Movies starring Joan Hickson

Biography: 
Joan Hickson was born in 1906 at Kingsthorpe, Northampton. Her stage career began with provincial theater in 1927, going on to a long series of West End comedies, usually playing the part of a confused or eccentric middle-age woman. She performed at the Regent's Park Open Air Theater at the time London was subject to World War II bombing. Her work gradually included screen roles: "The Guinea Pig ( ...  show all 

The 39 Steps (1959)

Friday, November 13th, 2009
The 39 Steps
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Kenneth More | Taina Elg | Brenda De Banzie | Barry Jones | Reginald Beckwith | Faith Brook | Michael Goodliffe | James Hayter | Duncan Lamont | Jameson Clark | Andrew Cruickshank | Leslie Dwyer | Betty Henderson | Joan Hickson | Sid James
Directors: Ralph Thomas
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A remake of Alfred Hitchcock's film of the same name. A man meets a woman and goes home with her, only to find her murdered. When he finds out that she was a secret agent and that he's now mixed up in the matter, he must try to solve the mystery.

They Do It with Mirrors (1991)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
They Do It with Mirrors
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Joan Hickson | Jean Simmons | Joss Ackland | Faith Brook | Gillian Barge | Neal Swettenham | David Horovitch | Ian Brimble | Christopher Villiers | Jay Villiers | Holly Aird | Todd Boyce | Saul Reichlin | Matthew Cottle | John Bott
Directors: Norman Stone
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Young lady Marple is invited for London to see his friendly old man Ruth. Young lady Marple was a sort of fellow traveler to Ruth and his sister, Carrie Louise. Ruth is bothered on Carrie Louise. She does not know why, though. Ruth asks Young lady Marple to come with her to the property of his sister, Stonygates. The Stonygates is an enormous house of mansion, and some buildings and the lands are used by the current husband of Carrie Louise, Lewis, like a reformatory of youthful criminals. Young lady Marple finds the people who survives there - the granddaughter Gina de Carrie Louise and his American discontented husband Walter; Stephen and Alex Restarick, stepsons of Carrie Louise during his first marriage; Edgar Lawson, mentally unstable secretary of Lewis; and the daughter of Carrie Louise, Mildred, who is jealous of Gina. Soon, the stepson of Carrie Louise during his second marriage is outstanding. He is Christian Guldbrandsen, and he directs the confidence that contributes to a fraction of the bottoms used to direct Stonygates. He and Lewis speak in deprived. Then on that night, Edgar begins to flutter a weapon in turn and recite that Lewis is his father. Lewis takes it to his office where the argument is even more heated. After some minutes, two shots are heard, and I shout soon hysterically. The door opens to reveal Lewis, unhurt. He lacked Edgar. Nevertheless, the body of the Christian Guldbrandsen is discovered, shot. Young lady Marple intends to find the murderer before it belongs too late to his good friend Carrie Louise. Senhorita Marple é convidada para Londres para ver o seu velho amigo Ruth. Senhorita Marple foi uma espécie de companheiro de viagem a Ruth e sua irmã, Carrie Louise. Ruth é importunado sobre Carrie Louise. Ela não sabe por que, embora. Ruth pede Senhorita Marple vir com ela à propriedade de sua irmã, Stonygates. O Stonygates é uma enorme casa de solar, e alguns edifícios e as terras são usados pelo marido atual de Carrie Louise, Lewis, como um reformatório de criminosos juvenis. Senhorita Marple encontra a gente que vive lá - a neta Gina de Carrie Louise e seu marido americano descontente Walter; Stephen e Alex Restarick, enteados de Carrie Louise pelo seu primeiro matrimônio; Edgar Lawson, secretário mentalmente movediço de Lewis; e a filha de Carrie Louise, Mildred, que é ciumento de Gina. Logo, o enteado de Carrie Louise pelo seu segundo matrimônio destaca-se. Ele é cristão Guldbrandsen, e ele dirige a confiança que contribui para uma fração dos fundos usados para dirigir Stonygates. Ele e Lewis falam em privado. Depois naquela noite, Edgar começa a tremular uma arma em volta e declamar que Lewis é o seu pai. Lewis toma-o ao seu escritório onde o argumento fica até mais aquecido. Depois de alguns minutos, dois tiros são ouvidos, e grito logo histérico. A porta abre-se para revelar Lewis, ileso. Edgar faltou a ele. Contudo, o corpo do cristão Guldbrandsen é descoberto, disparado. Senhorita Marple pretende encontrar o assassino antes é tarde demais do seu bom amigo Carrie Louise.

Caribbean Mystery, A (1989)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Caribbean Mystery, A
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Joan Hickson | Donald Pleasence | Adrian Lukis | Sophie Ward | T.P. McKenna | Michael Feast | Sheila Ruskin | Frank Middlemass | Robert Swan | Sue Lloyd | Barbara Barnes | Stephen Bent | Joseph Mydell | Valerie Buchanan | Isabelle Lucas
Directors: Christopher Petit
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Although Miss Marple only wants to gild in the sun calmly in a West Indian appeal, she is tormented with annoying reminiscence by a too voluble ex-soldier and a policeman, Palgrave Important. Although he pretends to have a painting of a murderer, Miss Marple is more interested in his tricot gifted with ubiquity than her verbose stories. After the Commander harshly drinking dies this night of a visible heart attack, the good says to her that the treatment of tension found in its room belongs to another guest. When she learns later that compromising painting misses and the good is found stabs in death, Miss Marple predicts correctly that more murders will follow. Bien que Mlle Marple veuille seulement se dorer au soleil calmement à un recours indien Ouest, elle est tourmentée avec les réminiscences ennuyeuses par un ex-soldat trop loquace et un agent de police, Palgrave Important. Bien qu'il prétende posséder une peinture d'un meurtrier, Mlle Marple s'intéresse plus à son tricot doué d'ubiquité que ses histoires verbeuses. Après que le Commandant durement buvant meurt cette nuit d'une crise cardiaque apparente, la bonne lui dit que la médication de tension trouvée dans sa pièce appartient à un autre invité. Quand elle apprend plus tard que la peinture compromettante manque et la bonne est trouvée a poignardé à mort, Mlle Marple prédit correctement que plus de meurtres suivront.

4.50 from Paddington (1987)

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
4.50 from Paddington
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Joan Hickson | Juliette Mole | David Beames | Mona Bruce | Nicholas Blane | Katy Jarrett | Leslie Adams | David Horovitch | Ian Brimble | Rhoda Lewis | Jill Meager | Joanna David | Maurice Denham | Andrew Burt | Pamela Pitchford
Directors: Martyn Friend
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Elspeth McGillicuddy, an old friend of Miss Marple, is witness of a murder of strangulation in a temporary train by the window of his coach's compartment. When the Inspecteur de La Peu consciencieux police cannot find a body along footprints and doubt of the validity of history, Miss Marple and Elspeth find the region where the body was probably thrown of the train, the manor isolated from an old, a sour millionaire, Luther Crackenthorpe. The niece Lucy de Miss Marple is recruited to ask for a job on the state in the hopes of finding the body. When it thinks it in an ancient sarcophagus in an Egyptian of house of dependency and treasures is étrusques of art, the police and Miss Marple is made intercede. Of course somebody in the big home is involved, but who?. Elspeth McGillicuddy, un vieil ami de Mlle Marple, est témoin d'un meurtre de strangulation dans un train passager par la fenêtre de son compartiment d'entraîneur. Quand l'Inspecteur de La police Peu consciencieux ne peut pas trouver un corps le long des empreintes et doute de la validité de l'histoire, Mlle Marple et Elspeth trouvent la région où le corps a été probablement lancé du train, le manoir isolé d'un âgé, un millionnaire revêche, Luther Crackenthorpe. La nièce Lucy de Mlle Marple est recrutée pour demander un emploi sur l'état dans les espoirs de trouver le corps. Quand elle le trouve dans un sarcophage ancien dans un égyptien d'habitation de dépendance et des trésors étrusques d'art, la police et Mlle Marple sont faits intervenir. Évidemment quelqu'un dans la grande maison est impliqué, mais qui ?.

Sleeping Murder (1987)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Sleeping Murder
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Joan Hickson | Geraldine Alexander | John Moulder-Brown | Frederick Treves | Jean Anderson | Terrence Hardiman | John Bennett | Geraldine Newman | Jack Watson | Joan Scott | Jean Heywood | Georgine Anderson | Edward Jewesbury | David McAllister | Amanda Boxer
Directors: John Davies
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Television adaptation of BBC of the Roman von Agatha Christie. A young recently married woman, Gwenda Reed, comes back to England after the life of the biggest part of her life in New Zealand. While her husband, Giles, except the land is, she buys a house for them and starts recalling recollections which do her beginning to think that maybe she had lived in the house before. This is only, while it dines with friends that a chance remark of a horrific memory released as a small girl, in a body of a woman and the murderer with *quot; monkeys Tatzen*quot; to hands looking down. Gwenda is intended to find out the springs of this memory. The murderer, thought that he / she was sure after eighteen years and is ready to kill to cover the past. But Gwenda has help because one of her dish friends Raymond West is who has a quite special aunt who is ready to help Gwenda - Miss Jane Marple. Fernsehanpassung von BBC des Romans von Agatha Christie. Eine junge kürzlich verheiratete Frau, Gwenda Reed, kommt nach England nach dem Leben des grössten Teiles ihres Lebens in Neuseeland zurück. Während ihr Mann, Giles, außer dem Land ist, kauft sie ein Haus für sie und fängt an, Erinnerungen zurückzurufen, die ihren Anfang machen, um zu denken, dass vielleicht sie im Haus vorher gelebt hatte. Das ist nur dann, indem es mit Freunden speist, dass eine Zufallsbemerkung von einem furchterregenden Gedächtnis als ein kleines Mädchen auslöste, an einem Körper einer Frau und dem Mörder mit "Affen Tatzen" Händen herabsehend. Gwenda wird bestimmt, die Quellen dieses Gedächtnisses herauszufinden. Der Mörder, dachte, dass er/sie nach achtzehn Jahren sicher war und bereit ist zu töten, um die Vergangenheit zuzudecken. Aber Gwenda hat Hilfe, weil einer ihrer Speisenfreunde Raymond West ist, der eine ganz besondere Tante hat, die bereit ist, Gwenda - Fräulein Jane Marple zu helfen.

At Bertram's Hotel (1987)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
At Bertram's Hotel
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Joan Hickson | Caroline Blakiston | Helena Michell | James Cossins | Joan Greenwood | George Baker | Douglas Milvain | Philip Bretherton | Preston Lockwood | Irene Sutcliffe | Brian McGrath | Neville Phillips | Robert Reynolds | Peter Baldwin | Randal Herley
Directors: Mary McMurray
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Miss Jane Marple stays in a smart hotel of her compliments of childhood of his nephew Raymond. Also there is the international venturer Bess Sedgwick and lady Selena Vague (Joan Greenwood in her next to the last performance). A concierge working on the hotel turns out to be the past of Bess and when he is killed, she is the primordial suspect. But what does its murder concern the disappearing of a remaining rather old chaplain in the hotel and in a twine of thefts during some last months? Miss Marple must teach before strikes of murderer once again!!!. Mlle Jane Marple reste à un hôtel élégant de ses compliments d'enfance de son neveu Raymond. Aussi il y a l'aventurier international Bess Sedgwick et Lady Selena Vague (Joan Greenwood dans elle à côté de la dernière performance). Un portier travaillant sur l'hôtel se révèle être du passé de Bess et quand il est tué, elle est le suspect primordial. Mais que son meurtre concerne-t-il la disparition d'un vicaire assez âgé restant à l'hôtel et à une ficelle de vols pendant quelques mois derniers ? Mlle Marple doit apprendre avant les grèves de meurtrier de nouveau!!!.

Pocket Full of Rye, A (1985)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Pocket Full of Rye, A
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Joan Hickson | Timothy West | Fabia Drake | Clive Merrison | Rachel Bell | Peter Davison | Frances Low | Stacy Dorning | Martyn Stanbridge | Tom Wilkinson | Jon Glover | Selina Cadell | Annette Badland | Merelina Kendall | Frank Mills
Directors: Guy Slater
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The commercial rich man Rex Fortescue suffers a collapse when he reaches his office. It is determined that it was poisoned. Nobody looks like also the disorder, when each one agrees that Rex was a tyrant. Soon nevertheless the young wife of Rex also turns out to be poisoned. The servant, Gladyes, that miss Marple trained, writes to miss Marple that he asks for help. Miss Marple comes too much late, when the body of Gladyses is found strangulated and threaded in the rope to tend. Now this is the personnel, and miss Marple is determined to see that the killer punished. El hombre comercial rico Rex Fortescue sufre un colapso cuando él alcanza su oficina. Es determinado que él fue envenenado. Nadie parece también el trastorno, cuando cada uno está de acuerdo que Rex era un tirano. Pronto sin embargo la esposa joven de Rex también aparece envenenado. La criada, Gladyes, que señorita Marple entrenó, escribe a señorita Marple que pide ayuda. Señorita Marple llega demasiado tarde, cuando el cuerpo de Gladyses es encontrado estrangulado y ensartado en la cuerda para tender. Ahora esto es el personal, y señorita Marple es determinada para ver que el asesino castigó.

Murder Is Announced, A (1985)

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Murder Is Announced, A
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Joan Hickson | Ursula Howells | Renée Asherson | Samantha Bond | Simon Shepherd | Nicola King | Elaine Ives-Cameron | Ralph Michael | Sylvia Syms | Matthew Solon | Mary Kerridge | Joan Sims | Paola Dionisotti | Vivienne Moore | David Collings
Directors: David Giles
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A murder is announced in the shred Cleghorne newspaper to take place on the 5th October 19 o'clock in little paddock cottage. The people who live there, the retired secretary Miss Blacklock, her companion Miss Bunner, two distant cousins on Miss Blacklock, Patrick and Julia and the woman. Haymes, a gardener, have no idea about which the announcement is. Several villagers reach the house under the wrong pretexts *quot; just of the walking durch*quot;, or *quot; was in the Nachbarschaft*quot;. In exactly 19 o'clock the lights go out, and a man comes into the room, and polishes a beacon in everybody's face. Then shots are heard. Because the lights come back to it, they find the man who went, the room has been shot. Miss Marple must unmask the murderer, but more murders soon appear. Ein Mord wird im Schnitzel Cleghorne Zeitung bekannt gegeben, um am 5. Oktober 19 Uhr an Wenig Paddock-Cottage stattzufinden. Die Leute, die dort, der pensionierte Sekretär Fräulein Blacklock, ihr Begleiter Fräulein Bunner, die zwei entfernten Vetter von Fräulein Blacklock, Patrick und Julia und die Frau leben. Haymes, ein Gärtner, haben keine Idee, worüber die Anzeige ist. Mehrere Dorfbewohner erreichen das Haus unter den falschen Vorwänden "gerade des Wanderns durch", oder "War in der Nachbarschaft". An genau 19 Uhr gehen die Lichter aus, und ein Mann geht ins Zimmer ein, und poliert ein Leuchtfeuer in jedermanns Gesicht. Dann werden Schüsse gehört. Weil die Lichter darauf zurückkommen, finden sie den Mann, der hereinging, ist das Zimmer geschossen worden. Fräulein Marple muss den Mörder demaskieren, aber bald tauchen mehr Morde auf.

The Moving Finger (1985)

Friday, April 25th, 2008
Moving Finger, The
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Joan Hickson | Michael Culver | Elizabeth Counsell | Deborah Appleby | Lucy Gleeson | Stuart Mansfield | Andrew Bicknell | Sabina Franklyn | Richard Pearson | Hilary Mason | Dilys Hamlett | John Arnatt | Sandra Payne | Martin Fisk | Penelope Lee
Directors: Roy Boulting
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They send to the cavalry major Gerry Burton to a village of quiet country to recover of effects of a plane crash and be cured by his nice sister Joanna. As they is unknown in the community, they are shocked to accept an unknown man, to a letter of fountain pen of poison sexually definite. They note later that of other gentry of the village was persecuted by the same author of fanatic and the wife of the sent chaplain her Miss of friend Marple in the hopes of displaying the author. When the wife of a notary takes some poison obviously after fact to accept a particularly evil message, Miss Marple thinks that letters are a smokescreen for something more menacing. When a good of home is found clubs in death, she knows that she is right. On envoie au Chef d'escadron Gerry Burton à un village de pays tranquille pour se rétablir des effets d'un accident d'avion et être guéri par sa belle soeur Joanna. Comme ils sont inconnues à la communauté, ils sont choqués de recevoir un anonyme, une lettre de stylo de poison sexuellement explicite. Ils constatent plus tard que d'autre petite noblesse du village a été persécutée par le même auteur de fanatique et la femme du vicaire fait venir sa Mlle d'ami Marple dans les espoirs d'exposer l'auteur. Quand la femme d'un notaire prend apparemment du poison après le fait de recevoir un message particulièrement malfaisant, Mlle Marple pense que les lettres sont un écran de fumée pour quelque chose de plus menaçant. Quand une bonne de maison est trouvée a matraqué à mort, elle sait qu'elle a raison.

Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974)

Friday, March 28th, 2008
Confessions of a Window Cleaner
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Robin Askwith | Anthony Booth | Sheila White | Dandy Nichols | Bill Maynard | Linda Hayden | John Le Mesurier | Joan Hickson | Katya Wyeth | Richard Wattis | Melissa Stribling | Anita Graham | Sam Kydd | Brian Hall | Christine Donna
Directors: Val Guest
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Young Timmy begins as an apparatus of cleaning of window in the small company of his brother. Soon he learns that certain female customers expect additional service. Young and curious as it is, he accepts in contrec and * 339; ur juicy duty. However the heart belongs to Liz, who asks for the highest commitment until she allows him to go entirely. Young Timmy commence comme un appareil de nettoyage de fenêtre dans la petite compagnie de son frère. Bientôt il apprend que certains clients femelles s'attendent au service supplémentaire. Jeune et curieux comme il est, il accepte à contrecœur le devoir juteux. Pourtant son coeur appartient à Liz, qui demande le plus haut engagement jusqu'à ce qu'elle lui permette d'aller entièrement.
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