Editing June Whitfield (section)

=== Early career ===
Whitfield began her career in the 1940s working with [[Wilfred Pickles]], and worked on stage in the [[West End theatre|West End]] and the regions.

In 1951, she had her first credited television role in ''[[The Passing Show]]'' and joined the London cast of the musical ''[[South Pacific (musical)|South Pacific]]''.

Her big break came in 1953 when she replaced [[Joy Nichols]] in the successful [[Frank Muir]] and [[Denis Norden]] radio comedy ''[[Take It from Here]]'', co-starring [[Jimmy Edwards]] and [[Dick Bentley]]. In the portion of the show known as "The Glums" she played Eth, fiancée of the dim Ron Glum (played by Bentley).<ref name="Museum"/> During the next fifteen years Whitfield had many supporting roles on television, including in ''[[Dixon of Dock Green]]'', ''[[Arthur's Treasured Volumes]]'', ''[[The Arthur Askey Show]]'', ''[[Faces of Jim]]'', ''[[The Benny Hill Show]]'', ''[[Steptoe and Son]]'' and ''[[Frankie Howerd]]''. She played the nurse in the opening scene of "[[The Blood Donor]]" (''[[Hancock's Half Hour|Hancock]]'', 1961). Whitfield's daughter [[Suzy Aitchison]] would play the same role in the 2009 re-recording  with [[Paul Merton]] portraying Tony Hancock.

In 1959, she appeared in ''[[Carry On Nurse]]'', the first of her four appearances in the [[Carry On (franchise)|''Carry On'' film series]].<ref name="Museum" />