He appeared in various roles in the comedy series The Seven Faces of Jim from 1962, alongside Jimmy Edwards and June Whitfield, as well as parts in Bold as Brass and Foreign Affairs ( as the Russian ambassador Grischa Petrovitch ).

He also appeared in BBC1's popular domestic sitcom Terry and June with June Whitfield.

Since 1992, Whitfield has appeared in Jennifer Saunders's sitcom Absolutely Fabulous playing Edina Monsoon's mother.

In 1959, Whitfield appeared in Carry On Nurse, the first of her four appearances in the Carry On film series.

The year after Beggar My Neighbour finished in 1968, Whitfield appeared on Scott On ... for six years until 1974.

During the eight-year run of Terry and June, Whitfield also appeared in It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Minder.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Whitfield also appeared in a series of television advertisements, created for Birds Eye by advertising art director Vernon Howe, featuring the concluding voice-over line: ".. it can make a dishonest woman of you!

Having appeared in an episode of French & Saunders in 1988, from 1992 June Whitfield played Mother / Gran in Jennifer Saunders ' sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.

In 2000, her autobiography And June Whitfield appeared, written with the help of Christopher Douglas.

Since 2000, Whitfield has appeared in The Royal, Midsomer Murders, Marple, New Tricks and Last of the Summer Wine, which she joined in 2005.

Whitfield had an episode of The South Bank Show devoted to her on 29 July 2007 and, in the same year, appeared in the English National Opera's production of On the Town in London's West End.

In 2008, Whitfield appeared in an episode of ITV medical drama, Harley Street.

On September 9, 2011, vocalist Whitfield Crane made an update on the band's official Facebook page stating he appeared 107. 7 The Bone the day before and played a new track called " Love Ain't True " and stating that a 6 track EP and was mixed and finished.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, June Whitfield appeared in a series of television advertisements for Birds Eye products, featuring the concluding voice-over line: ".. it can make a dishonest woman of you !".

* Eileen Whitfield, Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood

Although many of these guest appearances would last for only one episode, some led to a permanent role on the show, as in the cases of Gordon Wharmby, Thora Hird, Jean Alexander, Stephen Lewis, Dora Bryan, Keith Clifford, Brian Murphy, Josephine Tewson, June Whitfield, Barbara Young, and Trevor Bannister.

Five years later in 1992, Julian Clary created Terry and Julian, a Channel 4 sitcom which spoofed the title of Terry and June, and Whitfield made an appearance in one episode.

In 1998, Whitfield played the housekeeper in the London-set episode of Friends " The One with Ross's Wedding, Part Two " and voiced a character in an episode of the animated comedy series Rex the Runt.

The story would be about some recent episode in the lives of Ron, Mr Glum's dim son ( played by Dick Bentley ), and Eth, a plain girl for whom Ron represented her only chance of marriage ( played by June Whitfield ).

In the pilot episode, Rachel left her fiancé, Dr. Barry Farber ( Mitchell Whitfield ), at the altar and moved in with Monica.

The following episode, May ( June Whitfield ) arrived and explained how Blanche had met, fallen in love and had become engaged to a man named Arnold.

The album featured three top 40 hits as well as Norman Whitfield compositions " Too Busy Thinking About My Baby " ( originally recorded by labelmates The Temptations ), " That's The Way Love Is " ( originally recorded by The Isley Brothers ) and a cover of Gladys Knight and the Pips ' " The End of Our Road ".

#" The End of Our Road " ( Strong, Whitfield, Roger Penzabene )

In 2004, it was placed at number 80 on Rolling Stones list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, with the comment that Whitfield had recorded the song with a number of artists with different arrangements, and that with Marvin Gaye he had a " golden idea " when he set the song " in a slower, more mysterious tempo ".

In 1971 Howerd recorded, with June Whitfield, a comedy version of the song " Je t ' aime ", made famous by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, in which she featured as " Mavis " alongside Howerd's " Frank ", and a third unexplained sleeping partner named " Arthur ".

He was formally received at Washington D. C., and he took advantage of this opportunity by traveling overland to Fairhaven, Massachusetts to visit his " foster father ", Captain Whitfield.

Motel California, an album lead vocalist Whitfield Crane described as " heavy, funky, and has everything in it ", initially received lukewarm reviews and sold poorly, though it has gained a minor cult following in recent times.

* Whitfield, Teresa, " Paying the Price: Ignacio Ellacuría and the Murdered Jesuits of El Salvador ", Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995.

Holland – Dozier – Holland are mentioned ( along with the Four Tops and their vocalist Levi Stubbs, as well as Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong ) in the lyrics of the song " Levi Stubbs ' Tears " from the 1986 Billy Bragg album Talking with the Taxman about Poetry ; and also in the lyrics of The Magnetic Fields ' song " The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure ", from their 1999 album 69 Love Songs.

At that point, he was known as " Nicky ", a nickname given to him by his parents after his teddy bear, Nicholas, until an intoxicated Billy Day introduced him to Dick Asher, head of CBS Records, as " Neeko ", while they were recording at CBS Studios, Whitfield Street.

According to Gene Roddenberry and Stephen Whitfield, the prominence of a woman among the crew of a starship was one of the reasons that the original Star Trek pilot was rejected by NBC, who, in addition to calling the pilot " too cerebral ", felt that the alien Spock and a female senior officer would be rejected by audiences, although Roddenberry also related the tale of how women of the era had difficulty accepting her as well.

Cover versions of her hits have been recorded by Madeline Bell, The Belle Stars, Laura Branigan, Aaron Carter, Gary Glitter, Ricardo Ray, Pia Zadora, Southern Culture on the Skids, and Gladys Knight and the Pips ( a version of " The Nitty Gritty ", produced by Norman Whitfield ).

* " Of Riddles Wrapped in Enigmas ", Whitfield Diffie, The Times Higher Education Supplement, September 10, 1999, page 25.

Starr introduced them to Norman Whitfield, Motown's ' psychedelic shaman ' who was responsible for bringing a progressive funk-rock slant to the company, via such productions as Starr's " War ", The Undisputed Truth's " Smiling Faces Sometimes " and The Temptations " Papa Was A Rolling Stone ".

After hearing Aretha Franklin's version of " Respect ", Whitfield rearranged " Grapevine " to include some of the funk elements of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.

That year, the Marvelettes reached the top forty with the Norman Whitfield production, " Too Many Fish in the Sea ", reaching # 25 with the recording.

During his 25-year career, Whitfield co-wrote and produced many enduring hits for various Motown artists, including " Ain't Too Proud to Beg ", "( I Know ) I'm Losing You ", " I Heard It Through the Grapevine ", " Cloud Nine ", " I Can't Get Next to You ", " War ", " Ball of Confusion ( That's What the World Is Today )", " Just My Imagination ( Running Away with Me )", " Smiling Faces Sometimes ", " Papa Was a Rollin ' Stone " and " Car Wash ".

Whitfield had a few early successes, including co-writing the Marvin Gaye hit " Pride & Joy ", The Marvelettes's " Too Many Fish in the Sea " and The Velvelettes's " Needle in a Haystack ", but he found his place at Motown when he began producing.

Whitfield had a smash hit in 1976 with Rose Royce's " Car Wash ", issued on MCA Records.

On 7 May 1974, a Comedy Playhouse pilot called " Happy Ever After " aired on BBC1 with Scott and Whitfield playing Terry and June Fletcher, a middle-class couple whose grown-up children have just left home.

After the songwriting trio Holland – Dozier – Holland left the label in 1967 over royalty payment disputes, Norman Whitfield became the company's top producer, turning out hits for The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, and Gladys Knight & the Pips.

The county ( Whitfield ) sued and won the right to take over the tax.

In 1996 a masterplan by William Whitfield was adopted and put into action over the following years.

Whitfield also arranged sports scholarships for over 5, 000 African athletes to study in the United States.

At the time of filming, Lawrence was over a decade younger than his leading lady, Whitfield, who was 43 at the time.

Among the imprints it distributed that were notable in these fields were Seymour Stein's Sire Records ( which Warner Bros. soon purchased ), Curtis Mayfield's Curtom, Norman Whitfield's Whitfield Records, Quincy Jones ' Qwest, Prince's Paisley Park, RFC Records ( formed in December 1978 when Ray Caviano became the executive director of Warner's disco division ), Tom Silverman's Tommy Boy Records ( another label Warner Bros. eventually took over ).

The vigorous controversy over the existence P. spiralis has been covered in Nature ( Whitfield, 2002 ), New York Times ( Mydans, 2002 ), and Science ( Malakoff, 2001 ).

Whitfield recorded the song with Marvin Gaye over five sessions, the first on February 3, 1967, and the final one on April 10, 1967.

Gladys Knight was not pleased that Gaye's version usurped her own, and claimed that Gaye's version was recorded over an instrumental track Whitfield had prepared for a Pips song, an allegation Gaye denied.

For over seven years, TV personality Timberly Whitfield served as programming executive and producer for several series on A + E.

Hudd and Emmett were with the show since its inception while Whitfield joined the show in 1984, taking over from Alison Steadman, who in her turn had replaced original cast member Janet Brown.