Joan Hickson

Acting

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 se...

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6.3

Play for Today

Mother

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5.4

Crown Court

Elizabeth Penn

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7.2

Theatre 625

Elsie Amble

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7.3

Danger Man

Mrs. Curtis

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3.7

No Hiding Place

Unknown Role

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3.5

Sunday Night Theatre

Mrs. Moore /Mrs. Bateman

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6.4

Sykes

Nurse

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7.0

Budgie

Edith Broughton

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5.5

Mystery and Imagination

Mrs Weston

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5.0

Lady Killers

Carrie Esther Rapley

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Joan Hickson

Biography

Known For

Play for Today

Crown Court

Theatre 625

Danger Man

No Hiding Place

Sunday Night Theatre

Sykes

Budgie

Mystery and Imagination

Lady Killers

What's a Carry On?

Century

Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait

King of the Wind

Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery

Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington

Miss Marple: Nemesis

Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel

Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder

Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage

Daylight Robbery

Clockwise

Time for Murder

Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye

Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced

Miss Marple: The Moving Finger

Miss Marple: The Body in the Library

Poor Little Rich Girls