June Brown
Рождение : 1927-02-16, Needham Market, Suffolk, England, UK
Смерть : 2022-04-03
История
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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Herself
Beloved BBC soap actress June Brown chats about her life and 67 year career.
June
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.
Ernest's Step Mother (voice)
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.
Aunt Spiker (James and the Giant Peach)
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?
Gladys Gladwell
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.
Dot Cotton
Dot travels to Wales to visit the now very ill woman who she stayed with during World War II.
The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.
(voice)
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?
Delilah
Мистер Бин работает смотрителем в Королевской Британской Галерее. Начальство давно уволило бы его по формулировке «за сон на рабочем месте», если бы не покровительство директора. Вместо этого Бина отправляют в командировку в Лос-Анджелес. Там его принимают за официальное лицо, приехавшее на открытие величайшей выставки США…
Spinster
Surreal drama about seven old people living in the same bed, by Jim Cartwright.
Mrs. Paley
Успешный судоходный магнат Нед Роули только что стал вдовцом, и теперь он должен воспитывать своих маленьких сыновей Эндрю и Майлза сам. Но Неду, который не очень хорошо знает своих детей, приходится нелегко. Римейк одноимённого фильма Луиджи Коменчини 1966 года.
June
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.
Brenda
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."
Maria Stepanova
Фильм рассказывает о жизни и творчестве легендарного танцовщика Вацлава Нижинского и о его взаимоотношениях с женой Ромолой, а также учителем Сергеем Дягилевым.
Melanie
BBC Play for Today. Maximillian Schreiber runs a series of gruelling motivational courses - all coming at a cost to the participants - including VAT.
Mrs. Joy
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.
Anne Chapman
1888 город Лондон. Горожане обращаются к Шерлоку Холмсу и доктору Ватсону с просьбой найти и остановить Джека Потрошителя. По каким-то неизвестным причинам полиция всячески препятствует участию Холмса в расследовании. Улика за уликой, одно убийство за другим нитью выводят Шерлока Холмса к одному из самых влиятельных и богатых представителей британской короны.
Mrs. Dilber
«Если бы я мог исполнить своё желание, каждый идиот, у которого с губ сходит слово - «Счастливого Рождества!», то он был бы сварен в своём собственном пудинге и похоронен с осиновым колом в сердце». Так говорил бессмертные слова о Рождестве, «самый известный скряга» Чарльза Дикеннса - Эбенезер Скрудж. Вместо того чтобы присоединиться к празднованию; он сидит один в канун Рождества. Декорированная сцена с посещением призрака его покойного делового партнёра Марли, который теперь привязан к земле вечными цепями и его знакомством с Призраками прошлого, настоящего и будущего Рождества. Ибо именно они проведут его через всю его жизнь, чтобы узнать правду о себе...
Lily Sawdon
An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel
Lady Eleanor
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.
The Mother
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.
Mrs. Pettibone
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...
Eliza Bottomley
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.
Lomart's Neighbour
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.
Mrs. Hebden (uncredited)
Застенчивый американский математик Дэвид переезжает в сельскую Англию на ферму, где родилась и выросла его сексапильная жена. Местное население настроено враждебно и ведет себя как стая мародеров из «Ночи живых мертвецов». И робкий математик, убежденный противник насилия, больше всего на свете обожающий тишину и уединение, вынужден защищать свою честь с оружием в руках. А почуяв запах крови, он уже не может остановиться и начинает убивать, убивать, убивать…
Clara, in Psychiatric Hospital
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.
Woman Patient
Апатию, охватившую английское общество в начале 70-х годов, Джон Шлезингер тонко отразил в своем фильме 1971 года «Воскресенье, проклятое воскресенье», который можно воспринимать как метафорическую картину горького пробуждения после бума 60-х, когда англичане вдруг увидели, что живут в захудалой стране, где люди согласны даже на «половину куска». Фильм повествует об одной неделе из жизни респектабельного пожилого доктора и интеллигентной женщины средних лет, которые не только пользуются одной телефонной службой, но и, как выясняется, делят одного любовника - амбициозного молодого изобретателя, в конце концов бросающего их обоих и уезжающего в Америку в поисках лучшей жизни.
Watson's Guest
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.
Announcer
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.
