June Brown First Husband: Who Was John Garley?

June Muriel Brown OBE was an English actress and author.

She was recognized for her role as Dot Cotton on the BBC soap opera EastEnders.

In 2005, she won Best Actress at the Inside Soap Awards and received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the British Soap Awards.

Brown died on April 3, 2022, at the age of 95.

June Brown First Husband: Who Was John Garley?

June Brown has been married twice. Her first husband was former John Gascoigne Garley.

John Garley was a British actor.  He was born on October 31, 1926, in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England.

Garley featured in several films and television shows including Sara Crewe (1951), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and The Black Arrow (1951).

Garley was married to June Brown. The duo tied the knot on February 24, 1950, and were together until his death on May 8, 1957, in Hammersmith, London, England.

According to reports, he suffered from depression, and hence committed suicide using a gas fire.

June believed she was to blame for leaving money for the gas meter.

In an interview with the sun, she said: “I walked into the bedroom and there was Johnny, lying on the bed, the gas fire propped up next to him. Suicide was still a criminal offence in the late fifties. I’d got him breathing again but he lasted three days in hospital before dying on May 8.”