
Actor
Born August 5, 1906 in 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 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.

What's a Carry On?
Sister / Mrs. Dukes (archive footage) (uncredited)

Century
Mrs. Whitweather

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

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
Miss Marple

Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
Narrator

King of the Wind
Duchess of Marlborough

Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
Miss Marple

Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
Miss Jane Marple

Miss Marple: Nemesis
Miss Jane Marple

Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
Miss Jane Marple

Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
Miss Jane Marple

Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
Miss Marple

Daylight Robbery
Bea

ScreenPlay
Bea

Clockwise
Mrs. Ellie Trellis

Time for Murder
Miss Wainwright

Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
Miss Jane Marple

Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
Miss Jane Marple

Miss Marple: The Moving Finger
Miss Marple

Screen Two
Mrs. Whiteweather

Miss Marple: The Body in the Library
Miss Marple

Poor Little Rich Girls
Lady Harriet

The Wicked Lady
Aunt Agatha

Great Expectations
Miss Havisham

The Taming of the Shrew
Widow

Lady Killers
Carrie Esther Rapley

The Gentle Touch

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Mrs. Rivington

Yanks
Mrs. Moody

The BBC Television Shakespeare
Widow

Strangers
Miss Robinson

That's Carry On!
Sister / Mrs. May (archive footage)

Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Mother

Our Mutual Friend
Abbey Potterson

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Mrs Gibbons

South Riding

Confessions of a Window Cleaner
Mrs. Radlett

Happy Ever After
Mrs Henderson

Carry On Girls
Mrs. Dukes

Theatre of Blood
Mrs. Sprout

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Mrs. Chambers

Crown Court
Elizabeth Penn

Sykes
Nurse

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Grace

Budgie
Edith Broughton

Friends
Lady in Bookstore

Play for Today
Mother

Carry On Loving
Mrs Grubb

From a Bird's Eye View
Hilda Tuttle

Sinister Street
Mrs Cleghorne

Dracula
Mrs. Weston

Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
Landlady

Ooh La La!

ITV Playhouse
Matron

NET Playhouse
Mrs. Jenkins

Mystery and Imagination
Mrs Weston

Theatre 625
Elsie Amble

Espionage
Sara Forsythe

Our Man At St Mark's

Heavens Above!
Housewife

Nurse on Wheels
Mrs. Wood

I Thank a Fool
Landlady

In the Doghouse
Miss Gibbs

Crooks Anonymous

Murder She Said
Mrs. Kidder

Raising the Wind
Mrs. Bostwick

Carry On Regardless
Matron

His and Hers
Phoebe

No Kidding
Cook

Barnaby Rudge

Tunes of Glory
Guest at Party (uncredited)

Danger Man
Mrs. Curtis

Doctor in Love
Nurse (uncredited)

Carry On Constable
Mrs. May

Please Turn Over
Saleswoman

Upstairs and Downstairs
Rosemary

No Hiding Place

The 39 Steps
Miss Dobson

Carry On Nurse
Sister

The Horse's Mouth
Lady in Gallery Queue (uncredited)

Chain of Events
Barmaid

Law and Disorder
Aunt Florence

Happy Is the Bride
Mrs. Bowles

Barnacle Bill
Mrs. Kent

No Time for Tears
Sister Duckworth

Carry On Admiral
Mother

Child in the House
Cook

The Last Man to Hang
Mrs. Prynne

Armchair Theatre
Mrs. Monkstown

Port of Escape
Rosalie Watchett

The Man Who Never Was
Landlady

Lost
Chemist

The Extra Day
Mrs. West

Jumping for Joy
Lady Emily Cranfield

An Alligator Named Daisy
Piano Customer (uncredited)

Simon and Laura
Barmaid

A Time to Kill
Miss Edinger

Value for Money
Mrs. Perkins

Doctor at Sea
Mrs. Thomas

Dixon of Dock Green
Elsie Francis

As Long as They're Happy
Barmaid

Mad About Men
Mrs. Forster

To Dorothy, a Son
Pub Landlady

The Crowded Day
Mrs. Jones

Dance Little Lady
Mrs. Matthews

What Every Woman Wants
Polly Ann Hadley

The House Across the Lake
Mrs. Hardcastle

Doctor in the House
Mrs. Groaker

The Million Pound Note
Maggie

Love in Pawn
Woman in Telephone Box (Uncredited)

Rough Shoot
Station Announcer

Deadly Nightshade
Mrs. Fenton

Hindle Wakes
Mrs Hawthorn

Come Back Peter
Mrs. Harris

Tall Headlines
The Waitress

Angels One Five
Housekeeper (Uncredited)

Curtain Up
Harry's Landlady

The Card
Mrs. Codleyn

The Magic Box
Mrs Stukely

High Treason
Mrs. Ellis

Hell Is Sold Out
Hortense

Seven Days to Noon
Mrs. Emily Georgina Peckett

The Magnet
Mrs Ward

Sunday Night Theatre
Mrs. Moore /Mrs. Bateman

Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora
Emily Haldane

Marry Me
Mrs. Pearson

The Guinea Pig
Mrs. Read

Bond Street
Seamstress

This Was a Woman
Miss Johnson

Just William's Luck
Mrs. Lane

So Well Remembered
Mother (uncredited)

I See a Dark Stranger
Hotel Manageress

The Rake's Progress
Miss Parker

I Live in Grosvenor Square
Minor role (uncredited)

Don't Take It to Heart
Mrs. Pike

Freedom Radio
Katie

Sailors Don't Care
Woman Carried Ashore (uncredited)

I See Ice
Receptionist

Second Thoughts
Ellen

Love from a Stranger
Emmy

The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Effie

Widow's Might
Burroughs