June Whitfield of the Irving Berlin song "You're Just in Love" in "A Royal Night of One Hundred Stars". In 1982 she was made a Freeman of the City of London and was made an OBE in 1985. Having appeared in an episode of "French and Saunders" in 1988, from 1992 Whitfield played Mother/Gran in Jennifer Saunders' sitcom "Absolutely Fabulous". In 2000, she featured with the rest of the "Absolutely Fabulous" cast in the pilot "Mirrorball". From 1993 to 2001, she played Miss Marple in 12 radio adaptations of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple books. Since 1990, she has appeared in films such
James Saunders (playwright) transfer in April 1979, starring Dinsdale Landen, Gwen Watford, David Burke and Angela Down. Saunders' television work included "Watch Me I'm a Bird" (1964), and the BBC sitcom "Bloomers" (1979), starring Richard Beckinsale (in the year that he died) playing an unsuccessful actor working in a flower shop. Beckinsale's co-star was Anna Calder-Marshall. Stage plays include: James Saunders (playwright) James Saunders (8 January 1925 – 29 January 2004) was a prolific English playwright born in Islington, London. His early plays led to him being considered one of the leading British exponents of the Theatre of the Absurd. He was educated