Joan Hickson’s Death – Cause and Date

The tv actress Joan Hickson died at the age of 92. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

She became famous from playing Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple in the popular TV series Miss Marple.

She married Eric Norman Butler in 1932. The couple had a daughter and son.

Hickson died in Colchester General Hospital from a stroke, aged 92. She is interred under her married name, Joan Bogle Butler, at Sidbury Cemetery in Devon.

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Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don’t have to retire.

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I love getting back to Wivenhoe. I get out of my wig, bustle and costume in three minutes flat at the end of the play before jumping into a taxi outside the theater and catching the train home.

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I wasn’t beautiful, so there were plenty of character roles. I never did any Shakespeare, I’m far too superficial for that. I just act instinctively.

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I watch these old films in black and white, and suddenly the door opens, and there I am. The other day, I was wearing the most awful hat.

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I have never been a star; I’m just an old character bag.