June Brown
Also Known As: 六月布朗
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article June Brown, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Needham Market, Suffolk, England, UK
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Birthday: February 16, 1927
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: April 03, 2022
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Bean
Overview: 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.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-03
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A Christmas Carol
Overview: 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.
Genres: Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-24
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Inadmissible Evidence
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-23
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-01
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It Started in Paradise
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-28
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Toby the Square Boy
Overview: 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?
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-19
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Way Off Beat
Overview: Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-08
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Misunderstood
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-10
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The Children's Party at the Palace
Overview: 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?
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-25
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Murder by Decree
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-01
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Bed
Overview: Surreal drama about seven old people living in the same bed, by Jim Cartwright.
Genres: Fantasy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-20
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The Shining Pyramid
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-22
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Straw Dogs
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-25
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Hospital!
Overview: 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.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-30
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Brenda
Overview: Brenda is 20 and has moved back to her parents' house in an attempt for some stability in her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-11
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A Touch of the Victorians
Overview: An Amateur Drama Troupe putting on a show at an old people's home, start to improvise the script with their own personal problems.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-05
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The Lady's Maid's Bell
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-27
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The Lock-In
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-01
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Spidarlings
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Horror Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-31
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Psychomania
Overview: 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...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-01
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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Overview: The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-25
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Margery and Gladys
Overview: 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.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-21
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The 14
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-15
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June Brown at 90: A Walford Legend
Overview: Beloved BBC soap actress June Brown chats about her life and 67 year career.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-16
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Edna: The Inebriate Woman
Overview: 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.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-21
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South Riding
Overview: An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-16
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Sorry
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-03
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Horatio Bottomley
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-28
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EastEnders: Dot's Story
Overview: Dot travels to Wales to visit the now very ill woman who she stayed with during World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-02
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Instant Enlightenment Including VAT
Overview: BBC Play for Today. Maximillian Schreiber runs a series of gruelling motivational courses - all coming at a cost to the participants - including VAT.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-22
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Sitting Target
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-01
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Ethel & Ernest
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-15
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Wendy Richard: A Life on the Box
Overview: Profile of actress Wendy Richard's remarkable television career, featuring classic clips and contributions from colleagues.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-12
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Doctor Who: The Time Warrior
Overview: 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.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-05
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Ladies
Overview: 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."
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-27
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Nijinsky
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-20
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Broken Glass
Overview: A private detective caring for his wife who is suffering from dementia investigates the disappearance of a young girl. Soon, however, he begins digging up the girl's dark family secrets.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-11
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