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June Lockhart (born 25 June 1925) is an American television actress best known for her roles as the mothers on Lassie and Lost in Space. She also appeared on television as Dr. Janet Craig on Petticoat Junction.

She was the daughter (and only child) of two actors: Gene Lockhart, who came to fame on Broadway in 1933 in Ah, Wilderness!, and his wife Kathleen, née Arthur, who appeared with her husband in many of his stage plays and several movies, including A Christmas Carol, in which June, as a teen, appeared. June also played supporting parts in films as Meet Me in St. Louis, Sergeant York, and The Yearling.

June Lockhart won a 1948 Tony Award for outstanding performance by a newcomer for her role in For Love or Money.

June Lockhart married John Lindsay in 1959, and they had two daughters. One, Junie Lockhart, also billed as Lizbeth Lockhart, had only a brief acting career, and the other, Anne Lockhart appeared in several television programs, most prominently Battlestar Galactica. (Anne Lockhart married the son of actor Buck Taylor, in his turn the son of actor Dub Taylor).

Filmography

• A Christmas Carol (1938)
• All This and Heaven Too (1940)
• Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
• Sergeant York (1941)
• Miss Annie Rooney (1942)
• Forever and a Day (1943)
• The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
• Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
• Keep Your Powder Dry (1945)
• Son of Lassie (1945)
• She-Wolf of London (1946)
• Easy to Wed (1946)
• The Yearling (1946)
• It's a Joke, Son (1947)
• Bury Me Dead (1947)
• T-Men (1947)
• Time Limit (1957)
• Lassie: A Christmas Tail (1963)
• Lassie's Great Adventure (1965)
• Walk Safe, Young America (1975) (short subject)
• Just Tell Me You Love Me (1980)
• Deadly Games (1982)
• Butterfly (1982)
• Strange Invaders (1983)
• Troll (1986)
• Rented Lips (1988)
• C.H.U.D. II - Bud the Chud (1989)
• The Big Picture (1989)
• Dead Women in Lingerie (1991)
• Sleep with Me (1994)
• Tis the Season (1994)
• The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen (1995) (documentary) (narrator)
• Lost In Space (1998)
• Deterrence (1999)
• The Thundering 8th (2000)
• Bongee Bear and the Kingdom of Rhythm (2006) (voice) (currently in pre-production)

TV Work

• Who Said That? (regular panelist from 1952-1955)
• Lassie (cast member from 1954-1964)
• Oh My Word (1965-1969)
• Lost in Space (1965-1968)
• Lassie: The Adventures of Neeka (1968)
• Petticoat Junction (cast member from 1968-1970)
• But I Don't Want to Get Married! (1970)
• The Bait (1973)
• These Are the Days (1974) (voice) (canceled after 4 months)
• Who Is the Black Dahlia? (1975)
• Curse of the Black Widow (1977)
• A Double Life (1978)
• Loose Change (1978) (miniseries)
• The Gift of Love (1978)
• Walking Through the Fire (1979)
• Dinky Hocker (1979)
• Peking Encounter (1981)
• The Capture of Grizzly Adams (1982)
• The Night They Saved Christmas (1984)
• General Hospital (cast member from 1984-1986 and in 1988, 1990-1992, and 1998)
• Wildfire (1986) (voice) (canceled after 4 months)
• Never Say Goodbye (1988)
• Perfect People (1988)
• A Whisper Kills (1988)
• Danger Island (1992)
• The Colony (1994)
• Out There (1995)
• Au Pair II (2001)

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