She made her first film appearance in 1934. She played 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 stage debut in 1927, then worked for several years throughout the United Kingdom, achieving success playing comedic, often eccentric characters in the West End of London. After boarding at Oldfield School in Swanage, Dorset, she went on to train at RADA in London. She also narrated a number of Miss Marple stories on audiobooks.īorn in Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Hickson was a daughter of Edith Mary (née Bogle) and Alfred Harold Hickson, a shoe manufacturer. She was known for her role as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the television series Miss Marple. Joan Bogle Hickson, OBE (5 August 1906 – 17 October 1998) was an English actress of theatre, film and television. They are listed under proper litterary sources, if any.Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play and Miss Lemon, but that is probably because the same credits are repeated regardless who is actually in the episode. She’s also listed as appearing in most of the Japanese animated television films, with H.P, C.H. Miss Marple is substituted for other characters in the films based on the following non-Marple sourcers, see respective character for more on the titles. # Les petits meurtres d’Agatha Christie: Un meurtre en sommeil – France/Switserland 2012 Eric Woreth – Antoine Duléry, Marius Colucci, Jennifer Decker # Agatha Christie’s Marple – UK/US 2006 Edward Hall – Geraldine McEwan (M.M.), Julian Wadham, Emilio Doorgasingh # Myshelovka – Soviet Union 1990 Samson Samsonov # Zagadka Endkhauza – Soviet Union 1989 Vladimir Debenyov # Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple – UK/US/Australia 1987 John Davies – Joan Hickson (M.M.) # Agatha Christie’s Marple – UK/US 2007 Nicolas Winding Refn – Geraldine McEwan (M.M.), Laura Michelle Kelly, Dan Stevens # Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple – UK 1987 David Tucker – Joan Hickson (M.M.) # Agatha Christie’s Marple – UK/US 2007 Dan Zeff – Geraldine McEwan (M.M.), Isabella Parriss (Young M.M.), James Howard # Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple – UK/US/Australia 1987 Mary McMurray – Joan Hickson (M.M.) * = short story – ** = novel – # = film, play = Miss Marpleġst book publication is in UK, unless otherwise specified.

Miss marple sleeping murders 2006