Actress June Lockhart
Lifeless at 100 …
‘Lassie,’ ‘Misplaced in Area’ Star
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June Lockhart — a legendary tv actress of the Nineteen Fifties, ’60s and ’70s — has died.
Lockhart handed away Thursday in Santa Monica, simply after 9 PM native time along with her daughter June Elizabeth, and her granddaughter, Christianna, by her facet, TMZ can affirm. June died from pure causes.
The daughter of actors Gene and Kathleen Lockhart, June secured her first credited position within the 1940 film “All This, and Heaven Too” when she was nonetheless simply a teen.
June grabbed elements in iconic movies like “Meet Me in St. Louis,” “Sergeant York” and “T-Men” in the course of the ’40s earlier than making the bounce to tv when the medium took off within the Nineteen Fifties.
She secured her first large position within the “Lassie” TV present in 1958 when she took over the position of June Martin from Cloris Leachman … an element she performed in additional than 200 episodes of the present, from ’58 by way of ’64.
After “Lassie”, Lockhart appeared in a collection of TV reveals like “The Man From U.N.C.L.E” and “Bewitched” — all the time in a single episode bit elements.
Science fiction followers could acknowledge her as Dr. Maureen Robinson the biochemist in “Lost in Space” in all 84 episodes of the present.
Different reveals embrace … “Petticoat Junction,” “The Beverly Hillbillies,” “Vega$,” “Murder, She Wrote,” “Babylon 5,” “Beverly Hills, 90210,” “Johnny Bravo” and extra. In her closing position, she lent her voice to the a part of Alpha Management within the “Lost in Space” reboot.
June has 2 stars on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame — one for TV and one for films. She married twice, with each marriages ending in divorce.
Lockhart was 100.
RIP
