Person · Female
June Whitfield
English radio, television and film actress
- From
- Streatham, United Kingdom
- Active
- 1925–2018
- Releases
- 17
About
Dame June Rosemary Whitfield (11 November 1925 – 29 December 2018) was an English actress.
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Whitfield's big break was a lead in the radio comedy Take It from Here, which aired on the BBC Light Programme in 1953. Television roles soon followed, including appearances with Tony Hancock throughout his television career. In 1966, Whitfield played the leading role in the television sitcom Beggar My Neighbour, which ran for three series. She also appeared in four Carry On films: Carry On Nurse (1959), Carry On Abroad (1972), Carry On Girls (1973) and Carry On Columbus (1992).
In 1968, Whitfield and Terry Scott began a long television partnership, which peaked with roles as husband and wife in Happy Ever After (1974–1979) and Terry and June (1979–1987). From 1992 to 2016, Whitfield played Edina Monsoon's mother in Jennifer Saunders' Absolutely Fabulous. She played a regular character in Last of the Summer Wine (2005–2010) and a recurring character in The Green Green Grass (2007–2009).
From 1993 to 2001, Whitfield played Miss Marple in the radio dramatisation of all twelve of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novels on BBC Radio 4.
Member of
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The “Just a Minute” Team spoken vocals
Discography
Other
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Miss Marple's Final Cases
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George’s Marvellous Medicine
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The Moving Finger
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Sleeping Murder
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They Do It With Mirrors
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The Body in the Library
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A Murder Is Announced
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Nemesis
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The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
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4.50 from Paddington
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A Caribbean Mystery
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Romeo and Juliet
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At Bertram's Hotel
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A Pocket Full of Rye
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Murder at the Vicarage
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Identifiers
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- ISNI
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Data from MusicBrainz, saved 7 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.