
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
Awards & recognition
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 1987
- Tony Award — Best Featured Actress in a Play · 1979
Filmography32 titles

The Taming of the Shrew

Dance Little Lady

Miss Marple: The Body in the Library

Danger Man

Murder She Said

The Gentle Touch

Tunes of Glory

King of the Wind

Man with a Million

The Promoter

Deadly Nightshade

Seven Days to Noon

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Theater of Blood

The Horse's Mouth

What Every Woman Wants

I See a Dark Stranger

Carry On Nurse

The 39 Steps

Love from a Stranger

Great Expectations

Clockwise

I Thank a Fool

Yanks

Friends

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

The Crowded Day

This Was a Woman

The Wicked Lady

Confessions of a Window Cleaner

Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait