About
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...
Known for
Play for TodaySeries • 1970
Crown CourtSeries • 1972
ITV PlayhouseSeries • 1967
Screen TwoSeries • 1985
Theatre 625Series • 1964
No Hiding PlaceSeries • 1959
Sunday Night TheatreSeries • 1950
Danger ManSeries • 1960
The BBC Television ShakespeareSeries • 1978
ScreenPlaySeries • 1986
NET PlayhouseSeries • 1966
SykesSeries • 1972
Dixon of Dock GreenSeries • 1955
BoonSeries • 1986
StrangersSeries • 1978
EspionageSeries • 1963
Mystery and ImaginationSeries • 1966
BudgieSeries • 1971
The Gentle TouchSeries • 1980
Miss MarpleSeries • 1984
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?Series • 1973
Miss Marple: The Moving FingerSeries • 1985
Miss Marple: NemesisSeries • 1987
Miss Marple: The Body in the LibrarySeries • 1984