Lassie and Lost In Space actress dies

June Lockhart, who starred successful tv shows specified arsenic Lassie and Lost In Space, has died astatine the property of 100.

The US histrion died of earthy causes astatine her location successful Santa Monica, California, connected Thursday, according to household spokesperson Lyle Gregory.

He said: "She was precise blessed up until the precise end, speechmaking the New York Times and LA Times each day.

"It was precise important to her to enactment focused connected the quality of the day."

For much than 200 episodes betwixt 1958 and 1964, she played the relation of Ruth Martin, who raised the orphaned Timmy (Jon Provost) successful Lassie - a amusement astir the adventures of a brave and intelligent Rough Collie dog.

And from 1965 to 1968 spanning implicit 80 episodes, Lockhart was Maureen Robinson, a parent who was portion of a marooned household that travelled connected the spaceship Jupiter II successful Lost In Space.

She was nominated for 2 Emmys, including champion histrion successful a starring relation successful a melodramatic bid for her show successful Lassie successful 1959.

She besides received 2 stars connected the Hollywood Walk of Fame, 1 for question representation and 1 for television.

Born successful New York City successful 1925, she was the girl of histrion Gene Lockhart and histrion Kathleen Lockhart.

Feature movie debut

She made her diagnostic movie debut aged 13, starring alongside some of her parents successful the 1938 accumulation A Christmas Carol, wherever she played Belinda Cratchit, the girl of Bob Cratchit.

After her breakout role, she appeared successful films specified arsenic All This, and Heaven Too, Meet Me successful St. Louis, The Yearling, and Sergeant York.

She was besides successful Son Of Lassie, the 1945 sequel to Lassie, Come Home, playing the grown-up mentation of the relation created by Elizabeth Taylor.

Over astir 8 decades connected screen, Lockhart appeared successful dozens of TV bid and movies, including erstwhile she was good successful her 80s.

Other roles

She had recurring roles connected Petticoat Junction, General Hospital, and Beverly Hills 90210, and impermanent appearances connected shows including The Beverly Hillbillies, The Colbys, Knots Landing and Happy Days, arsenic good arsenic Full House, Roseanne and Grey's Anatomy.

Of her clip connected Lassie, Lockhart spoke frankly astir her canine co-star.

She said: "I worked with 4 Lassies. There was lone 1 main Lassie astatine a time. Then determination was a canine that did the running, a canine that did the fighting, and a canine that was a stand-in, due to the fact that lone humans tin enactment 14 hours a time without needing a nap.

"Lassie was not particularly affable with anybody. Lassie was wholly concentrated connected the trainers."

Even though she sometimes mocked the show, she conceded: "How fantastic that successful a vocation determination is 1 relation for which you are known. Many actors enactment each their lives and ne'er person 1 portion that is truly theirs."

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In Lost In Space, Lockhart was portion of a household that near Earth connected a five-year formation to a faraway planet.

After their ngo was sabotaged by chap rider Dr Zachary Smith, the radical went from satellite to planet, encountering unusual creatures and near-disasters wherever viewers needed to ticker the pursuing week to larn of the escape.

Speaking fondly astir moving connected Lost successful Space, Lockhart said: "It was similar going to enactment astatine Disneyland each day."

She was joined and divorced twice: to John Maloney, a physician, begetter of her daughters Anne Kathleen and June Elizabeth; and designer John C Lindsay.