June Rosemary Whitfield, CBE (born 11 November 1925) is an English actress who has been well known in the United Kingdom since the 1950s for her radio and television roles.
Her first big break was a lead role in the radio comedy Take It From Here, and television roles soon followed, including appearing with Tony Hancock in the famous Hancock episode "The Blood Donor". In 1966, Whitfield played her first television sitcom role, in Beggar My Neighbour and this ran for two years. She also starred in three Carry On films around this time, and later in the 1992 film Carry On Columbus.
In 1974 June Whitfield and Terry Scott begun their long television partnership and appeared as husband and wife in Happy Ever After and Terry and June. From 1992 to 2005 she appeared in Jennifer Saunders's sitcom Absolutely Fabulous and has since played a regular character in Last of the Summer Wine.
Original voice of Eth in "Glums, The" (1978).
Her daughter is British comedy actress Suzy Aitchison.
She was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the order of the British Empire) in 1985. She was awarded the C.B.E. (Commander of the order of the British Empire) in 1998.
