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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.
Born in Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Joan Hickson was a daughter of shoe manufacturer Alfred Harold Hickson and his wife, Edith Mary Bogle. 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 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 first film appearance in 1934, and the numerous supporting roles of her career included several Carry On films including Sister in Carry On Nurse; in a wonderfully comedic moment, her character in Carry On Girls discovers that someone has played a practical joke on her, waving her underwear from a flagpole. Joan then approaches Jack Douglas, and informs him that she would like him to accompany her across to the promenade. When he asks why, she exclaims – with impeccable timing – "Well, I want you to take my knickers down!"
Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in 12 of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in 20 short stories. Miss Marple is an elderly spinster who lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur consulting detective. Alongside Hercule Poirot, she is one of the most loved and famous of Christie's characters and has been portrayed numerous times on screen. Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Royal Magazine in December 1927, "The Tuesday Night Club", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems (1932). Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930.
The character of Miss Marple is based on Christie's step grandmother, or her Aunt (Margaret West), and her cronies. Agatha Christie attributed the inspiration for the character of Miss Marple to a number of sources, stating that Miss Marple was "the sort of old lady who would have been rather like some of my step grandmother's Ealing cronies – old ladies whom I have met in so many villages where I have gone to stay as a girl". Christie also used material from her fictional creation, spinster Caroline Sheppard, who appeared in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. When Michael Morton adapted the novel for the stage, he replaced the character of Caroline with a young girl. This change saddened Christie and she determined to give old maids a voice: Miss Marple was born.
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright. She also wrote six romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best known for the 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections that she wrote under her own name, most of which revolve around the investigative work of such characters as Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple, Parker Pyne, Harley Quin/Mr Satterthwaite and Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. She wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, The Mousetrap. In 1971 she was made a Dame for her contribution to literature.
Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon. She served in a hospital during the First World War before marrying and starting a family in London. She was initially unsuccessful at getting her work published, but in 1920 The Bodley Head press published her novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles, featuring the character of Hercule Poirot. This launched her literary career.
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple may refer to one of two adaptations of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple series:
Marple may refer to:
BBC News: Death of Joan Hickson (1998)
The Thirteen Problems by Joan Hickson Full Audiobook
Miss Marple S01E01 The Body in the Library Part 1 Blu-ray 720
Joan Hickson - Biography
Joan Hickson Miss Marple A Pocketful Of Rye Theme
Hickson reads Agatha Christie Tape Measure Murder
Joan Hickson Miss Marple Main Title Theme
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple 450 from Paddington - full movie
POIROT & MISS MARPLE David Suchet & Joan Hickson
Joan Hickson Miss Marple At Bertram's Hotel Theme
BBC News read by Peter Sissons: Death of Joan Hickson October 1998
Miss Marple, the spinster detective who is one of the most famous characters created by English crime writer Agatha Christie, is portrayed by Joan Hickson who starred in a dozen television mysteries about Miss Marple over the course of a decade. Between 1984 and 1992 the British Broadcasting Corporation in association with Australia's Seven Network and America's Arts and Entertainments Network, produced an irregular series of twelve Miss Marple mysteries. The elderly, deceptively delicate Joan Hickson starred in each of these as the amateur detective from the bucolic village of St. Mary Mead. Miss Marple S01E01 The Body in the Library Part 1 Air Date: December 26, 1984 Genres: Crime, Drama Miss Marple Miss Marple Full Episodes Miss Marple Season 1 Full Episodes Miss Marple Season 2 Full ...
This is a celebration of the music for Agatha Christie's Miss Marple starring Joan Hickson by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley. Music is from CD released in 1993, performed by Video Symphonic.
Hickson reads Agatha Christie Tape Measure Murder short story And please do check out the other videos on my channel for more of the same and other exciting treats!
This is a celebration of the music for Agatha Christie's Miss Marple starring Joan Hickson by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley. Music is from CD released in 1993, performed by Video Symphonic.
No copyright exists and freely available on Youtube.
This is a celebration of the music for Agatha Christie's Miss Marple starring Joan Hickson by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley. Music is from CD released in 1993, performed by Video Symphonic.
Miss Marple, the spinster detective who is one of the most famous characters created by English crime writer Agatha Christie, is portrayed by Joan Hickson who starred in a dozen television mysteries about Miss Marple over the course of a decade. Between 1984 and 1992 the British Broadcasting Corporation in association with Australia's Seven Network and America's Arts and Entertainments Network, produced an irregular series of twelve Miss Marple mysteries. The elderly, deceptively delicate Joan Hickson starred in each of these as the amateur detective from the bucolic village of St. Mary Mead. Miss Marple S01E01 The Body in the Library Part 1 Air Date: December 26, 1984 Genres: Crime, Drama Miss Marple Miss Marple Full Episodes Miss Marple Season 1 Full Episodes Miss Marple Season 2 Full ...
Hickson reads Agatha Christie Tape Measure Murder short story And please do check out the other videos on my channel for more of the same and other exciting treats!
A superb film which throws a fascinating insight onto how life once was - or supposedly was - in the Public School system. Richard Attenborough, at 25, plays 14 year old Jack Read, a working-class tobacconist's son, who wins a scholarship to a Public School. Bernard Miles (who also had a hand in writing the screenplay) and Joan Hickson play his parents, and the cast includes many well-known acting names among whom are Sheila Sim (Attenborough's wife), Robert Flemyng, Cecil Trouncer, Timothy Bateson, Herbert (Lom) Lomas, Anthony Newley, Anthony Nicholls, Kynaston Reeves, Olive Sloane, and uncredited James Kenney and Edward Judd among other uncredited actors. This was the second film for which John Wooldridge wrote the music - he also conducted it and although not a very prolific film comp...
BBC News read by Peter Sissons: Death of Joan Hickson October 1998
No copyright exists and freely available on Youtube.
O sensacional encontro entre o ator David Suchet e a atriz Joan Hickson, caracterizados como Poirot e Miss Marple.
A tribute to the Definitive Miss Marple, Joan Hickson (1906-1998)
Liz Fraser is a BAFTA-nominated English actress, best known for her comedy roles as a provocative "dumb blonde" in British films of the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Fraser is known for her many appearances in British films and television series, including Hancock's Half Hour, Citizen James, Last of the Summer Wine and The Avengers episode "The Girl from Auntie". As Elizabeth Fraser, over a period of nearly six months, she appeared in numerous editions of the Associated-Rediffusion soap opera Sixpenny Corner (1955–56). She played Mrs Brent, a dead/missing girl's mother, in "Nemesis" – one of the Joan Hickson Miss Marple episodes for the BBC in 1987. She gave a strong and memorable performance in The Professionals episode "Backtrack" first broadcast in 1979 as Margery Harper (Marge) a fairly glamo...
He may be best known as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, but this summer David Suchet is playing a different role, Lady Bracknell in classic comedy The Importance Of Being Earnest. Take a look at how he transforms for the show.
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Miss Lemon... David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson & Pauline Moran. Interesting fact: from 1965 to about 1970, Pauline played bass guitar in the all-girl band the She Trinity.
BBC News read by Peter Sissons: Death of Joan Hickson October 1998
Miss Marple, the spinster detective who is one of the most famous characters created by English crime writer Agatha Christie, is portrayed by Joan Hickson who starred in a dozen television mysteries about Miss Marple over the course of a decade. Between 1984 and 1992 the British Broadcasting Corporation in association with Australia's Seven Network and America's Arts and Entertainments Network, produced an irregular series of twelve Miss Marple mysteries. The elderly, deceptively delicate Joan Hickson starred in each of these as the amateur detective from the bucolic village of St. Mary Mead. Miss Marple S01E01 The Body in the Library Part 1 Air Date: December 26, 1984 Genres: Crime, Drama Miss Marple Miss Marple Full Episodes Miss Marple Season 1 Full Episodes Miss Marple Season 2 Full ...
This is a celebration of the music for Agatha Christie's Miss Marple starring Joan Hickson by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley. Music is from CD released in 1993, performed by Video Symphonic.
Hickson reads Agatha Christie Tape Measure Murder short story And please do check out the other videos on my channel for more of the same and other exciting treats!
This is a celebration of the music for Agatha Christie's Miss Marple starring Joan Hickson by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley. Music is from CD released in 1993, performed by Video Symphonic.
No copyright exists and freely available on Youtube.
This is a celebration of the music for Agatha Christie's Miss Marple starring Joan Hickson by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley. Music is from CD released in 1993, performed by Video Symphonic.
Miss Marple, the spinster detective who is one of the most famous characters created by English crime writer Agatha Christie, is portrayed by Joan Hickson who starred in a dozen television mysteries about Miss Marple over the course of a decade. Between 1984 and 1992 the British Broadcasting Corporation in association with Australia's Seven Network and America's Arts and Entertainments Network, produced an irregular series of twelve Miss Marple mysteries. The elderly, deceptively delicate Joan Hickson starred in each of these as the amateur detective from the bucolic village of St. Mary Mead. Miss Marple S01E01 The Body in the Library Part 1 Air Date: December 26, 1984 Genres: Crime, Drama Miss Marple Miss Marple Full Episodes Miss Marple Season 1 Full Episodes Miss Marple Season 2 Full ...
Hickson reads Agatha Christie Tape Measure Murder short story And please do check out the other videos on my channel for more of the same and other exciting treats!
A superb film which throws a fascinating insight onto how life once was - or supposedly was - in the Public School system. Richard Attenborough, at 25, plays 14 year old Jack Read, a working-class tobacconist's son, who wins a scholarship to a Public School. Bernard Miles (who also had a hand in writing the screenplay) and Joan Hickson play his parents, and the cast includes many well-known acting names among whom are Sheila Sim (Attenborough's wife), Robert Flemyng, Cecil Trouncer, Timothy Bateson, Herbert (Lom) Lomas, Anthony Newley, Anthony Nicholls, Kynaston Reeves, Olive Sloane, and uncredited James Kenney and Edward Judd among other uncredited actors. This was the second film for which John Wooldridge wrote the music - he also conducted it and although not a very prolific film comp...