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‘An Old Character Bag’: Joan Hickson as Miss Marple
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Joan Hickson (1906 - 1998) جوان هيكسون
Joan Hickson was a British actress who was born in Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom on 5 August 1906 as Joan Bogle Hickson and died in Colchester, Essex,...Read more England, United Kingdom on 17 October 1998 from a stroke. She was nominated for a BAFTA Television Award in 1987 and 1988 and won an RTS Television Award in 1987. She was married to Eric Norman Butler (1932–1967) and had two children, remaining with him until his death. Her most important works include Murder She Said (1961), Agatha Christie's Miss Marple (1986), Miss Marple: Nemesis (1987), and Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1992). The daughter of a shoemaker, she graduated from Oldfield School, trained for 3 years at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art RADA, and began her theatrical career in the regional theater in 1927. She toured for several years throughout the United Kingdom and presented many comedies in the West End theate
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Joan Hickson OBE - 'Miss Marple' [1906 - 1998]
Joan Hickson at her home in Rose Lane, Wivenhoe, Essex
Photo: the late Sue Murray ARPS
Joan Hickson playing the role of Miss Marple
The Daily Mirror interviewed Joan Hickson in December 1992
Daily Mirror via Wivenhoe Memories Collection
Actress Joan Hickson lived in Wivenhoe for a great many years where she was known by her married name of Joan Butler rather than by the name known by those people who enjoyed her 64 year career on the stage, plus over 100 films (not counting films made for television). Of course, to millions of viewers as well as to us who fondly remember her, she had simply become known as Miss Marple, Agatha Christie’s famous detective, in which she starred in the series of 12 films.
She starred in 12 Miss Marple mysteries, rather at the end of her career, filmed by BBC television. These were seen in more than 30 countries including China and the former Soviet Union.
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