Joan Sims
Birthday: 1930-05-09
Place of Birth: Laindon, Essex, England, UK
Biography: Irene Joan Marion Sims was an English actress remembered for her roles in the Carry On films, including Carry On Nurse, Carry On Cleo, and Carry On Camping. She played Mrs Wembley, the cook with a liking for sherry in On the Up, and Madge Hardcastle in As Time Goes By.
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Carry On Screaming!
The sinister Dr. Watt has an evil scheme going—he's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning the...
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Don't Lose Your Head
Amidst the French revolution, Citizen Robespierre is beheading the aristocracy! When word gets to En...
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Carry On Doctor
Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over ma...
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Carry On Cowboy
Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a ...
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Carry On Cleo
Two Britons—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved b...
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Carry On Constable
With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police...
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Carry On England
Captain S. Melly takes over as the new Commanding Officer at an experimental mixed sex air defence b...
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Carry On Up the Khyber
Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond looks after the British outpost near the Khybar pass. Protected by the kilte...
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Follow That Camel
Bertram Oliphant 'Bo' West wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation, so he joins the Foreign L...
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Carry On Henry
Henry VIII has just married Marie of Normandy, and is eager to consummate their marriage. Unfortunat...
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Carry On Loving
The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of Much-Snoggin-in-...
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Carry On Matron
A gang of thieves plan to make their fortune by stealing a shipment of contraceptive pills from Fini...
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Carry On Teacher
When a well-loved headmaster decides to retire, his scheming pupils have other ideas. The cunning bo...
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Carry On Regardless
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series o...
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Carry On Dick
Dick Turpin is terrorising the countryside around Upper Dencher. Captain Fancey and Sergeant Jock St...
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Carry On Girls
Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seasi...
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The Thief and the Cobbler
Princess Yum Yum falls in love with Tack and saves him from being executed. Later, when the protecti...
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A Christmas Carol
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e...
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Carry On Emmannuelle
The beautiful and sex-starved Emmannuelle Prevert just cannot inflame her husband's ardour. In frust...
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One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a ...
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Just My Luck
Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dre...
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The Big Job
A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught a...
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Carry On Up the Jungle
The Carry On team send up the Tarzan tradition in great style. Lady Evelyn Bagley mounts an expediti...
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Doctor in the House
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 an...
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Doctor in Love
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping...
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Doctor in Clover
Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the ...
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Doctor at Sea
The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 a...
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That's Carry On!
Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Will...
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Please Turn Over
The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter ...
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Carry On Abroad
A group of holidaymakers head for the Spanish resort of Elsbels for a 4-day visit. When they get the...
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Carry On Again Doctor
Dr. Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion b...
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Carry On at Your Convenience
At WC Boggs' Lavatory factory, Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the dro...
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Carry On Behind
Professors Vooshka and Crump decide to visit an archaeological site to study the artifacts there. Lo...
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Carry On Camping
Sid and Bernie keep having their amorous intentions snubbed by their girlfriends Joan and Anthea, so...
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The Alf Garnett Saga
Alf and his family have been moved from their East End home into a high-rise council estate. Alf is ...
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Stop Messin' About!: The Very Best of Kenneth Williams
Documentary and celebration of the life and career of British comedian Kenneth Williams....
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Watch Your Stern
When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the ship ra...
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The Iron Maiden
The film follows Jack Hopkins, an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss is...
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Carry on Christmas
Sid James as Father Christmas recounts times of the festive season through the ages, from life in st...
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An Audience With Victoria Wood
British comedy legend Victoria Wood entertains a star-studded audience including Julie Walters, Judi...
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Nurse on Wheels
Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up he...
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Meet Mr. Lucifer
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time....
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Davy
The Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British Music Halls. Young Davy is the s...
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San Ferry Ann
A motley crew of British characters ride The San Ferry Ann to the shores of France where they embark...
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Not Now Darling
A married British furrier gives a mobster's mistress a cheap mink coat....
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Will Any Gentleman...?
A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without ...
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No, My Darling Daughter
A British business tycoon is surprised to discover his teenage daughter is being courted by a myster...
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What's a Carry On?
Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips a...
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Carry On Nurse
In Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital altogether. Th...
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The Naked Truth
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the per...
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His and Hers
Author-explorer Reggie Blake takes an unorthodox approach to his craft, apparently finding inspirati...
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The Captain's Table
A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although...
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The Canterville Ghost
When a teenaged girl moves to England, with her brothers and parents into the ancient Canterville Ha...
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Carry On Christmas (or Carry On Stuffing)
Two unforeseen problems meant that many fans consider this the weakest Christmas special. Firstly, T...
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The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she...
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As Long as They're Happy
The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife S...
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Love Among the Ruins
An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott has ended her engagement with a younger man and is...
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Carry On Admiral
Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the oth...
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The Cobblers of Umbridge
A parody of the long running radio show "The Archers", an everyday story of country-folk based in th...
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The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Documentary - After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to b...
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Life In Emergency Ward 10
Life in Emergency Ward 10 is a 1959 film directed by Robert Day. It stars Michael Craig and Wilfrid ...
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No Time for Tears
The interwoven dramas of staff and patients in Mayfield Children's Hospital, where the doctors and n...
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Tender Loving Care
Night nurse Elaine Dobbs may be overworked and underpaid, but she has created a very special atmosph...
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The Fool
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper ...
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The Sea Shall Not Have Them
During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret infor...
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The Square Ring
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers....
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Lost
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their ...
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Upstairs and Downstairs
On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic...
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Dry Rot
Comedy about a trio of not particularly bright bookmakers who try to fix a horse race....
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Doctor in Trouble
Dr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a cruise...
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The Young Lovers
A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian di...
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The Belles of St. Trinian's
The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hoc...
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To Dorothy, a Son
Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband do...
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Twice Round the Daffodils
Twice Round the Daffodils is a 1962 British comedy drama film directed by Gerald Thomas and starring...
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Hay Fever
Set in a British country house in the 1920s, Hay Fever follows the outlandish bevaiour of the Bliss ...
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Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!
Based on the hit play. A British Government Minister puts forward a bill to battle filth in the UK b...
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Mr. Topaze
Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fa...
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Morrissey - Hulmerist
Seven promotional films by Morrissey, released initially on VHS in 1990 and then on DVD in 2004. It ...
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The Silken Affair
An accountant who is creative with his firm's books uses the money to fund a romantic spree....
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The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
A septet of satirical vignettes based on the Seven Deadly Sins....
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One Foot in the Algarve
The Meldrews go on holiday to Portugal with Mrs Warboys, who is hoping for romance with her penpal A...
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Colonel March Investigates
This is a feature-length compilation of three short episodes taken from a TV series called 'Colonel ...
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Trouble in Store
Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't...
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What Every Woman Wants
Young couple Mark and Jane are forced to thrash out marital problems in a borrowed room in Jane’s pa...
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Passport to Shame
British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade....
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A Pair of Briefs
She's new in chambers, and he's a troublemaker. But what 'is' the true status of the old lady's wart...
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Deceptions
Twin sisters -- one a European jet-setter, the other an unhappy New Jersey housewife -- impulsively ...
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Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet
The Doctor is summoned before the High Council of Time Lords to stand trial for the charges of harmf...
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Stars in Your Eyes
A group of feisty, talented young performers pool their resources and buy a dilapidated theatre to s...
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Strictly for the Birds
A gambler tries to strike it rich at the racetrack but gets taken by a gorgeous blonde who also happ...
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Alice Through the Looking Box
A Christmas TV special in which Alice does not go through a looking glass, but through a TV set....
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The Odd Job
A man is heartbroken after his wife walks out on him. Reasoning that he has nothing to live for, he ...
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Iolanthe
Half-fae-half-mortal shepherd Strephon wants to wed shepherdress Phyllis, but, although she reciproc...
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On Location: The Carry Ons
June Whitfield takes a look at some of the locations used during the making of the legendary 'Carry ...
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