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Birthday:

02-16-1927

Deathday:

04-03-2022 (95 years)

Birthplace:

Needham Market, Suffolk, England, UK

Biography

June Muriel Brown OBE (16 February 1927 – 3 April 2022) was an English actress and author. She was best known for her role as Dot Cotton on the BBC soap opera EastEnders (1985–1993; 1997–2020). In 2005, she won Best Actress at the Inside Soap Awards and received the Lifetime Achievement award at the British Soap Awards. Brown was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours for services to drama and to charity, and promoted OBE in the 2022 New Year Honours. In 2009, she was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress, making her the second performer to receive a BAFTA nomination for their work in a soap opera, after Jean Alexander. In February 2020 she announced that she had left EastEnders permanently, at the age of 93.

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Bean

Act like Delilah

event1997 star_border 6.5 top_panel_open

Childlike Englishman, Mr. Bean, is an incompetent watchman at the Royal National Gallery. After the museum's board of directors' attempt to have him fired is blocked by the chairman, who has taken a liking to Bean, they send him to Los Angeles to act as their ambassador for the unveiling of a historic painting to humiliate him. Fooled, Mr. Bean must now successfully unveil the painting or risk his and a hapless Los Angeles curator's termination.

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Act like Woman Patient

event1971 star_border 6.6 top_panel_open

Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.

Inadmissible Evidence

Act like Watson's Guest

event1968 star_border 6 top_panel_open

A lawyer's agonizing journey to the breaking point of his private and professional lives as he becomes more and more alienated from everyone connected with him.

It Started in Paradise

Act like Announcer

event1952 star_border 5 top_panel_open

A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion world then loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down.

A Christmas Carol

Act like Mrs. Dilber

event1977 star_border 6.6 top_panel_open

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Toby the Square Boy

Act like (voice)

event1999 top_panel_open

He's wooden, he's square, and he just doesn't fit in. What's more Toby the Square Boy seems to have trouble remembering where he lives, what would you do if he knocked at your front door and called you 'Daddy'? Should life for a seven year old boy really be this difficult?

Way Off Beat

Act like Mrs. Wentworth

event1966 top_panel_open

Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club.

Misunderstood

Act like Mrs. Paley

event1984 star_border 6.7 top_panel_open

A workaholic father becomes sole parent to his two young sons, and finds it hard to relate to them, consumed as he is with his own grief.

The Children's Party at the Palace

Act like Aunt Spiker (James and the Giant Peach)

event2006 star_border 2 top_panel_open

To celebrate her 80th birthday, the Queen is holding a children's party in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. She has invited many classic characters from British children's literature. But when the baddies, led by Cruella de Vil, discover that they have not been invited, they steal the Queen's handbag containing her spectacles and the text of her speech; without it, the Queen will not be able to make a speech at the party. Can the goodies find the handbag in time?

Murder by Decree

Act like Anne Chapman

event1979 star_border 6.4 top_panel_open

Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper, who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned psychic, Robert Lees, Holmes finds that the murders may have their roots in a Royal indiscretion and that a cover-up is being managed by politicians at the highest level, all of whom happen to be Masons.

Bed

Act like Spinster

event1995 top_panel_open

Surreal drama about seven old people living in the same bed, by Jim Cartwright.

The Shining Pyramid

Act like Mrs. Joy

event1979 top_panel_open

When stones begin miraculously arranging themselves on the edge of one young man's private land, he and his friend begin trying to decipher them in any way possible. When they realize that it might be a dark portent, they become desperate to achieve their goal before it is too late.

Straw Dogs

Act like Mrs. Hebden (uncredited)

event1971 star_border 7.2 top_panel_open

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexual assault awakes a shockingly violent side of David.

Hospital!

Act like Cleaner

event1997 star_border 5 top_panel_open

Comedy about a brilliant young brain surgeon set in an unorthodox hospital. A "Naked Gun" type comedy from Britain, this one-off special was made specifically for the launch of Channel 5 in 1997.

Brenda

Act like Alice Penny

event1973 top_panel_open

Brenda is 20 and has moved back to her parents' house in an attempt for some stability in her life.

A Touch of the Victorians

Act like Ruth Preston

event1972 top_panel_open

An Amateur Drama Troupe putting on a show at an old people's home, start to improvise the script with their own personal problems.

The Lady's Maid's Bell

Act like Emma Saxon

event1983 top_panel_open

Based on a short story by Edith Wharton. A lady's maid named Hartley finds employment with Mrs. Brympton, a lady who is confined to her country estate because of delicate health. Almost immediately Ms. Hartley realizes something ominous is occurring in the old house.

The Lock-In

Act like Dot Cotton

event2024 top_panel_open

The Lock-In never ends. Consisting entirely of pub footage from the British soap opera EastEnders, it is endless inasmuch as its source is endless and its makers living. This durational screening of 7.5 hours will cover the entirety of the year 1999 as experienced in EastEnders’ Queen Vic pub (emerging – or falling – into the millennium).

Spidarlings

Act like June

event2016 star_border 6 top_panel_open

Poverty stricken lovers Eden and Matilda have enough trouble just getting through the days, but when Eden buys a pet spider the real troubles start.

Psychomania

Act like Mrs. Pettibone

event1973 star_border 5.6 top_panel_open

A gang of young people call themselves the Living Dead. They terrorize the population from their small town. After an agreement with the devil, if they kill themselves firmly believing in it, they will survive and gain eternal life. Following their leader, they commit suicide one after the other, but things don't necessarily turn out as expected...

Edna: The Inebriate Woman

Act like Clara, in Psychiatric Hospital

event1971 top_panel_open

A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the deterioration of Edna, a homeless alcoholic and was made at a time when vagrancy was still a criminal offence.

June Brown at 90: A Walford Legend

Act like Self

event2017 star_border 3.5 top_panel_open

Beloved BBC soap actress June Brown chats about her life and 67 year career.

Margery and Gladys

Act like Gladys Gladwell

event2003 star_border 7.4 top_panel_open

When wealthy, recently-widowed suburban housewife, Margery (PENELOPE KEITH), and her ‘rough diamond’ of a cleaner, Gladys (JUNE BROWN), disturb a house burglar, they knock him unconscious, panic and leave him for dead, fleeing in the cleaner’s wrecked old car. What follows is a comedy of misunderstandings in which these two very different, mature ladies are led on an unfortunate series of incidents which snowballs into a crime spree. They prove to be more than a match for the unlikely pair of policemen, DI Woolley (Roger Lloyd Pack) and DS Stringer (Martin Freeman), who are left to solve the ladies disappearance and puzzling string of crimes which follow. As the police net tightens around them, the two very different, mature ladies are propelled on a shared voyage of self-discovery as skeletons fall from the closets forcing both women to reflect on their past lives.

South Riding

Act like Lily Sawdon

event1974 top_panel_open

An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

Act like Self

event2000 star_border 6.5 top_panel_open

The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.

The 14

Act like The Mother

event1973 star_border 5.8 top_panel_open

Set in London’s East End, The 14 (aka The Wild Little Bunch aka Existence) is based on the true story of fourteen children who struggle against overwhelming pressures to stay together after the death of their single mother.

Sorry

Act like June

event1981 top_panel_open

Play by Carol Bunyan. Two very different ladies share an office, a common enemy and a sense of humour. Sorry follows them through a day and their very different, and in one case, traumatic, lunch hour.

Horatio Bottomley

Act like Eliza Bottomley

event1972 top_panel_open

Alan Clarke's standalone film first appeared as an episode of the BBC series "The Edwardians" and concerns notorious bon vivant, swindler, MP, public speaker, founder of the Financial Times and publisher of John Bull magazine, Horatio Bottomley.

EastEnders: Dot's Story

Act like Dot Cotton

event2003 star_border 10 top_panel_open

Dot travels to Wales to visit the now very ill woman who she stayed with during World War II.

Instant Enlightenment Including VAT

Act like Melanie

event1979 star_border 4.5 top_panel_open

BBC Play for Today. Maximillian Schreiber runs a series of gruelling motivational courses - all coming at a cost to the participants - including VAT.

Sitting Target

Act like Lomart's Neighbour

event1972 star_border 6.1 top_panel_open

Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term as he is confident that on his release his beautiful wife Pat will be waiting for him, but a visit from Pat brings him his worst nightmare.

Ethel & Ernest

Act like Ernest's Step Mother (voice)

event2016 star_border 7.4 top_panel_open

This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events.

Wendy Richard: A Life on the Box

event2001 top_panel_open

Profile of actress Wendy Richard's remarkable television career, featuring classic clips and contributions from colleagues.

Doctor Who: The Time Warrior

Act like Lady Eleanor

event1974 star_border 7.2 top_panel_open

When scientists start to go missing in the 20th century, the Doctor is called in by the Brigadier to investigate. His investigations lead him to deduce that they are being kidnapped through time and he sets off in pursuit, unknowingly kidnapping journalist Sarah Jane Smith in the process. Arriving in the middle ages, the Doctor and Sarah find themselves caught up in the machinations of the robber baron Irongron and his man from the stars. The alien, a Sontaran named Linx, is arming him with modern weapons in return for helping him repair his damaged ship, and it's up to the Doctor and Sarah to stop him from ruining the Earth's timeline.

Ladies

Act like Brenda

event1980 top_panel_open

MIRIAM: "Here we are; celebrating a marriage, eating a cake, drinking, standing in a uniform, standing in a canteen ... with a Teasmade and a red red garter ... and I want an explanation." VALERIE: "I want to know why you all resent me." BRENDA: "Because you're not one of us."

Nijinsky

Act like Maria Stepanova

event1980 star_border 5.3 top_panel_open

A ballet dancer struggles with his homosexuality and the increasing allure of a young ballerina who seeks to draw him away from his domineering lover.

Going Live!

Act like Self (1 ep.)

event1987 star_border 6 top_panel_open

Going Live! was a Saturday morning magazine show, broadcast on BBC1 between 1987 and 1993. It was presented by Phillip Schofield and Sarah Greene. Other presenters included Trevor and Simon, Peter Simon, Emma Forbes, and puppet Gordon the Gopher. The show was broadcast during the autumn to spring seasons, with other shows such as the 8:15 from Manchester and Parallel 9 taking over during the summer months. It was preceded by Saturday Superstore, and succeeded by Live & Kicking. In 1988, when the second series started, Greene was hurt in a helicopter crash with her then boyfriend, Mike Smith. Guest presenters stood in for her including T'Pau's Carol Decker. Similarly, in 1992-93 during the final series, Schofield was starring in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and was unable to present the show. A third presenter took his place. Originally, Neighbours actor Kristian Schmid took the role but soon left after problems with his work permit. Various other celebrities to stand in included Shane Richie and Robbie Williams during his Take That days.

EastEnders

Act like Dot Cotton (3777 ep.)

event1985 star_border 4.1 top_panel_open

The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.

Z-Cars

(1 ep.)

event1962 star_border 7 top_panel_open

Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.

The Terry and Gaby Show

(1 ep.)

event2003 star_border 5 top_panel_open

The Terry and Gaby Show was a daytime television show broadcast on Five on weekday mornings between June 2003 and April 2004, produced by Chris Evans' company UMTV. It was hosted by Terry Wogan and Gaby Roslin. The opening titles featured Gaby dressed up like a movie star driven to the studio in a limo and walking on red carpet to the door. Meanwhile Terry, carrying a briefcase, rode a rickety old bicycle across London and parked it outside the back door before quietly entering the building through said back door. The show was not well known for the guests who appeared on it, but rather for its many bloopers or double entendres

Survivors

Act like Susan (1 ep.)

event1975 star_border 7.9 top_panel_open

Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977. It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an accidentally released plague – referred to as "The Death" – that kills nearly the entire human population of the planet.

Doomwatch

Act like Kit Pedler (1 ep.)

event1970 star_border 5.7 top_panel_open

Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist, responsible for investigating and combating various ecological and technological dangers. The series was followed by a film adaptation produced by Tigon British Film Productions and released in 1972, and a revival TV film was broadcast on Channel 5 in 1999.

Gormenghast

Act like Nannie Slagg (4 ep.)

event2000 star_border 7 top_panel_open

At the Castle of Gormenghast, the Groan family has ruled with dusty ceremony for more than seventy generations. A clever and ambitious new kitchen boy, Steerpike, begins to insinuate himself into the affections of Lady Fuchsia Groan and to murder his way to power.

Angels

(1 ep.)

event1975 star_border 3.7 top_panel_open

Angels is a BBC medical soap-opera which launched on 1st September 1975 and was the blue print for such medical soaps as Casualty, Holby City, plus daytime soap, Doctors. The medical soap focuses on different departments within Heath Green Hospital and was a highly successful continuing drama.

The Duchess of Duke Street

(2 ep.)

event1976 star_border 7.8 top_panel_open

Set in London between 1900 and 1925, the story follows Louisa Leyton/Trotter, the eponymous "Duchess", who works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St. James's.

Oliver Twist

(1 ep.)

event1985 star_border 5.6 top_panel_open

Oliver Twist is a 1985 BBC TV serial. It was directed by Gareth Davies, and adapted by Alexander Baron from the novel by Charles Dickens. It follows the book more closely than any of the other film adaptions.

Pirates

(18 ep.)

event1994 top_panel_open

Pirates is a British children's television sitcom about a family of pirates living in a council house. It featured a number of bizarre characters, such as the "Man in a Sack" and a baby in a pram which was never seen, but gave off a mysterious green glow. The series ran from 1994 to 1997 on Children's BBC, and featured Liz Smith as "Gran".

event1972 star_border 5.7 top_panel_open

It was a time when England was a nation on the cusp of change, an evolving landscape tht lay between Victorian England and the First World War. 'The Edwardians' explores the lives of and events in the lives of many who helped define the era, the "Belle Epoque".

Performance

Act like Spinster (1 ep.)

event1991 star_border 6 top_panel_open

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

Doctor Who

Act like Eleanor (4 ep.)

event1963 star_border 7.9 top_panel_open

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

Who Do You Think You Are?

Act like Self (1 ep.)

event2004 star_border 6.7 top_panel_open

A British genealogy documentary series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past.

Minder

Act like Joany (1 ep.)

event1979 star_border 6.8 top_panel_open

This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.

Play for Today

Act like Hilda (1 ep.)

event1970 star_border 6.1 top_panel_open

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

Sunday Morning Live

Act like Self - Guest (1 ep.)

event2010 top_panel_open

Start Sunday off with the big talking points of the week, with comment from around the UK and instant audience reaction.

Michael Barrymore's Saturday Night Out

Act like Self (1 ep.)

event1988 top_panel_open

A BBC variety entertainment summer series, for the first season presented from The Fort Regent Leisure Centre, Jersey and from The Dominion Theatre in London's Tottenham Court Road for the second.

Ain't Misbehavin'

Act like Mrs Jilkes (3 ep.)

event1997 star_border 8 top_panel_open

Comedy drama set during World War Two following the misadventures of two very different bandsmen - one an ex-air force pilot, the other a draft dodging, scheming private detective - as they get caught up with gangsters and romance in blitz torn London.

Lace

Act like Mrs. Trelawney (2 ep.)

event1984 star_border 6.9 top_panel_open

A young actress gathers three former school friends to find out which one is her natural mother, who gave her up for adoption as a newborn.

Would I Lie to You?

Act like Self (1 ep.)

event2007 star_border 7.7 top_panel_open

A comedic panel show featuring team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell plus two guests per side, hosted by Rob Brydon (formerly Angus Deayton). Each person must reveal embarrassing facts and outrageous lies during a series of different rounds including "Home Truths", "This Is My..." and "Quickfire Lies". It is up to the opposing team to tell tall tales from fantastic facts.

The Graham Norton Show

Act like Self (1 ep.)

event2007 star_border 7.2 top_panel_open

Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.

Dixon of Dock Green

Act like Brenda Walker (1 ep.)

event1955 star_border 5.3 top_panel_open

Created by Ted Willis. Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police station in the East End of London from 1955 to 1976. Some episodes were later remade as a BBC radio series in 2005 and 2006.

Loose Women

Act like Self (1 ep.)

event1999 star_border 3.4 top_panel_open

A panel of four women discuss topical issues, ranging from daily politics and current affairs to celebrity gossip.

The Sweeney

Act like Mrs. Martin (1 ep.)

event1975 star_border 7.7 top_panel_open

Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.

Strictly Come Dancing

Act like Self (1 ep.)

event2004 star_border 5.9 top_panel_open

A dance competition where celebrities compete to be crowned the winner. Who is kicked out of the competition each week is decided by the judges scores and viewer votes. Are today's celebrities fleet of foot or do they have two left feet?

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