
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.
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The Million Pound Note
1954 · as Maggie

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
1991 · as Miss Marple

Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
1992 · as Miss Marple

Yanks
1979 · as Mrs. Moody

Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
1986 · as Miss Marple

Carry On Nurse
1959 · as Sister

Murder She Said
1961 · as Mrs. Kidder

Theatre of Blood
1973 · as Mrs. Sprout

Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
1989 · as Miss Marple

Crooks Anonymous
1962

Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
1987 · as Miss Jane Marple

Carry On Girls
1973 · as Mrs. Dukes

The Wicked Lady
1983 · as Aunt Agatha

The 39 Steps
1959 · as Miss Dobson

Friends
1971 · as Lady in Bookstore

Clockwise
1986 · as Mrs. Ellie Trellis

Carry On Loving
1970 · as Mrs Grubb

The Man Who Never Was
1956 · as Landlady