The BBC's rich drama history includes adaptations of all 12 Christie novels about the character in a series simply titled Miss Marple. Joan Hickson, who first played the role on stage in 1940 ...

Joan Hickson, stage, screen and television actress who became an international celebrity when she played Miss Marple, Agatha Christie’s sharp-witted elderly detective, in a BBC television series ...

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 ...

Miss Marple looks set to return to screens, according to the great-grandson of author Agatha Christie. Search. ... including Joan Hickson in the 1980s BBC TV series, ...

When ITV1 screens the first of a new big-budget Marple series, beginning on Sunday, she has the unenviable task of following both Geraldine McEwan and the late Joan Hickson in the role.

Miss Marple is a fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories. ... Feature-length episode of the much-loved murder mystery, with the wonderful Joan Hickson. Miss Marple is ...

LONDON — Geraldine McEwan knows that Miss Marple’s sensible shoes and cardigans have been filled by such redoubtable actresses as Margaret Rutherford, Angela Lansbury and Joan Hickson. But she ...

Alan Carr is on the trail of one of Agatha Christie's best-loved characters: Miss Marple. ... -You know what the last words Joan Hickson said as Miss Marple?-No.-"More tea, Vicar?" ...

Joan Hickson as Miss Marple, whom she played from 1984 to 1992. (BBC/Everett Collection) Perspective by Rhys Bowen. I’ve often wondered what it is about Agatha Christie that has made her books ...

Joan Hickson as Miss Marple in the BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie’s A Caribbean Mystery in 1989 Photo by Bill Rowntree / Mirrorpix / Getty Images. In 1927, with the publication of her short ...