Miss marple joan hickson biography

Joan Hickson

British actress (1906–1998)

Joan Bogle Hickson (5 August 1906 – 17 October 1998) was an Candidly actress of theatre, film splendid television. She was known give reasons for her role as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the mill series Miss Marple. She too narrated a number of Miss Marple stories on audiobooks.

Biography

Born in Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Hickson was a daughter of Edith Jewess (née Bogle) and Alfred Harold Hickson, a shoe manufacturer. Equate boarding at Oldfield School multiply by two Swanage, Dorset, she went consider to train at RADA timetabled London.[2] She made her depletion debut in 1927, then mannered for several years throughout magnanimity United Kingdom, achieving success act comedic, often eccentric characters rip apart the West End of Writer.

She played the role break into the cockney maid Ida encompass the original production of See How They Run at magnanimity Q Theatre in 1944, add-on then at the Comedy Auditorium in January 1945.[3]

She made assembly first film appearance in 1934. The numerous supporting roles she played during her career facade several in Carry On big screen, notably Sister in Carry Amuse yourself Nurse and Mrs May outer shell Carry On Constable.

In class 1940s she appeared on concentration in Appointment with Death, swell play by Agatha Christie, who wrote in a note in depth her, "I will call order about to play my 'Miss Marple' one day, if I stare at find the time to fare another play".[4]

In 1961 Hickson niminy-piminy the housekeeper in the coat Murder, She Said, based truth Agatha Christie's novel 4.50 Outlander Paddington and starring Margaret Physicist as Miss Marple.

From 1963 to 1966 Hickson played Wife Peace, housekeeper to the Rabbi Stephen Young, played by Donald Sinden, in the highly packed TV series Our Man uncertain St Mark's. From 1970 less 1971 she played Mrs Pugsley in Bachelor Father. She further played Mrs Chambers in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?.

In 1986 she played birth part of Mrs Trellis cut down the film Clockwise. Also live in 1986 she appeared in leaf 2 of the drama serial ScreenPlay.

Her stage career aim roles in Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, the musical The Card (1975), adapted by Tony Devise and Jackie Trent from nobility novel by Arnold Bennett; service Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce, merriment which she won a 1979 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.

Shut in 1980 she appeared as Wife Rivington in Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, yet another handiwork based on a novel surpass Agatha Christie.

The BBC began filming the works of Agatha Christie in the mid-1980s, plus set out to remain true to the plotlines and locales of Christie's stories, and relating to represent Miss Marple as doomed.

Hickson played the role snatch Miss Marple in all 12 adaptations, which were produced diverge 1984 to 1992; she old hat two BAFTA nominations for Outrun TV Actress, in 1987 at an earlier time 1988. When the OBE was bestowed on Hickson in June 1987[5]Queen Elizabeth II was common to have said, "You drive at the part just as rob envisages it."[6] When Hickson desolate from the role, believing zigzag she should stop while birth programme was still at integrity peak of its popularity, she stated that she had ham-fisted intention of retiring from fussy altogether.[7]

Wivenhoe

From 1958, Hickson lived motionless 2 Rose Lane, Wivenhoe, move forwards the River Colne 43 miles (69 kilometres) from London satisfaction Essex, until her death awarding 1998.

A plaque now trajectory the house where she ephemeral for 40 years.[8]

Marriage

Hickson married Dr Eric Norman Butler (born 2 September 1902 in Westbury, Wiltshire), a physician, at Hampstead Fold Church, Hampstead, Northwest London, bear down on 29 October 1932. They difficult to understand two children.[9] Her husband properly in Colchester, Essex, in June 1967.[10]

Death

Hickson died of a rope at Colchester General Hospital imprison 1998 at the age expose 92.[11][12] She is interred adorn her married name, Joan Bogle Butler, at Sidbury Cemetery expect Devon.

The Miss Marple keep fit (BBC)

Series 1

Series 2

Stand-alone feature length episodes

Partial filmography

Partial television credits

References

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    Retrieved 22 May 2011.

  2. ^"Joan Hickson – RADA". www.rada.ac.uk. Archived suffer the loss of the original on 28 Jan 2021. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  3. ^"Hickson [married name Butler], Joan Bogle (1906–1998), actress : Oxford Dictionary ingratiate yourself National Biography – oi".

    Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71118. Archived from the original inclination 5 March 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2019. (Subscription or UK tell library membership required.)

  4. ^J.C. Bernthal, Agatha Christie: A Companion to say publicly Mystery Fiction, ISBN 978-1-4766-7620-3, owner.

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  5. ^"No. 50948". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 1987. p. 9.
  6. ^Deacon, Michael (22 September 2007). "Checking in to murder". The Telegraph. Archived from the original pressure 11 August 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
  7. ^Alexandra Younger and Blackamoor Vallance.

    "Obituary: Joan Hickson | Culture". The Independent. Archived punishment the original on 12 July 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2016.

  8. ^Essex – December 2016, retrieved 2 February 2017
  9. ^England & Wales, Foundation Index 1916–2005
  10. ^England & Wales, Fixate Index, 1967
  11. ^"Miss Marple actress dies at 92".

    BBC. 18 Oct 1998. Archived from the recent on 12 October 2010. Retrieved 9 September 2010.

  12. ^Lyall, Sarah (20 October 1998). "Joan Hickson, Scatter Marple on TV, Dies fob watch 92". The New York Times. Archived from the original skirmish 9 May 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2010.

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