Joan Hickson
Birthday: 1906-08-05
Deathday: 1998-10-17
Birthplace: Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
Gender: Female
Owned By: Unowned
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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Credits
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Not At All | Mrs. K | |
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1993-12-31 | Century | Mrs. Whitweather |
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1992-12-27 | Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side | Miss Marple |
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1991-12-29 | Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors | Miss Marple |
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1990-05-25 | King of the Wind | Duchess of Marlborough |
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1989-12-25 | Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery | Miss Marple |
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1987-02-25 | Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington | Miss Jane Marple |
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1987-01-11 | Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder | Miss Jane Marple |
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1986-12-25 | Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage | Miss Marple |
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1986-07-16 | Daylight Robbery | Bea |
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1986-03-01 | Clockwise | Mrs. Ellie Trellis |
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1983-04-21 | The Wicked Lady | Aunt Agatha |
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1981-07-22 | A Ferry Ride Away | Mrs. Massie |
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1980-10-23 | The Taming of the Shrew | Widow |
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1980-09-28 | Bedroom Farce | Delia |
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1980-03-30 | Why Didn't They Ask Evans? | Mrs. Rivington |
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1979-09-01 | Yanks | Mrs. Moody |
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1977-11-10 | That's Carry On! | Various Characters |
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1976-03-16 | Tiptoe Through the Tulips | Mother |
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1976-01-01 | Wedding Bells | |
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1976-01-01 | On the Tiles | |
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1976-01-01 | The Big Kick | |
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1976-01-01 | Double Trouble | |
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1976-01-01 | Baby Sitters | |
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1976-01-01 | Monkey Tricks | |
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1975-07-09 | One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing | Mrs Gibbons |
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1974-09-16 | South Riding | |
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1974-08-16 | Confessions of a Window Cleaner | Mrs. Radlett |
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1973-11-09 | Carry On Girls | Mrs. Dukes |
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1973-03-16 | Theatre of Blood | Mrs. Sprout |
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1972-05-01 | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | Grace |
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1971-03-24 | Friends | Lady in Bookstore |
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1970-09-20 | Carry On Loving | Mrs Grubb |
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1968-11-18 | Dracula | Mrs Weston |
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1968-01-22 | Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter | Landlady |
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1964-01-25 | Maggie | Maggie's mother |
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1963-05-20 | Heavens Above! | Housewife |
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1963-01-03 | Nurse on Wheels | Mrs. Wood |
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1962-09-14 | I Thank a Fool | Landlady |
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1962-05-17 | In the Doghouse | Miss Gibbs |
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1962-03-31 | Crooks Anonymous | |
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1961-09-26 | Murder She Said | Mrs. Kidder |
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1961-09-06 | Raising the Wind | Mrs. Bostwick |
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1961-04-04 | Carry On Regardless | Matron |
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1961-01-01 | His and Hers | Phoebe |
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1960-11-01 | No Kidding | Cook |
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1960-07-12 | Doctor in Love | Nurse |
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1960-02-22 | Carry On Constable | Mrs. May |
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1959-12-17 | Please Turn Over | Saleswoman |
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1959-11-02 | Upstairs and Downstairs | Rosemary |
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1959-03-13 | The 39 Steps | Miss Dobson |
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1959-01-30 | Carry On Nurse | Matron |
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1958-11-11 | The Horse's Mouth | Lady in Gallery Queue (uncredited) |
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1958-09-30 | Chain of Events | Barmaid |
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1958-06-09 | Law and Disorder | Aunt Florence |
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1958-03-04 | Happy Is the Bride | Mrs. Bowles |
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1957-12-17 | Barnacle Bill | Mrs. Kent |
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1957-10-04 | No Time for Tears | Sister Duckworth |
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1957-05-14 | Carry on Admiral | Mother |
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1956-08-14 | Child in the House | Cook |
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1956-08-01 | The Last Man to Hang | Mrs. Prynne |
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1956-05-01 | Port of Escape | Rosalie Watchett |
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1956-04-03 | The Man Who Never Was | Landlady |
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1956-01-31 | Lost | Chemist |
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1956-01-01 | The Extra Day | Mrs. West |
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1956-01-01 | Jumping for Joy | Lady Emily Cranfield |
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1955-12-13 | An Alligator Named Daisy | Piano Customer (uncredited) |
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1955-11-02 | Simon and Laura | Barmaid |
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1955-11-01 | A Time to Kill | Miss Edinger |
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1955-08-09 | Value for Money | Mrs. Perkins |
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1955-07-12 | Doctor at Sea | Mrs. Thomas |
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1955-03-15 | As Long as They're Happy | Barmaid |
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1954-11-16 | Mad About Men | Mrs. Forster |
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1954-10-31 | To Dorothy, a Son | Pub Landlady |
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1954-10-01 | The Crowded Day | Mrs. Jones |
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1954-07-13 | Dance Little Lady | Mrs. Matthews |
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1954-06-10 | What Every Woman Wants | Polly Ann Hadley |
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1954-04-16 | The House Across the Lake | Mrs. Hardcastle |
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1954-03-23 | Doctor in the House | Mrs. Groaker |
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1954-01-07 | The Million Pound Note | Maggie |
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1953-11-23 | Love in Pawn | Woman in Telephone Box (Uncredited) |
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1953-03-30 | Rough Shoot | Station Announcer |
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1953-03-01 | Deadly Nightshade | Mrs. Fenton |
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1952-11-10 | Hindle Wakes | Mrs Hawthorn |
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1952-10-31 | Come Back Peter | Mrs. Harris |
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1952-04-15 | Tall Headlines | The Waitress |
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1952-03-19 | Angels One Five | Housekeeper (Uncredited) |
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1952-03-12 | Curtain Up | Harry's Landlady |
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1952-02-25 | The Card | Mrs. Codleyn |
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1952-01-01 | The Magic Box | Mrs Stukely |
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1951-11-13 | High Treason | Mrs. Ellis |
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1950-10-30 | Seven Days to Noon | Mrs. Emily Georgina Peckett |
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1950-10-01 | The Magnet | Mrs Ward |
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1949-08-29 | Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora | Emily Haldane |
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1949-07-10 | When We Are Married | Mrs. Northrop |
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1949-06-07 | Marry Me | Mrs. Pearson |
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1948-10-26 | The Guinea Pig | Mrs. Read |
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1948-05-12 | Bond Street | Seamstress |
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1948-01-27 | This Was a Woman | Miss Johnson |
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1947-12-17 | Just William's Luck | Mrs. Lane |
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1947-07-09 | So Well Remembered | Mother (uncredited) |
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1946-07-04 | I See a Dark Stranger | Hotel Manageress |
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1946-02-04 | The Trojan Brothers | Ada |
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1945-12-06 | The Rake's Progress | Miss Parker |
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1945-07-20 | I Live in Grosvenor Square | Minor role (uncredited) |
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1944-11-13 | Don't Take It to Heart | Mrs. Pike |
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1941-02-04 | Freedom Radio | Katie |
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1940-12-28 | Sailors Don't Care | Woman Carried Ashore |
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1938-02-10 | I See Ice | Receptionist |
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1938-01-01 | Second Thoughts | Ellen |
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1937-04-18 | Love from a Stranger | Emmy |
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1936-07-23 | The Man Who Could Work Miracles | Effie |