Actress. Joan Hickman was a 20th-century British actress, who is still fondly remembered into the 21st century for her film role as "Miss Marple," a fictional character of mystery writer Agatha Christie. Kingsthorpe, born, was a daughter of Edith Mary (née Bogle) and Alfred Harold Hickson, a shoe manufacturer. Joan Hickson began her stage career with a provincial theater in 1927, appearing in a series of West End comedies, portraying mostly the role of a confused or eccentric middle-aged woman. Appearing at the Regent's Park Open Air Theater during World War II, her first screen role was in the 1934 movie "Trouble in Store." With over eighty movie roles to her credit, including Hickson remains mostly remembered for her 'Miss Marple' roles, with her first link to Agatha Christie's fictional character going back to 1946, when her 'Miss Pryce' impersonation on the stage in "Appointment with Death" led Christie to write her: "I hope you will play my dear Miss Marple." Playing the housekeeper in the 1961 Marple film "Murder, She Said," based on Christie's novel "4.50 From Paddington", at seventy-eight-years of age, Hickson was finally chosen to play the role for which she remains best remembered, appearing in a television series that was to run for eight years, ending only when she insisted on retiring at the age of eighty-six. A resident of Rose Lane, Wivenhoe, along the River Colne, forty-three miles from London in Essex for forty years, Hickson was married to a neurologist by whom she had two children. Awarded the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1987, a stroke brought her end at the Colchester General Hospital at the venerable age of ninety two. Her grave inscription lists her under her married name, Joan Bogle Butler.
Actress. Joan Hickman was a 20th-century British actress, who is still fondly remembered into the 21st century for her film role as "Miss Marple," a fictional character of mystery writer Agatha Christie. Kingsthorpe, born, was a daughter of Edith Mary (née Bogle) and Alfred Harold Hickson, a shoe manufacturer. Joan Hickson began her stage career with a provincial theater in 1927, appearing in a series of West End comedies, portraying mostly the role of a confused or eccentric middle-aged woman. Appearing at the Regent's Park Open Air Theater during World War II, her first screen role was in the 1934 movie "Trouble in Store." With over eighty movie roles to her credit, including Hickson remains mostly remembered for her 'Miss Marple' roles, with her first link to Agatha Christie's fictional character going back to 1946, when her 'Miss Pryce' impersonation on the stage in "Appointment with Death" led Christie to write her: "I hope you will play my dear Miss Marple." Playing the housekeeper in the 1961 Marple film "Murder, She Said," based on Christie's novel "4.50 From Paddington", at seventy-eight-years of age, Hickson was finally chosen to play the role for which she remains best remembered, appearing in a television series that was to run for eight years, ending only when she insisted on retiring at the age of eighty-six. A resident of Rose Lane, Wivenhoe, along the River Colne, forty-three miles from London in Essex for forty years, Hickson was married to a neurologist by whom she had two children. Awarded the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1987, a stroke brought her end at the Colchester General Hospital at the venerable age of ninety two. Her grave inscription lists her under her married name, Joan Bogle Butler.
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