June Lockhart
Acting
- Born:
- 1925-06-25
- Died:
- 2025-10-23
- Place of birth:
- New York City, New York, USA
Biography
June Lockhart (June 25, 1925 – October 23, 2025) was an American actress, beginning a film career in the 1930s and 1940s in films such as A Christmas Carol and Meet Me in St. Louis. She appeared primarily in 1950s and 1960s television and with performances on stage and in film. On two television series, Lassie and Lost in Space, she played mother roles. Lockhart also portrayed Dr. Janet Craig on the CBS television sitcom Petticoat Junction (1968–70). She was a two-time Emmy Award nominee and a Tony Award winner. With a career spanning nearly 90 years, Lockhart was one of the last surviving actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood. In 1951, Lockhart married John F. Maloney. They had two daughters, Anne Kathleen and June Elizabeth. The couple divorced in 1959. She married architect John Lindsay that same year, but they divorced in October 1970 and she never remarried. A Roman Catholic, Lockhart and her daughter Anne and actress Kay Lenz met Pope John Paul II in 1985. Lockhart had a lifelong fascination with American presidential candidates and the media's coverage of them. Her friend reporter Merriman Smith arranged for her to travel with both major-party candidates Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson during the 1956 presidential election and again with both campaigns in the 1960 election. Between 1957 and 2004, Lockhart attended many presidential briefings. Although a child of the Greatest Generation, Lockhart embraced rock music and listened to emerging rock bands. In an interview, her Lost in Space co-star Bill Mumy stated that she took Angela Cartwright and him to the Whisky a Go Go nightclub in Hollywood "to hang out with The Allman Brothers Band". Appearing on The Virginia Graham Show in 1970 with Art Metrano and LGBT cleric Troy Perry, Lockhart confronted Graham about her moralizing tone toward gay people. Lockhart turned 100 on June 25, 2025. She died of natural causes at her home in Santa Monica, California, on October 23, 2025. CLR [biography, excerpted, from Wikipedia]
Known For
Filmography
Bongee Bear and the Kingdom of Rhythm
The Remake
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Zombie Hamlet
Super Capers
Wesley
Holiday in Handcuffs
Sergeant York: Of God and Country
Grey's Anatomy
Complete Savages
Cold Case
Las Vegas
Rock Me Baby
Deterrence
The Thundering 8th
Lost in Space
Lost in Space Forever
Fired Up
7th Heaven
Out There
The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen
The Colony
The Drew Carey Show
Sleep with Me
The Story of Lassie
Duckman
The Critic
Babylon 5
The John Larroquette Show
The Presence
The Ren & Stimpy Show
Dead Women in Lingerie
Beverly Hills, 90210
The Big Picture
The New Lassie
C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud
Roseanne
Rented Lips
Whisper Kill
Perfect People
Howie from Maui
Full House
It's Garry Shandling's Show
Troll
The Colbys
Amazing Stories
The Night They Saved Christmas
Murder, She Wrote
Strange Invaders
Deadly Games
Peking Encounter
Hotel
The Capture of Grizzly Adams
Butterfly
Falcon Crest
Darkroom
The Greatest American Hero
Magnum, P.I.
Knots Landing
Walking Through the Fire
The Gift of Love
Vega$
A Double Life
Loose Change
Just Tell Me You Love Me
Curse of the Black Widow
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
Quincy, M.E.
Mobile One
Ellery Queen
Joe Forrester
Who Is the Black Dahlia?
These Are the Days
Happy Days
Police Story
The Bait
ABC Afterschool Special
The Man and the City
But I Don't Want to Get Married!
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Lassie: The Adventures of Neeka
Adam-12
Family Affair
Lost in Space
Branded
Lost in Space - No Place to Hide
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Bewitched
Lassie: Disappearance
Lassie's Greatest Adventure
Mr. Novak
Petticoat Junction
Lassie's Great Adventure
The Merv Griffin Show
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Mike Douglas Show
Disneyland '59
Rawhide
The Nutcracker
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Time Limit
Perry Mason
Have Gun, Will Travel
Confession
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Matinee Theater
The Alcoa Hour
Gunsmoke
Miss Universe
Climax!
Lassie
General Electric Theater
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Lux Video Theatre
Your Show of Shows
Robert Montgomery Presents
Lights Out
Studio One
The Philco Television Playhouse
T-Men
Bury Me Dead
It's a Joke, Son!
The Yearling
Easy to Wed
She-Wolf of London
Son of Lassie
Keep Your Powder Dry
Meet Me in St. Louis
The White Cliffs of Dover
Forever and a Day
Miss Annie Rooney
Sergeant York
Adam Had Four Sons
All This, and Heaven Too
A Christmas Carol