June Ritchie

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| name = June Ritchie

| birth_name = June Rose Ritchie

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1941|5|31}}

| birth_place = Blackpool, Lancashire, England'Lancashire BMD Website'

| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 1962–1988

| spouse = {{Marriage|Marcus Turnbull|1962|1976|end=divorced}}{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/63/June-Ritchie.html|title=June Ritchie Biography ((?)-)|website=filmreference.com|accessdate=21 June 2019}}'‘Callan's not so lonely now"', Daily Mirror, Saturday 8 January 1972
{{Marriage|David Drew|1985|2015|end=died}}

| children = 1

}}

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June Rose Ritchie (born 31 May 1941){{Cite web |title=June Ritchie – Pages dedicated to the actress June Ritchie |url=https://juneritchie.co.uk/biography/ |access-date=2025-06-08 |website=JuneRitchie.co.uk}} is a British actress.{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/11pq/june-ritchie|title=June Ritchie – Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}}

Early life

She attended Stretford Children's Theatre from the age of nine. She left school in Manchester, aged 16, to train as a secretary,Peterborough Evening Telegraph Tuesday 29 May 1962, page 4 working for the Manchester Ship Canal Company. Her parents lived in Shrewsbury StreetManchester Evening News Thursday 17 February 1955, page 4 and King’s Crescent in Old Trafford.Manchester Evening News Tuesday 31 October 1961, page 6

Ritchie trained at RADA,{{cite web|url=https://www.rada.ac.uk/profiles/june-ritchie/|title=June Ritchie – RADA|last=Fabrique|website=rada.ac.uk|accessdate=21 June 2019}} where she graduated in 1961, having won the Emile Littler Award for Most Promising Actress and the Ronson Award for the outstanding female student.

Biography

She came to prominence after starring in the role of Ingrid Rothwell opposite Alan Bates in the 1962 film adaptation of A Kind of Loving.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V7vPDQAAQBAJ&dq=cyril+ritchard+The+Encyclopedia+of+British+Film%3A+Fourth+edition&pg=PA1990-IA221|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition|first=Brian|last=McFarlane|date=16 May 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9781526111968}}

In 1963, she starred with Margaret Rutherford in the comedy The Mouse on the Moon and appeared as a 'dance hostess' with Sylvia Syms in The World Ten Times Over.{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ef3f1fe|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824165203/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ef3f1fe|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 August 2017|title=June Ritchie|website=BFI}} She also made two movies with Ian Hendry at around the same time, Live Now, Pay Later and This is My Street.{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-british-moguls-nat-cohen-part-three-1962-68/|date=21 January 2025|access-date=21 January 2025|title=Forgotten British Moguls: Nat Cohen – Part Three (1962-68)}}

After marrying and starting a family, she cut back on her acting roles, but later made a successful comeback on stage (most memorably in a high-profile musical adaptation of Gone with the Wind in London), and appeared in many British television dramas including The Mallens, The Saint, The Baron,Episode No. 27 'Roundabout' Minder, Tales of the Unexpected, and Père Goriot.{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/masterpiece/episodes-season-1/191638|title=Masterpiece|website=TV Guide}}

In 1966 Ritchie starred in The Saint (S5,E10 'Little Girl Lost') as Mildred, a fake hostage attempting and failing to get the better of Simon Templar (The Saint).

In 1975, Ritchie joined Ray Davies and the Kinks on their album, Soap Opera, having played the same role in the 1974 single drama, Starmaker, on which the album was based.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/04/kinks-ray-davies-play-starmaker-itv|title=From the archive, 4 September 1974: Kinks' Ray Davies turns playwright|date=4 September 2015|newspaper=The Guardian}} She sang the role of "Andrea" ("Norman"'s wife).{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-kinks-present-a-soap-opera-mw0000203121/credits|title=The Kinks Present a Soap Opera – The Kinks – Credits|publisher=AllMusic}}{{cite web|url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/kinks-soap-opera/|title=Revisiting Another of the Kinks' Theatrical Concept Albums, 'Soap Opera'|website=Ultimate Classic Rock|date=16 May 2015 }}{{Cite web | url=https://www.discogs.com/The-Kinks-Soap-Opera/master/68457 | title=The Kinks – Soap Opera| website=Discogs| year=1975}}

Filmography

=Film=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
1962 \|{{sortname\|A\|Kind of Loving\|A Kind of Loving (film)}} \|Ingrid Rothwell \|
1962 \|Live Now, Pay Later \|Treasure \|
1963 \|{{Interlanguage link multi\|Three Penny Opera (1963 film)\|de\|3=Die Dreigroschenoper (1963)\|lt=Three Penny Opera}} \|Polly Peachum \|
1963 \|{{sortname\|The\|Mouse on the Moon}} \|Cynthia \|
1963 \|{{sortname\|The\|World Ten Times Over}} \|Ginnie \|
1964 \|This Is My Street \|Margery Graham \|
1968 \|{{sortname\|The\|Syndicate\|The Syndicate (1968 film)}} \|Mari Brant \|
1972 \|Hunted \|Margaret Lord \|Short

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1962

|{{sortname|A|Kind of Loving|A Kind of Loving (film)}}

|Ingrid Rothwell

1962

|Live Now, Pay Later

|Treasure

1963

|{{Interlanguage link multi|Three Penny Opera (1963 film)|de|3=Die Dreigroschenoper (1963)|lt=Three Penny Opera}}

|Polly Peachum

1963

|{{sortname|The|Mouse on the Moon}}

|Cynthia

1963

|{{sortname|The|World Ten Times Over}}

|Ginnie

1964

|This Is My Street

|Margery Graham

1968

|{{sortname|The|Syndicate|The Syndicate (1968 film)}}

|Mari Brant

1972

|Hunted

|Margaret Lord

|Short

=Television=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
1965 \|Heiress of Garth \|Josina Griffin \|Miniseries
1966 \|{{sortname\|The\|Saint\|The Saint (TV series)}} \|Mildred \|"Little Girl Lost"
1967 \|Thirty-Minute Theatre \|Jean Charnock \|"Later a Man Was Questioned"
1967 \|{{sortname\|The\|Baron\|The Baron (TV series)}} \|Jeanne Varda \|"Roundabout"
1967 \|Champion House \|Della Chevalier \|"Sonata for a Solo Fiddle"
1968 \|City '68 \|Trixie \|"Love Thy Neighbor"
1968 \|Père Goriot \|Delphine \|Miniseries
1971 \|{{sortname\|The\|Ten Commandments\|nolink=1}} \|Jan Lee \|"Be Lucky"
1971 \|The Persuaders! \|Charlie \|"Element of Risk"
1974 \|Sam \|Jean Tufton \|"A New World", "Legacy"
1974 \|Armchair Cinema \|Susan Carter \|"Sea Song"
1974 \|Late Night Drama \|Wife \|"Starmaker"
1975 \|You're On Your Own \|Kathy \|"No One Wants Any Trouble", "Assault", "Contract to Kill"
1977 \|{{sortname\|The\|Sunday Drama\|nolink=1}} \|Sheila Quince \|"The Cuckoo Calls"
1978 \|Crown Court \|Alison Freeman \|"The Change"
1979 \|Kids \|Janie Snell \|"Harry"
1979 \|Bloomers \|Diana \|"1.1", "1.2"
1979 \|Minder \|Jo \|"The Bounty Hunter"
1980 \|{{sortname\|The\|Mallens}} \|Constance Radlet \|Regular role
1982 \|Tales of the Unexpected \|Jenny Morrissey \|"Operation Safecrack"
1982 \|All for Love \|Esme Fanshow \|"A Bit of Singing and Dancing"
1983 \|{{sortname\|A\|Brother's Tale\|nolink=1}} \|Lucy Browning \|"1.1", "1.3"
1984 \|December Flower \|Margaret Grey \|TV film
1985 \|Summer Season \|Sheila \|"Picture Friend"
1988 \|{{sortname\|The\|Ruth Rendell Mysteries}} \|Nancy Lake \|"Shake Hands Forever: Parts 1–3"

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1965

|Heiress of Garth

|Josina Griffin

|Miniseries

1966

|{{sortname|The|Saint|The Saint (TV series)}}

|Mildred