
Joan Hickson
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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmografi
Curtain Up1952 · Harry's Landlady
The Man Who Never Was1956 · Landlady
Yanks1979 · Mrs. Moody
The Million Pound Note1954 · Maggie
Crooks Anonymous1962 ·
Theatre of Blood1973 · Mrs. Sprout
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?1980 · Mrs. Rivington
Happy Is the Bride1958 · Mrs. Bowles
Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage1986 · Miss Marple
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors1992 · Miss Marple
Murder She Said1961 · Mrs. Kidder
Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side1992 · Miss Marple
Carry On Girls1973 · Mrs. Dukes
Confessions of a Window Cleaner1974 · Mrs. Radlett
Love from a Stranger1937 · Emmy
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington1987 · Miss Jane Marple
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery1989 · Miss Marple
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing1975 · Mrs Gibbons
The Wicked Lady1983 · Aunt Agatha
I See Ice1938 · Receptionist
Clockwise1986 · Mrs. Ellie Trellis
Vanessa Redgrave
Laurence Naismith
Ronald Adam
Lloyd Lamble
Brian Oulton
Gibb McLaughlin
Richard Gere
Brenda Blethyn
William Devane
Bryan Forbes
Gregory Peck
Clifton Webb