

Joan then approaches Jack Douglas, and informs him that she would like him to accompany her across to the promenade. She made her first film appearance in 1934, and the numerous supporting roles of her career included several Carry On films including Sister in Carry On Nurse in a wonderfully comedic moment, her character in Carry On Girls discovers that someone has played a practical joke on her, waving her underwear from a flagpole.

She made her stage debut in 1927, and for several years worked 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. A plaque now marks the house where she lived for 40 years.īorn in Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire, Joan Bogle Hickson was a daughter of shoe manufacturer Alfred Harold Hickson and his wife, the former Edith Mary Bogle. 6 Acting in other Agatha Christie worksįrom 1958, Joan Hickson lived in Rose Lane, Wivenhoe along the River Colne in Essex, until 1998.
