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Joan Hickson

Signed photograph of English actress, Joan Hickson. Picture reads ‘All good wishes, Joan Hickson’ — Joan Hickson, English actress, signed photo

Joan Hickson

(1906–98)

British actress (d. 92) | Seven Days to Noon (1950), The Guinea Pig (1948), The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)

British character actress, in innumerable films as understanding mum or dotty aunt

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At the age of nearly 80, JH made a big hit on TV in adaptations of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple stories.

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Screenshot from Agatha Christie’s England (2021) (2) featuring Joan Hickson. Miss Marple: At Bertram’s Hotel. BBC, 1987 — Agatha Christie’s England (2021) screenshot (2) | Joan Hickson

Signed photograph of English actress, Joan Hickson. Picture reads ‘All good wishes, Joan Hickson’ — Joan Hickson, English actress, signed photo

Miss Marple volume 3 Blu-ray from BBC Home Entertainment. Features Joan Hickson in A Caribbean Mystery, At Bertram’s Hotel, Nemesis, Sleeping Murder — Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple Vol 3 Blu-ray – BBC Home Entertainment

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Born

Joan Hickson was born in Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire on 5^th August, 1906.
Died

Joan Hickson died in Colchester, Essex on 17^th October, 1998, aged 92.

Watch Joan Hickson on British television

- Heavens Above! (1963)
- A northern parson with proletarian sympathies is accidentally appointed to a snobby village where he converts the dowager aristocrat to works of absurd charity. Eventually he has the whole country in an uproar and takes the place of an astronaut.
- Tomorrow at 5.40pm on Talking Pictures TV
- Doctor at Sea (1955)
- Simon Sparrow becomes medical officer on a cargo steamer.
- Friday at 4.10pm on Talking Pictures TV
- Value for Money (1955)
- A Yorkshire businessman determines to broaden his outlook, and falls in love with a London showgirl.
- Sunday at 11.55pm on Talking Pictures TV
- The 39 Steps (1959)
- A spy is murdered; the man who has befriended her is suspected, but eludes the police until a chase across Scotland produces the real villains. Remake of the 1935 version.
- 9^th July at 6.10pm on Talking Pictures TV
- Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple (1984–92)
- Television series based on the Miss Marple murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie, starring Joan Hickson.
- The Body in the Library (1984, S1, Ep 1)
- 11^th July at 8pm on Drama
- 11^th July at 9pm on Drama Plus 1
- Miss Marple assists her neighbours when a young girl from a seaside resort is found dead in their library.