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Acting

Joan Hickson

Career: Active from 1937 to 1993, busiest in 1987 with 4 main titles.

Leading roles: 21
top three billing

Average score: 69/100

Highest rated: Seven Days to Noon
84/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 76 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Joan Hickson Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.1, average 5.4
Violence
2.5, average 4.1
Adrenaline
3.1, average 4.8
Fantasy
0.4, average 1.7

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Agatha Christie Adaptation 9
Classic Whodunit 7
Cozy Mystery 7
Character-Driven 6
Village Intrigue 3
Period Drama 3
Deductive Reasoning 3
Gentle Suspense 3
Intricate Plot 3
Village Life 3
Period Piece 3
Amateur Detective 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

159

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

as Mrs. K

1990s

6 titles · average score 66

What's a Carry On?

as Sister / Mrs. Dukes (archive footage) (uncredited)

Century

56

as Mrs. Whitweather

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

70

as Miss Marple

Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

74

as Miss Marple

Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait

as Narrator

King of the Wind

63

as Duchess of Marlborough

1980s

27 titles · average score 71

Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery

70

as Miss Marple

Miss Marple: Nemesis

76

TV show · as Miss Jane Marple

Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder

75

TV show · as Miss Jane Marple

Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel

75

TV show · as Miss Jane Marple

Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington

75

as Miss Jane Marple

Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage

71

as Miss Marple

Clockwise

73

as Mrs. Ellie Trellis

Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye

74

TV show · as Miss Jane Marple

Miss Marple: The Moving Finger

76

TV show · as Miss Marple

Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced

77

TV show · as Miss Jane Marple

Miss Marple: The Body in the Library

76

TV show · as Miss Marple

Miss Marple

83

TV show · as Miss Marple

1970s

25 titles · average score 63

Yanks

52

as Mrs. Moody

The BBC Television Shakespeare

TV show · as Widow

Strangers

TV show · as Miss Robinson

Tiptoe Through the Tulips

as Mother

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

77

TV show · as Mrs. Chambers

Theatre of Blood

80

as Mrs. Sprout

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

61

as Grace

Crown Court

65

TV show · as Elizabeth Penn

Sykes

70

TV show · as Nurse

Friends

62

as Lady in Bookstore

Budgie

73

TV show · as Edith Broughton

Play for Today

72

TV show · as Mother

1960s

28 titles · average score 60

Dracula

as Mrs. Weston

ITV Playhouse

TV show · as Matron / Mrs. Massie

Mystery and Imagination

TV show · as Mrs Weston

NET Playhouse

TV show · as Mrs. Jenkins

as Maggie's mother

Theatre 625

TV show · as Elsie Amble

Our Man At St Mark's

TV show

Espionage

TV show · as Sara Forsythe

Murder She Said

82

as Mrs. Kidder

No Kidding

58

as Cook

Danger Man

76

TV show · as Mrs. Curtis

Carry On Constable

58

as Mrs. May

1950s

51 titles · average score 63

Law and Disorder

63

as Aunt Florence

Chain of Events

64

as Barmaid

Port of Escape

as Rosalie Watchett

Value for Money

64

as Mrs. Perkins

Dixon of Dock Green

64

TV show · as Elsie Francis

What Every Woman Wants

as Polly Ann Hadley

Dance Little Lady

as Mrs. Matthews

Deadly Nightshade

65

as Mrs. Fenton

Hindle Wakes

58

as Mrs Hawthorn

High Treason

62

as Mrs. Ellis

Seven Days to Noon

84

as Mrs. Emily Georgina Peckett

Sunday Night Theatre

51

TV show · as Mrs. Moore /Mrs. Bateman

1940s

16 titles · average score 66

Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora

as Emily Haldane

Marry Me

as Mrs. Pearson

The Guinea Pig

74

as Mrs. Read

This Was a Woman

63

as Miss Johnson

So Well Remembered

69

as Mother (uncredited)

Just William's Luck

as Mrs. Lane

I See a Dark Stranger

75

as Hotel Manageress

The Rake's Progress

67

as Miss Parker

I Live in Grosvenor Square

67

as Minor role (uncredited)

Don't Take It to Heart

64

as Mrs. Pike

Freedom Radio

51

as Katie

Sailors Don't Care

as Woman Carried Ashore (uncredited)

1930s

5 titles · average score 62

I See Ice

as Receptionist

Second Thoughts

as Ellen

Love from a Stranger

60

as Emmy

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

65

as Effie

Widow's Might

as Burroughs