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Miss Jane Marple is a fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories. Miss Marple lives in the village of St Mary Mead and acts as an amateur consulting detective. Often characterised as an elderly spinster, [3] [4] she is one of Christie's best-known characters and has been portrayed numerous times on screen.
Miss Marple, titled Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the series, is a British television series based on the Miss Marple murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie, starring Joan Hickson in the title role. It aired from 26 December 1984 to 27 December 1992 on BBC One. All twelve original Miss Marple novels by Christie were dramatised.
Joan Bogle Hickson (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 series Miss Marple. She also narrated a number of Miss Marple stories on audiobooks.
Agatha Christie's Marple is a British ITV television series based on the Miss Marple and other murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie. It is also known as Marple . The title character was played by Geraldine McEwan from the first to third series, until her retirement from the role.
On television, she is known for her BAFTA Award nominated role as Hester Fields in the sitcom Fresh Fields (1984–1986) and its sequel French Fields (1989–1991), as Miss Marple in Agatha Christie's Marple (2009–2013) and for her appearance in the in the BBC One costume drama series Cranford.
In 1956, Fields was the first actress to portray Miss Marple on screen, [24] in a US Television (Goodyear Playhouse) production of Agatha Christie's A Murder is Announced. [25] The production featured Jessica Tandy and Roger Moore, and predates the Margaret Rutherford films by five years.
Meager has appeared in many roles on television and in film, including Lucy Eyelesbarrow in 4:50 from Paddington, one of the BBC's adaptations of Miss Marple novels, in 1987. She played Katherine Chipping in the 1984 BBC adaptation of the book Goodbye, Mr. Chips .
Other plays included her Critics' Choice portrayal of Miss Marple at the Vaudeville and Murder in the Vicarage at the Fortune Theatre in 1979. She appeared in Terence Rattigan's In Praise of Love in South Africa and again during 1974-1975 for performances at the Theatre Royal, Windsor. Another notable appearance was her quietly dignified ...
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