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.
Joan Sims Biography / Wiki
| Name | Joan Sims |
| Also Know | Irene Joan Marion Sims |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Laindon, Essex, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1930-05-09 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 71 |
| Deathday | 2001-06-27 |
Joan Sims Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| What’s a Carry On? | 1998-12-29 | Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the ‘Carry On’ comedy film series. Archive clips and out-takes are mixed with interviews with the ca… | |
| Carry on Christmas | Virginia’s Mother / Senna Pod / Bishop’s Wife / Adelle / 6th Ballerina / Salvation Army Collector / Maid Marion / Traffic Warden. | 1973-12-24 | Sid James as Father Christmas recounts times of the festive season through the ages, from life in stone age times. A country house party in the 18th C… |
| San Ferry Ann | Mum | 1965-07-01 | A motley crew of British characters ride The San Ferry Ann to the shores of France where they embark on a weekend of calamity. The campervan family le… |
| Carry on Christmas (or Carry On Stuffing) | 1972-12-20 | Two unforeseen problems meant that many fans consider this the weakest Christmas special. Firstly, Talbot Rothwell became ill whilst writing the scrip… | |
| Carry On Girls | Connie Philpotts | 1973-11-09 | Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidabl… |
| Carry On Camping | Joan Fussey | 1969-05-29 | Sid and Bernie keep having their amorous intentions snubbed by their girlfriends Joan and Anthea, so when they decide to take them on a holiday to Par… |
| Not Now Darling | Miss Tipdale | 1973-03-01 | A married British furrier gives a mobster’s mistress a cheap mink coat…. |
| The Canterville Ghost | Mrs. Umney | 1996-01-27 | When a teenaged girl moves to England, with her brothers and parents into the ancient Canterville Hall, she’s not at all happy. Especially as there’s … |
| The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | Betty | 2000-08-26 | After Elizabeth’s husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an … |
| Carry on Admiral | Mary | 1957-05-14 | Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the other is the captain of a ship. The former’s lack of… |
| Don’t Just Lie There, Say Something! | Birdie | 1973-10-17 | Based on the hit play. A British Government Minister puts forward a bill to battle filth in the UK but that doesn’t stop him having an affair with bot… |
| Colonel March Investigates | Marjorie Dawson | 1955-08-22 | This is a feature-length compilation of three short episodes taken from a TV series called ‘Colonel March of Scotland Yard’ (1954-56, 26 episodes) sta… |
| Strictly for the Birds | 1964-03-28 | A gambler tries to strike it rich at the racetrack but gets taken by a gorgeous blonde who also happens to be a crook…. | |
| Carry On Matron | Mrs. Tidey | 1972-05-05 | A gang of thieves plan to make their fortune by stealing a shipment of contraceptive pills from Finisham maternity hospital. They assume disguises and… |
| Carry On Loving | Esme Crowfoot | 1970-09-20 | The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of Much-Snoggin-in-the-Green. Its owner, Sidney Bliss, has enough com… |
| Carry On Henry | Queen Marie | 1971-06-03 | Henry VIII has just married Marie of Normandy, and is eager to consummate their marriage. Unfortunately for Henry, she is always eating garlic, and re… |
| Carry On Regardless | Lily Duveen | 1961-04-04 | It’s non stop romps as the Carry On team deliver the goods in one of the rudest and funniest of the Carry On films. The cast are all on top form as a … |
| Carry On Teacher | Sarah Allcock | 1959-08-20 | Prepare for Six of the Best as the Carry On team cause chaos in the school yard. When a well-loved headmaster decides to retire, his scheming pupils h… |
| Carry On Emmannuelle | Mrs. Dangle | 1978-01-01 | The beautiful and sex-starved Emmannuelle Prevert just cannot inflame her husband’s ardour. In frustration she seduces a string of VIPs, including the… |
| The Big Job | Mildred Gamely | 1965-01-01 | A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge fro… |
| Carry On Up the Jungle | Lady Evelyn Bagley | 1970-01-03 | The Carry On team send up the Tarzan tradition in great style. Lady Evelyn Bagley mounts an expedition to find her long-lost baby. Bill Boosey is the … |
| Please Turn Over | Beryl | 1959-12-17 | The orderly suburban life of a 1950’s English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller… |
| Carry On Abroad | Cora Flange | 1972-12-01 | A group of holidaymakers head for the Spanish resort of Elsbels for a 4-day visit. When they get there, they find the Hotel still hasn’t been finished… |
| Carry On at Your Convenience | Chloë Moore | 1971-06-15 | This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs’ Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat; … |
| Watch Your Stern | Ann Foster | 1960-10-14 | When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the ship rally round, when the Admiral needs the plans to sho… |
| Nurse on Wheels | Deborah Walcott | 1963-01-03 | Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes … |
| Davy | Tea Lady | 1958-01-02 | The Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British Music Halls. Young Davy is the star of the act but should he stay with his family … |
| Tender Loving Care | Daisy Potter | 1993-10-03 | Night nurse Elaine Dobbs may be overworked and underpaid, but she has created a very special atmosphere in her ward and is extremely attentive to her … |
| A Christmas Carol | Mrs. Cratchit | 1971-12-21 | Ebenezer Scrooge, a skinflint visited by the spirits of Christmas past, present and future one fateful Christmas Eve. It’s up to them to help the old … |
| Carry On Doctor | Chloë Gibson | 1967-12-02 | Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over matter, slips off the platform in the middle of his … |
| Carry On Cleo | Calpurnia | 1964-11-08 | Two Brits—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of thei… |
| Follow That Camel | Zig-Zig | 1967-08-10 | Bertram Oliphant West (also known as Bo West) wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation. He joins the Foreign Legion, with Simpson his manservant… |
| One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing | Emily | 1975-07-09 | Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious “Lotus X”, Lord Southmere, a Queen’s Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese… |
| Doctor in Clover | Matron Sweet | 1966-03-08 | Doctor in Clover is another ‘Doctor’ movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the hospi… |
| Carry On Again Doctor | Ellen Moore | 1969-12-05 | Dr Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he flie… |
| Love Among the Ruins | Fanny Pratt | 1975-03-06 | An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé. Esteemed ba… |
| The Thief and the Cobbler | Mad Old Holy Witch (voice) | 1993-09-23 | It is written among the limitless constellations of the celestial heavens, and in the depths of the emerald seas, and upon every grain of sand in the… |
| Hay Fever | Clara | 1984-12-04 | Set in a British country house in the 1920s, Hay Fever follows the outlandish bevaiour of the Bliss family when they each invite a guest to spend the … |
| Carry On Cowboy | Belle Armitage | 1965-11-26 | Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a ‘sanitary engineer’ named Marshal P. Knutt is mist… |
| Don’t Lose Your Head | Désirée Dubarry | 1966-12-10 | The time of the French revolution, and Citizen Robespierre is beheading the French aristocracy. When word gets to England, two noblemen, Sir Rodney Ff… |
| Carry On Screaming | Emily Bung | 1966-05-20 | The sinister Dr Watt has an evil scheme going. He’s kidnapping beautiful young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores. Fortuna… |
| Carry On England | Private Jennifer Ffoukes-Sharpe | 1976-10-01 | Captain S. Melly takes over as the new Commanding Officer at an experimental mixed sex air defence base. It’s 1940 and England is under heavy bombardm… |
| Carry On Constable | W.P.C. Gloria Passworthy | 1960-02-22 | With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. With help from Special Constable Gorse, … |
| Carry On Up the Khyber | Lady Joan Ruff-Diamond | 1968-11-28 | Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond looks after the British outpost near the Khybar pass. Protected by the kilted Third Foot and Mouth regiment, you would think t… |
| Carry On Dick | Madame Desirée | 1974-02-01 | Dick Turpin is terrorising the countryside around Upper Dencher. Captain Fancey and Sergeant Jock Strapp plan to put an end to his escapades, and enli… |
| Just My Luck | Phoebe | 1957-11-14 | Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dresser across the road from his workshop. He wants t… |
| Carry On Behind | Daphne Barnes | 1975-06-10 | Professors Vrooshka and Crump decide to visit an archaeological site to study the artifacts there. Lo and behold, it’s right next to a caravan site wh… |
| Meet Mr Lucifer | Fairy Queen | 1953-11-30 | A T.V. set given as a retiremant present is sold on to different households causing misery each time. One of the Ealing comedies…. |
| His and Hers | Hortense | 1961-01-01 | Author-explorer Reggie Blake takes an unorthodox approach to his craft, apparently finding inspiration in the adventures suggested by his agent Charle… |
| One Foot in the Algarve | Lady on Plane | 1993-12-26 | The Meldrews go on holiday to Portugal with Mrs Warboys, who is hoping for romance with her penpal Alfonso. Photographer Martin Trout follows them the… |
| The Alf Garnett Saga | Gran | 1972-08-30 | Alf and his family have been moved from their East End home into a high-rise council estate. Alf is not only having trouble coping with his new ‘home’… |
| The Naked Truth | Ethel Ransom | 1957-12-03 | Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rat… |
| Dry Rot | Beth Barton | 1956-10-31 | Comedy about a trio of not particularly bright bookmakers who try to fix a horse race…. |
| To Dorothy, a Son | Telephone Operator | 1954-10-31 | Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn’t have any male heirs on the way, else he gets… |
| Twice Round the Daffodils | Harriet Halfpenny | 1962-04-02 | Twice Round the Daffodils is a 1962 British comedy drama film directed by Gerald Thomas and starring Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston, Kenn… |
| Hulmerist | Cast – Ouija Board, Ouija Board | 1991-07-01 | Hulmerist is a VHS and DVD release that includes seven promotional films by Morrissey, released initially on VHS, in 1990, and then on DVD in 2004. It… |
| Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet | Queen Katryca | 1986-09-27 | The Doctor is summoned before the High Council of Time Lords to stand trial for the charges of harmful interference to the course of events during his… |
| Doctor in Love | Dawn | 1960-07-12 | Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-c… |
| The Iron Maiden | Nellie Trotter | 1963-06-07 | The film follows Jack Hopkins (played by Michael Craig), an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss (played by Cecil Parker) i… |
| Will Any Gentleman…? | Beryl | 1953-08-25 | A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk’s life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the wo… |
| The Captain’s Table | Maude Pritchett | 1959-01-06 | A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take… |
| Life In Emergency Ward 10 | Mrs. Pryor | 1959-04-01 | Life in Emergency Ward 10 is a 1959 film directed by Robert Day. It stars Michael Craig and Wilfrid Hyde-White. It was based on the television series … |
| Stars in Your Eyes | Walter’s Secretary | 1956-12-06 | A group of feisty, talented young performers pool their resources and buy a dilapidated theatre to showcase their acts – but unscrupulous property d… |
| No, My Darling Daughter | Miss PacPherson, a typist | 1961-08-22 | A British business tycoon is surprised to discover his teenage daughter is being courted by a mysterious young man…. |
| Upstairs and Downstairs | Blodwen | 1959-11-02 | On marrying the boss’s daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law’s advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-… |
| Doctor in Trouble | Russian Captain | 1970-06-16 | Dr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn’t have time to propose to her as she leaves for a cruise to the Mediterranean. Also on board the cruise sh… |
| The Belles of St. Trinian’s | Miss Dawn | 1954-09-28 | The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian’s are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when th… |
| Mr. Topaze | Colette | 1961-04-04 | Mr. Topaze (Peter Sellers) is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses t… |
| The Silken Affair | Lady Barber | 1956-10-02 | An accountant who is creative with his firm’s books uses the money to fund a romantic spree…. |
| The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins | Policewoman (segment “Avarice”) | 1971-11-01 | The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark. Its title is a conflation of The Magnificent Se… |
| Stop Messin’ About!: The Very Best of Kenneth Williams | (Archive footage) | 1996-04-13 | Documentary and celebration of the life and career of British comedian Kenneth Williams…. |
| An Audience With Victoria Wood | Herself | 1988-12-10 | British comedy legend Victoria Wood entertains a star-studded audience including Julie Walters, Judi Dench and Dawn French in this 1988 special. Watch… |
| Carry On Nurse | Student Nurse Stella Dawson | 1959-01-30 | Set in Haven Hospital where a certain men’s ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital put together. The formidable Matron’s debut gives the p… |
| As Long as They’re Happy | Linda | 1955-03-15 | The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Co… |
| No Time for Tears | Sister O’Malley | 1957-10-04 | No Time for Tears is a moving, sympathetic portrayal of the challenges faced by all those who enter this most demanding yet rewarding of professions â… |
| Trouble in Store | Edna | 1953-01-01 | Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn’t he always !!), he wants to be a window dresser ma… |
| A Pair of Briefs | Beryl Hoggins (aka Gale Tornado) | 1962-03-01 | She’s new in chambers, and he’s a troublemaker. But what ‘is’ the true status of the old lady’s wartime marriage, and can the two young legal minds fi… |
| Passport to Shame | Miriam | 1958-12-12 | British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade…. |
| The Sea Shall Not Have Them | Hilda Tebbitt | 1954-06-01 | During autumn of 1944, an RAF Hudson carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fi… |
| The Square Ring | Bunty | 1953-07-13 | Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers…. |
| Deceptions | Mrs. Thirkell | 1985-05-26 | Twin sisters trade places with unexpected results…. |
| Doctor in the House | Rigor Mortis | 1954-03-23 | The first of the seven “Doctor” films, based on Richard Gordon’s novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical … |
| Doctor at Sea | Wendy Thomas | 1955-07-12 | The second of the seven “Doctor” films, based on Richard Gordon’s novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape t… |
| What Every Woman Wants | Dolly Winch | 1954-06-10 | Young couple Mark and Jane are forced to thrash out marital problems in a borrowed room in Jane’s parents’ tiny house. Meanwhile, Jane’s cousin,… |
| Lost | Ice Cream Seller in the Park (Uncredited) | 1956-01-31 | U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London… |
| The Young Lovers | Telephone Operator, American Embassy (uncredited) | 1954-08-24 | A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian diplomat, much to the panic of their respective coun… |
| The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films – British Cinema’s Legendary Studio | Herself – Interviewee | 1985-01-01 | Documentary – After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain’s first and only movie mogul with hi… |
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