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Joan Hickson
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…
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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
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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1998
What's a Carry On?
Movie Sister / Mrs. Dukes (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1993
Century
Movie Mrs. Whitweather
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1992
Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Movie Miss Marple
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1991
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
Movie Miss Marple
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1990
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
Movie Narrator
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1990
King of the Wind
Movie Duchess of Marlborough
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1989
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
Movie Miss Marple
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1987
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
Movie Miss Jane Marple
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1987
Miss Marple: Nemesis
TV show Miss Jane Marple
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1987
Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
TV show Miss Jane Marple
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1987
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
TV show Miss Jane Marple
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1986
Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
Movie Miss Marple
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1986
Daylight Robbery
Movie Bea
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1986
ScreenPlay
TV show Bea
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1986
Clockwise
Movie Mrs. Ellie Trellis
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1985
Time for Murder
TV show Miss Wainwright
More credits
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1985
Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
TV show Miss Jane Marple
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1985
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
TV show Miss Jane Marple
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1985
Miss Marple: The Moving Finger
TV show Miss Marple
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1985
Screen Two
TV show Mrs. Whiteweather
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1984
Miss Marple: The Body in the Library
TV show Miss Marple
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1984
Miss Marple
TV show Miss Marple
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1984
Poor Little Rich Girls
TV show Lady Harriet
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1984
Round And Round
TV show
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1983
The Wicked Lady
Movie Aunt Agatha
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1981
Great Expectations
TV show Miss Havisham
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1981
A Ferry Ride Away
Movie Mrs. Massie
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1980
The Taming of the Shrew
Movie Widow
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1980
Bedroom Farce
Movie Delia
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1980
Lady Killers
TV show Carrie Esther Rapley
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1980
The Gentle Touch
TV show
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1980
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Movie Mrs. Rivington
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1979
Yanks
Movie Mrs. Moody
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1978
The BBC Television Shakespeare
TV show Widow
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1978
Strangers
TV show Miss Robinson
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1977
That's Carry On!
Movie Sister / Mrs. May (archive footage)
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1976
Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Movie Mother
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1976
Our Mutual Friend
TV show Abbey Potterson
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1976
Baby Sitters
Movie
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1976
The Big Kick
Movie
