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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 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, Hickson was a daughter of Edith Mary (née Bogle) and Alfred Harold Hickson, a shoe manufacturer. Boarding at Oldfield School at Swanage in Dorset she went on to train at RADA in London. Making her stage debut in 1927, she worked for several years 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. The numerous supporting roles of her career included several Carry On films including Sister in Carry On Nurse and Mrs May in Carry On Constable.
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30 March 1953
An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a hotbed of spies and secret agents.
01 September 1979
During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.
06 September 1961
'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker.
17 December 1957
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as ''
23 July 1936
An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.
03 January 1963
Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse.
20 September 1970
The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of Much-Snoggin-in-the-Green.
31 March 1962
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA.
09 July 1975
Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese spies.
13 December 1955
Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him.
25 February 1952
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so.
09 June 1958
When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out about his criminal past.
30 October 1950
When Professor Willingdon becomes wary of the nuclear weapons he is helping build, he steals a warhead and threatens to detonate it in London in seven days unless the government begins nuclear disarmament.
09 August 1955
A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.
04 July 1946
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J.
04 April 1961
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting… and demolishing a house.
26 September 1961
Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.
20 July 1945
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison.
10 June 1954
Young couple Mark and Jane are forced to thrash out marital problems in a borrowed room in Jane’s parents’ tiny house.
01 May 1972
A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead.
01 November 1960
A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition.
18 November 1968
A asylum patient intrudes upon a house party referring to the guest of honor—Count Dracula—as "Master.
29 August 1949
An actress, urged by her detective boyfriend, takes a job as housekeeper for a wealthy elderly woman.
25 May 1990
In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good.
17 December 1959
The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller featuring characters obviously based on the local population.
01 October 1954
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
02 November 1955
A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.
14 August 1956
A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive.
17 May 1962
After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.
30 March 1980
This intriguing story is set in the 1930s at a country house, where two amateur sleuths, Bobby Jones and Lady Frankie Derwent, try to unravel the mystery behind a tale of murder, suspense and false identities.
22 January 1968
Herman inherits a greyhound and decides to make his fortune by dog racing. After traveling from Manchester to London in the hope of entering a national invitational, Herman and his friends find work in a pop group, and Herman falls in love.
14 May 1957
Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the other is the captain of a ship.
01 November 1955
A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to point at the man.
01 March 1953
Escapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful.
06 December 1945
Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, making dissipation his career.
01 October 1950
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.
10 February 1938
George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidentally snaps crooks at work.
18 April 1937
Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery.
04 February 1941
Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps.
26 October 1948
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.
30 January 1959
In Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital altogether. The formidable Matron's debut gives everyone a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her.
12 May 1948
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.
04 October 1957
The interwoven dramas of staff and patients in Mayfield Children's Hospital, where the doctors and nurses are in the business of restoring children's lives.
22 February 1960
With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station.
16 July 1986
Neglected by her family, kept apart from her grandchildren, desperately short of money, Bea begins to gamble - at first for small stakes, but ultimately for the highest stake of all: revenge for the past.
13 November 1944
A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.
30 September 1958
When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences
04 March 1958
In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot.
01 August 1956
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
07 January 1954
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds.
16 November 1954
Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.
01 January 1961
Author-explorer Reggie Blake takes an unorthodox approach to his craft, apparently finding inspiration in the adventures suggested by his agent Charles Lunton; it matters little that most of his experiences are wildly embellished or even entirely fictitious.
01 January 1956
Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various performers employed as extras in a new film that's currently shooting.
03 April 1956
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack.
13 July 1954
When a ballerina's career is ended after she's injured in a traffic accident, her husband decides to try and turn their young daughter into a ballet star.
01 May 1956
Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene, commandeer a boat and take the three women on board hostage as they try to outrun the law.
16 September 1974
An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel
01 January 1976
Alice's attempts to reach the children by climbing down the chimney of their grandmother's house result in various people being stranded on the roof.
31 January 1956
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London.
11 November 1958
Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the Beeders while they go on an extended vacation; he paints a mural on their wall, pawns their valuables and, along with the sculptor Abel, inadvertently smashes a large hole in their floor.
