June Lockhart, Lassie And Misplaced In Area Star, Dies At 100

June Lockhart has handed away on the age of 100. She was identified for her roles in Lassie and the tv collection Misplaced in Area, together with the 1944 musical film Meet Me in St. Louis.

Lockhart died of pure causes on October 23 in her Santa Monica, California house, the place her daughter, June Elizabeth, and granddaughter, Christiana, have been by her aspect.

Lockhart was born on June 25, 1925 in New York Metropolis. Each her mother and father, Gene and Kathleen Lockhart, have been actors. At 13 years previous, her onscreen debut was within the uncredited position of Belinda Cratchit within the 1938 A Christmas Carol film adaptation, a challenge that her mother and father have been additionally starring in. Lockhart’s father performed Bob Cratchit and her mom performed Mrs. Cratchit.

A number of years later, in 1944, Lockhart portrayed Lucille Ballard within the Judy Garland-led film Meet Me in St. Louis. In 1945, she starred within the movie Son of Lassie as Priscilla, the Duke of Rudling’s granddaughter. This got here earlier than the Lassie present that will develop into a defining a part of Lockhart’s profession and legacy.

In 1958, she joined Lassie throughout season 5, taking on the position of Paul’s spouse and Timmy’s adoptive mom Ruth Martin from Cloris Leachman. She performed the position by way of season 10 in 1964. Lockhart obtained an Emmy Award nomination for her Lassie efficiency in 1959.

After Lassie, she went on to star within the CBS science-fiction present Misplaced in Area. She was a collection common in all three seasons of the unique collection, which aired from 1965-1968. Her character was a biochemist and mom, Dr. Maureen Robinson, who was stranded in house together with her household.

There have since been a number of iterations of Misplaced in Area, together with a 1998 film the place she had a job as a college principal. A Netflix reimagining of the science-fiction collection ran for 3 seasons from 2018-2021. In Misplaced in Area season 3, Lockhart could be heard because the voice of a radio communications officer on Alpha Centauri, which turned her ultimate position.

Following Lassie and the unique Misplaced in Area, Lockhart additionally appeared in 46 episodes of Common Hospital from 1984-1998, together with episodes of Magnum, PI, Full Home, Roseanne, seventh Heaven, and Gray’s Anatomy.

Lockhart is survived by Jon Provost, who performed Timmy in Lassie. At 75 years previous, he’s the final surviving member of the present’s foremost forged.

The household of June Lockhart have instructed donations to The Actors Fund, ProPublica, and Worldwide Listening to Canine, Inc.