiding Place
1959
6.3
The 39 Steps
1959
6.4
Carry On Nurse
1959
6.8
The Horse's Mouth
1958
6.4
Chain of Events
1958NR
Charlesworth at Large
1958
6.4
Law and Disorder
1958
7.0
Happy Is the Bride
1958
6.6
Barnacle Bill
1957
6.0
No Time for Tears
1957
6.4
Carry On Admiral
1957
6.6
Child in the House
1956
6.2
The Last Man to Hang
1956
6.0
Armchair Theatre
1956
6.0
Port of Escape
1956
7.0
The Man Who Never Was
1956
6.8
Lost
1956
7.1
The Extra Day
1956
6.7
Jumping for Joy
1956
6.4
An Alligator Named Daisy
1955
5.9
Simon and Laura
1955
7.7
A Time to Kill
1955
6.9
Value for Money
1955
5.8
Doctor at Sea
1955
6.0
Dixon of Dock Green
1955
7.5
As Long as They're Happy
1955
6.5
Mad About Men
1954
5.8
To Dorothy, a Son
1954
5.8
The Crowded Day
1954
7.8
Dance Little Lady
1954
6.6
What Every Woman Wants
1954
5.5
The House Across the Lake
1954
6.5
Doctor in the House
1954
7.0
The Million Pound Note
1954
7.2
Love in Pawn
1953
6.7
Rough Shoot
1953
6.8
Deadly Nightshade
1953
5.4
Hindle Wakes
1952
8.0
Come Back Peter
1952
6.8
Tall Headlines
1952
6.1
Angels One Five
1952
7.2
Curtain Up
1952
7.0
The Card
1952
6.5
The Magic Box
1952
5.7
High Treason
1951
6.0
Hell Is Sold Out
1951
6.8
Seven Days to Noon
1950
6.4
The Magnet
1950
3.5
Sunday Night Theatre
1950
7.0
Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora
1949NR
When We Are Married
1949
5.8
Marry Me
1949
5.8
It's Hard to be Good
1948
7.1
The Guinea Pig
1948
6.9
Bond Street
1948
5.7
This Was a Woman
1948
7.8
Just William's Luck
1947
5.2
So Well Remembered
1947
6.5
I See a Dark Stranger
19466.5
The Trojan Brothers
1946
6.8
The Rake's Progress
1945
7.3
I Live in Grosvenor Square
1945
6.3
Don't Take It to Heart
1944
7.0
Freedom Radio
1941
5.0
Sailors Don't Care
1940
6.5
I See Ice
1938
NR
Second Thoughts
1938
6.3
Love from a Stranger
1937
6.0
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
1936
10.0
Widow's Might
1935NR
Not At All
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