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5 August 1906
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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 particularly 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.
Biography
Born in Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Joan Hickson was a daughter of Edith Mary (née Bogle) and Alfred Harold Hickson, a shoe manufacturer. She made her stage debut in 1927, and for several years worked throughout the United Kingdom and achieved success playing comedic, often eccentric characters in London's West End, including the role of the co*ckney 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.
In the 1940s she appeared on-stage in an Agatha Christie play, Appointment with Death, which was seen by Christie who wrote in a note to her, "I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple". From 1963–66 she played Mrs. Peace, housekeeper to Reverend Stephen Young (played by Donald Sinden) in the highly rated TV series Our Man At St. Mark's. Hickson played the housekeeper in the Marple film Murder, She Said in 1961 (based on Agatha Christie's original novel 4.50 From Paddington), which starred Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple. From 1970–71, she played Mrs Pugsley in Bachelor Father. Hickson played Mrs Chambers in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? In 1986, she played the part of Mrs. Trellis in Clockwise.
Her stage career included roles in Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, the Tony Hatch-Jackie Trent 1975 musical The Card, and Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce, for which she won a 1979 Tony Award for 'Best Featured Actress in a Play'. In 1980 she appeared in yet another Agatha Christie production, as Mrs. Rivington in Why Didn't They Ask Evans?.
The BBC began filming the works of Agatha Christie in the mid 1980s, and were conscious of the criticism that had been levelled at the portrayal of Miss Marple given by Margaret Rutherford. In making a new series, the makers determined to remain faithful to the plotlines and locales of Christie's stories, and most importantly to represent Miss Marple as written. Hickson played the role in all 12 adaptations of the novels produced from 1984 to 1992, and received two BAFTA nominations for Best TV Actress, 1987 and 1988. When the OBE was bestowed on Hickson in June 1987, Queen Elizabeth II was reported to have said, "You play the part just as one envisages it." When Joan Hickson retired from the role, believing that she should stop while the programme was still at the peak of its popularity, she stated that she had no intention of retiring from acting altogether.
Wivenhoe
From 1958, Joan Hickson lived in Rose Lane, Wivenhoe along the River Colne 43 miles from London in Essex, until her death in 1998. A plaque now marks the house where she lived for 40 years.
Marriage
In October 1932 in Hampstead, London Hickson married Eric Norman Butler (born 2 September 1902 in Westbury, Wiltshire), a physician by whom she had a son (Nicholas, born 1936 in London) and daughter (Caroline, born 1939 in London). Her husband died in June 1967 in Colchester, Essex.
Death
Hickson died in Colchester General Hospital from a stroke, aged 92. She is interred at Sidbury Cemetery under her married name, Joan Bogle Butler in Sidbury, Devon.
Miss Marple filmography
Series 1
- The Body in the Library (1984)
- The Moving Finger (1985)
- A Murder Is Announced (1985)
- A Pocket Full of Rye (1985)
Series 2
- The Murder at the Vicarage (1986) – BAFTA nomination
- Sleeping Murder (1987)
- At Bertram's Hotel (1987)
- Nemesis (1987) – BAFTA nomination
Series 3
- 4.50 from Paddington (1987)
- A Caribbean Mystery (1989)
- They Do It With Mirrors (1991)
- The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1992)
Partial filmography
- Trouble in Store (1934) -short as Mabel
- Widow's Might (1935) as Burroughs
- The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936) as Effie
- Love from a Stranger (1937) as Emmy
- The Lilac Domino (1937) as Katrina, school dustmaid
- Second Thoughts (1938) as Ellen
- Sailors Don't Care (1940) as Woman Carried Ashore (uncredited)
- Freedom Radio (1941) as Katie
- The Saint Meets the Tiger (1943) as Mary (Aunt Agatha's Maid) (uncredited)
- Don't Take It to Heart (1944) as Mrs. Pike
- The Rake's Progress (1945) as Miss Parker
- The Trojan Brothers (1946) as Ada
- I See a Dark Stranger (1946) as Manx Hotel Manageress
- So Well Remembered (1947) as Mother (uncredited)
- This Was a Woman (1948) as Miss Johnson
- Just William's Luck (1948) as Hubert's Mother
- Bond Street (1948) as Blanche - Seamstress (uncredited)
- The Guinea Pig (1948) as Mrs. Read
- It's Hard to Be Good (1948) as Mending Woman (uncredited)
- Marry Me! (1949) as Mrs. Pearson
- Don't Ever Leave Me (1949) as Mrs. Pearson (uncredited)
- Celia (1949) as Mrs. Haldane
- Seven Days to Noon (1950) as Mrs. Peckett
- The Magnet (1950) as Mrs. Ward
- Hell is Sold Out (1951) as Hortense, the housekeeper
- High Treason (1951) as Mrs. Ellis
- The Magic Box (1951) as Mrs. Stukely
- Blind Man's Bluff (1952) as Mrs. Kipps
- The Card (1952) as Mrs. Codleyn
- The Tall Headlines (1952) as Waitress
- Curtain Up (1952) as Harry's Landlady
- No Haunt for a Gentleman (1952) as Mme. Omskaya
- Hindle Wakes (1952) as Mrs. Hawthorn
- Deadly Nightshade (1953) as Mrs. Fenton
- Shoot First (1953) as Woman Station Announcer
- Sailor of the King (1953) as Hotel Manager (uncredited)
- Love in Pawn (1953) as Woman in Telephone Box (uncredited)
- The Million Pound Note (1954) as Maggie (uncredited)
- Doctor in the House (1954) as Mrs Groaker
- The House Across the Lake (1954) as Mrs. Hardcastle
- What Every Woman Wants (1954) as Polly Ann
- Dance, Little Lady (1954) as Mrs. Matthews
- The Crowded Day (1954) as Mrs. Jones
- To Dorothy a Son (1954) as Pub Landlady (uncredited)
- Mad About Men (1954) as Mrs. Forster
- As Long as They're Happy (1955) as Barmaid
- Doctor at Sea (1955) as Mrs. Thomas
- Value for Money (1955) as Mrs. Perkins
- The Woman for Joe (1955) as Publican's Wife (uncredited)
- A Time to Kill (1955) as Miss Edinger
- Simon and Laura (1955) as Barmaid
- An Alligator Named Daisy (1955) as Piano Customer (uncredited)
- Lost (1956) as Pharmacist (uncredited)
- Jumping for Joy (1956) as Lady Emily Cranfield
- The Man Who Never Was (1956) as Landlady
- Port of Escape (1956) as Rosalie Watchett
- The Extra Day (1956) as Mrs. West
- The Last Man to Hang? (1956) as Mrs. Prynne
- Child in the House (1956) as Cook
- Carry on Admiral (1957) as Mother
- No Time for Tears (1957) as Sister Duckworth
- Barnacle Bill (1957) as Mrs. Kent
- Happy Is the Bride (1958) as Mrs. Bowels
- Law and Disorder (1958) as Aunt Florence
- Chain of Events (1958) as Barmaid
- Behind the Mask (1958) (uncredited)
- The Horse's Mouth (1958) as Woman in queue at Tate Gallery (uncredited)
- Carry On Nurse (1959) as Sister
- The 39 Steps (1959) as Miss Dobson
- Upstairs and Downstairs (1959) as Rosemary
- Please Turn Over (1959) as Saleswoman
- Carry On Constable (1960) as Mrs. May
- Barnaby Rudge (1960) as Mrs. Varden
- Doctor in Love (1960) as Nurse (uncredited)
- The Three Worlds of Gulliver (1960) as Patient at Dr. Gulliver's Surgery (uncredited)
- No Kidding (1960) as Cook
- His and Hers (1961) as Phoebe
- Carry On Regardless (1960) as Head Matron
- Raising the Wind (1961) as Mrs. Bostwick
- Murder, She Said (1961) as Mrs. Kidder
- Crooks Anonymous (1962)
- In the Doghouse (1962) as Miss Gibbs
- I Thank a Fool (1962) as Landlady
- Nurse on Wheels (1963) as Mrs. Wood
- Heavens Above! (1963) as Housewife
- The Secret of My Success (1965) as Mrs. Pringle
- Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (1968) as Landlady
- Carry On Loving (1970) as Mrs. Grubb
- Friends (1971) as Lady in Bookstore
- A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972) as Grace
- Theatre of Blood (1973) as Mrs. Sprout
- Carry On Girls (1973) as Mrs. Dukes
- Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974) as Mrs. Radlett
- One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975) as Mrs. Gibbons
- Yanks (1979) as Mrs. Moody
- Great Expectations (1981) as Miss Havisham
- Gandhi (1982) as Woman in court (uncredited)
- The Wicked Lady (1983) as Aunt Agatha
- Clockwise (1986) as Mrs. Trellis
- King of the Wind (1990) as duch*ess of Marlborough
- Century (1993) as Mrs. Whitweather (final film role)
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