Joan Hickson
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
Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
as Miss MarpleFaced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is...
Movie pageMurder She Said
as Mrs. KidderMiss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no...
Movie pageThe Man Who Never Was
as LandladyThe true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before...
Movie pageThe Horse's Mouth
as Lady in Gallery QueueGulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of...
Movie pageClockwise
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Movie pageYanks
as Mrs. MoodyDuring WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort....
Movie pageTheatre of Blood
as Mrs. SproutA Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
Movie pageThe Million Pound Note
as MaggieAn impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich...
Movie pageNo Kidding
as CookA young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a...
Movie pageDoctor at Sea
as Mrs. ThomasThe second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between...
Movie pageCarry On Nurse
as MatronSet in Haven Hospital where a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital...
Movie pageCarry On Girls
as Mrs. DukesLocal councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown...
Movie pageFriends
as Lady in BookstorePaul, a rich English boy, and Michelle, an orphaned French girl, run away from home to a remote...
Movie pageHigh Treason
as Mrs. EllisMen from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
Movie pageCarry On Loving
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Movie pageThe Magic Box
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Movie pageThe Guinea Pig
as Mrs. ReadA working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two...
Movie pageMiss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
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Movie pageLost
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Movie pagePlease Turn Over
as SaleswomanThe orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged...
Movie pageThe Card
as Mrs. CodleynA charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in...
Movie pageThe Wicked Lady
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Movie pageThe Magnet
as Mrs WardA classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.
Movie pageValue for Money
as Mrs. PerkinsA wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides...
Movie pageChild in the House
as CookA lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her...
Movie pageCrooks Anonymous
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Movie pageCarry On Constable
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Movie pageConfessions of a Window Cleaner
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Movie pageOne of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
as Mrs GibbonsEscaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord...
Movie pageI See a Dark Stranger
as Hotel ManageressDetermined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are...
Movie pageAn Alligator Named Daisy
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Movie pageCarry On Regardless
as MatronAfter a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a...
Movie pageHeavens Above!
as HousewifeA naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class...
Movie pageMiss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
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Movie pageMiss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
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Movie pageSimon and Laura
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Movie pageThe 39 Steps
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Movie pageMiss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
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Movie pageThe Taming of the Shrew
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Movie pageSo Well Remembered
as Mother (uncredited)A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.
Movie pageAngels One Five
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Movie pageThe Man Who Could Work Miracles
as EffieAn ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers...
Movie pageThat's Carry On!
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Movie pageKing of the Wind
as Duchess of MarlboroughIn 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel:...
Movie pageA Day in the Death of Joe Egg
as GraceA couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly...
Movie pageNo Time for Tears
as Sister DuckworthNo Time for Tears is a moving, sympathetic portrayal of the challenges faced by all those who...
Movie pageUpstairs and Downstairs
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Movie pageWhy Didn't They Ask Evans?
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Movie pageLaw and Disorder
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Movie pageDoctor in Love
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Movie pageRough Shoot
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Movie pageHappy Is the Bride
as Mrs. BowlesIn a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the...
Movie pageI Live in Grosvenor Square
as Minor role (uncredited)The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London....
Movie pageCentury
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Movie pageDracula
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Movie pageRaising the Wind
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Movie pageSeven Days to Noon
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Movie pageDoctor in the House
as Mrs. GroakerThe first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between...
Movie pageBarnacle Bill
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Movie pageNurse on Wheels
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Movie pageThis Was a Woman
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Movie pageBond Street
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Movie pageFreedom Radio
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as Mrs. JonesOne day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
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Movie pageAs Long as They're Happy
as BarmaidThe suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his...
Movie pageDeadly Nightshade
as Mrs. FentonEscapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful.
Movie pageChain of Events
as BarmaidWhen a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences
Movie pageThe Last Man to Hang
as Mrs. PrynneA man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
Movie pageHindle Wakes
as Mrs HawthornDuring a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting...
Movie pageJumping for Joy
as Lady Emily CranfieldAt the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound,...
Movie pageLove from a Stranger
as EmmyAnn Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after...
Movie pageThe Extra Day
as Mrs. WestDirector William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various...
Movie pageDon't Take It to Heart
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Movie pageWhat Every Woman Wants
as Polly Ann HadleyYoung couple Mark and Jane are forced to thrash out marital problems in a borrowed room in...
Movie pageJust William's Luck
as Mrs. LaneComic adventures of an 11-year-old boy and his neighborhood pals.
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as Miss MarpleA newly married young woman was suddenly killed. Who is the culprit on earth? Is it her husband,...
Movie pageI See Ice
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Movie pageCarry on Admiral
as MotherTwo friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the...
Movie pageTall Headlines
as The WaitressA family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
Movie pageCurtain Up
as Harry's LandladyIn a small town in the 1950s a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the...
Movie pageLove in Pawn
as Woman in Telephone Box (Uncredited)A British comedy about a struggling artist and his wife living on a houseboat. To raise money...
Movie pageTiptoe Through the Tulips
as MotherTV play by Beryl Bainbridge. Friends arrange a dinner party to introduce two single friends,...
Movie pageThe Rake's Progress
as Miss ParkerVivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and...
Movie pagePort of Escape
as Rosalie WatchettTwo sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man...
Movie pageMrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
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Movie pageIn the Doghouse
as Miss GibbsAfter 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.
Movie pageA Time to Kill
as Miss EdingerA man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins...
Movie pageSouth Riding
as uncreditedAn adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel
Movie pageCome Back Peter
as Mrs. HarrisThere's pandemonium in a country house when various relatives come to stay.
Movie pageCelia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora
as Emily HaldaneA private detective (Bruce Lester) and an aspiring actress (Hy Hazell) join forces to thwart a...
Movie pageSailors Don't Care
as Woman Carried AshoreBoat building father and son join the river patrol service and get caught-up in a spy ring.
Movie pageDance Little Lady
as Mrs. MatthewsWhen a ballerina's career is ended after she's injured in a traffic accident, her husband...
Movie pageDaylight Robbery
as BeaNeglected by her family, kept apart from her grandchildren, desperately short of money, Bea...
Movie pageSecond Thoughts
as EllenA chemist is left unhinged following a laboratory explosion and begins to plot a murder.
Movie pagePlay for Today
as uncreditedPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
TV Show pageNo Hiding Place
as uncreditedNo Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by...
TV Show pageBBC Television Shakespeare
as uncreditedThe BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of...
TV Show pageWithin These Walls
as uncreditedWithin These Walls is a British television drama programme made by London Weekend Television for...
TV Show pageThe Gentle Touch
as uncreditedThe Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television...
TV Show pageMiss Marple
as Miss MarpleMiss Marple, the spinster detective who is one of the most famous characters created by English...
TV Show pageCrown Court
as Elizabeth PennCrown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the...
TV Show pageWhatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
as Mrs. ChambersWhatever Happened to the Likely Lads? is a British sitcom which was broadcast between 9 January...
TV Show pageMystery and Imagination
as uncreditedMystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and...
TV Show pageTime for Murder
as Miss WainwrightWritten by six of Britain's finest writers (including Fay Weldon, Antonia Fraser, and Michael...
TV Show pageMiss Marple: The Body in the Library
as Miss MarpleAmateur detective Miss Jane Marple investigates the murder of a young woman whose body is found...
TV Show pageFrom a Bird's Eye View
as Hilda TuttleFrom a Bird's Eye View is a 1970 ATV and ITC Entertainment co-produced sitcom. In the United...
TV Show pageMiss Marple: The Moving Finger
as Miss MarpleThe residents of a quiet English village begin to receive nasty, threatening letters. The wife...
TV Show pageMiss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
as Miss Jane MarpleWhen a handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman, Miss Marple seeks a...
TV Show pageBudgie
as uncreditedBudgie is a popular British television series starring former popstar Adam Faith which was...
TV Show pageMiss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
as Miss Jane MarpleThere's a murder at the elegant hotel where Miss Marple is staying and international adventurer...
TV Show pageMiss Marple: Nemesis
as Miss Jane MarpleMr. Jason Rafiel asks Miss Marple to solve a crime but, he does gives her any details. In fact,...
TV Show pageOur Man At St Mark's
as uncreditedTrials and tribulations of the priest of Felgate village.
TV Show pageMiss Marple: Sleeping Murder
as Miss Jane MarpleWhen a young bride moves into a country manor, long repressed childhood memories of witnessing a...
TV Show pageBarnaby Rudge
as uncreditedBarnaby Rudge is a British drama television series which originally aired on the BBC in thirteen...
TV Show pageMiss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
as Miss Jane MarpleAn advertisement announcing the time and place of a forthcoming murder appears among the ads of...
TV Show pageGreat Expectations
as Miss HavishamViolence and Victorian gentility meet in this powerful adaptations of one of Dickens's greatest...
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