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 Hon...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Lock-In
2022
as Dot Cotton
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...
June Brown at 90: A Walford Legend
2017
as Self
Beloved BBC soap actress June Brown chats about her life and 67 year career.
Spidarlings
2016
as 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.
Ethel & Ernest
2016
as 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 t...
The Children's Party at the Palace
2006
as 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 f...
Margery and Gladys
2003
as Gladys Gladwell
When wealthy, recently-widowed suburban housewife, Margery (PENELOPE KEITH), and her ‘rough diamond’ of a cleaner, Gladys (JUNE BROWN), disturb a hous...
EastEnders: Dot's Story
2003
as Dot Cotton
Dot travels to Wales to visit the now very ill woman who she stayed with during World War II.
Wendy Richard: A Life on the Box
2001
Profile of actress Wendy Richard's remarkable television career, featuring classic clips and contributions from colleagues.
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
as Self
The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.
Toby the Square Boy
1999
as (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...
Bean
1997
as Delilah
Childlike Englishman, Mr. Bean, is an incompetent watchman at the Royal National Gallery. After the museum's board of directors' attempt to have him f...
Hospital!
1997
as Cleaner
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 spe...
Bed
1995
as Spinster
Surreal drama about seven old people living in the same bed, by Jim Cartwright.
Misunderstood
1983
as Mrs. Paley
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 Lady's Maid's Bell
1983
as Emma Saxon
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...
Broken Glass
1982
as Sheila Heron
A private detective caring for his wife who is suffering from dementia investigates the disappearance of a young girl. Soon, however, he begins diggin...
Sorry
1981
as 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...
Ladies
1980
as 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 ...
Nijinsky
1980
as Maria Stepanova
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.
Instant Enlightenment Including VAT
1979
as Melanie
BBC Play for Today. Maximillian Schreiber runs a series of gruelling motivational courses - all coming at a cost to the participants - including VAT.
The Shining Pyramid
1979
as 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 an...
Murder by Decree
1979
as Annie Chapman
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 informat...
A Christmas Carol
1977
as Mrs. Dilber
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...
South Riding
1974
as Lily Sawdon
An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel
Doctor Who: The Time Warrior
1974
as 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 deduc...
Brenda
1973
as Alice Penny
Brenda is 20 and has moved back to her parents' house in an attempt for some stability in her life.
The 14
1973
as 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 overwh...
Psychomania
1973
as 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 the...
Horatio Bottomley
1972
as 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 ...
A Touch of the Victorians
1972
as Ruth Preston
An Amateur Drama Troupe putting on a show at an old people's home, start to improvise the script with their own personal problems.
Sitting Target
1972
as 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 beauti...
Straw Dogs
1971
as Mrs. Hebden (uncredited)
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David an...
Edna: The Inebriate Woman
1971
as 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 deteriorati...
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971
as Woman Patient
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately...
Inadmissible Evidence
1968
as 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...
Way Off Beat
1966
as Mrs. Wentworth
Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club.
It Started in Paradise
1952
as 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 al...