Dame June Rosemary Whitfield, DBE, (11 November 1925 — 29 December 2018), was an English actress on radio, TV and film, best known for starring in Happy Ever After, Terry and June, and Absolutely Fabulous.
She began her career in the 1940s working on stage in the West End. In 1953, she replaced Joy Nichols in Take It from Here, a radio comedy. She also appeared in many supporting roles in television until she got her first starring role as Rose Garvey in Beggar My Neighbour, with Peter Jones (and later Desmond Walter-Ellis) playing her husband.
She then appeared on Scott On... from 1968 to 1974 and started a close working relationship with Terry Scott. She played three of his long-suffering wives, them being Vera Baines in Bless This House in 1972, June Fletcher in Happy Ever After from 1974-79, and June Medford in Terry and June from 1979-87. During this time, she also had a starring role in the 1976 farce Not Now, Comrade as Janet Rimmington.
In 1992, she first appeared in Absolutely Fabulous as Jennifer Saunders' mother and continued to play the role until the end of the series in 2012, and in The Movie in 2016.
She died in her sleep at the age of 93.
Works on TV Tropes she appeared in:
Films
- Carry On Nurse (1959) — Meg
- Carry On Abroad (1972) — Evelyn Blunt
- Carry On Girls (1973) — Councillor Augusta Prodworthy/Voice of Paula Perkins
- Romance with a Double Bass (1974) — Duchess Tatiana
- Carry On Columbus (1992) — Queen Isabella of Spain
- Faeries (1999) — Mrs. Coombs
- Run for Your Wife (2012) — Exercising Woman
- Absolutely Fabulous (2016) — Mother
- Hancock's Half Hour, 3 episodes:
- "The Alpine Holiday" (1957) — Miss Dubois
- "The Blood Donor" (1961) — Nurse
- "The Succession: Son and Heir" (1961) — Veronica Stillwell
- Dixon of Dock Green, episode "The Key of the Nick" (1958) — Marie
- The Army Game, episode "Dodging the Draft" (1958) — Woman
- The Benny Hill Show, 4 episodes (1961-68) — Various Roles
- Steptoe and Son, episode "The Bond That Binds Us" (1964) — Madge
- The Goodies, episode "Wicked Waltzing" (1971) — Penelope Fay
- Bless This House, episode "Entente Not So Cordiale" (1973) — Odette
- Jackanory, 12 episodes (1977-79) — Storyteller
- Terry and June, 65 episodes (1979-87) — June Medford
- It Ain't Half Hot, Mum, episode "Dog in the Manger" (1980) — Captain Georgina Tollemache
- Minder, episode "The Car Lot Baggers" (1984) — Mrs. Murdoch
- The Sooty Show, 2 episodesshow list (1985-86) — Aunty Gertrude
- Cluedo, 6 episodesshow list (1990) — Mrs. Blanche White
- The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends, episode "The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny" (1992) — Mrs. Rabbit
- Absolutely Fabulous, 36 episodes (1992-2012) — Mother
- Noel's House Party, episode "Noel's 100th House Party" (1996) — Monica the Vicar's Wife
- The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge, 2 episodesshow list (1997-98) — Mrs. Apple
- Wyrd Sisters, 6 episodes (1997) — Nanny Ogg
- Get Fit with Brittas, episode "Glad All Over" (1997) — As Herself
- Friends, episode "The One with Ross's Wedding: Part 2" (1998) — Housekeeper
- Rex the Runt, episodes "The Trials of Wendy" (1998) — Judge Pikelet
- Last of the Summer Wine, 44 episodes:
- "Potts in Pole Position" (2001) — Delphi Potts
- 43 episodes (2005-10) — Nelly
- Bob the Builder, 7 episodesshow list (2005-07) — Dot
- Midsomer Murders, 2 episodes:
- "Midsomer Rhapsody" (2005) — Peggy Alder
- "The Flying Club" (2014) — Molly Darnley
- Marple, episode "By the Pricking of My Thumbs" (2006) — Mrs. Lancaster
- The Green Green Grass, 4 episodesshow list (2007-09) — Dora Lane
- Doctor Who, 2-episode story "The End of Time" (2009-10) — Minnie "the Menace" Hooper
- Coronation Street, 3 episodes (2010) — May Penn
- M.I. High, episode "The Gran Master" (2011) — Beryl Bagshot
- Jonathan Creek, episode "The Curse of the Bronze Lamp" (2014) — Heidi Greeley/Laurel Greeley
- Topsy and Tim, 2 episodesshow list (2014) — Mrs. Higley-Pigley
- You, Me and the Apocalypse, episode "Calm Before the Storm - 24 Hours to Go" (2015) — God
- EastEnders, 3 episodes (2016) — Sister Ruth
