June Lockhart, star of Lassie and Lost in Space, has died aged 100.

Her face flashing across the small screen, June Lockhart died of natural causes at her home Thursday evening, her daughter and granddaughter by her side. term. To the general public, she will be known as Tim’s mother in the series Lassie and the female protagonist of the SF series Lost in Space, but she was much more.

His debut with the Hawks and Minelli

He cut his teeth on Broadway in the 1930s and made his film debut in 1938 with an uncredited role in a version of A Christmas Carol and two years later landed a major role in Anatole Litvak’s The Stranger. In 1941 she played the sister of Gary Cooper’s character in Sergeant York by Howard Hawks, then we found her in the credits of Vincent Minnelli’s Missouri.

She got her first major role in a revision of the she-wolf myth (B series London’s She-Wolf) and first appeared in the best-known collie The Son of Lassie (1945). However, she struggled to find roles on the big screen and moved to television for dramas throughout the 1950s.

The Adventures of Lass

We’re giving him another chance when he becomes the hero of seasons 5 to 10 of the series. LassIt was broadcast from 1958 to 1964. She takes on a role she played differently in Son of Lassie and becomes Ruth Martin, the mother of Tommy Martin, the young boy who owns Lassie. She also became the star of Lassie, the Great Adventure, released in 1963.

At the end of Lassie, June Lockhart starred in the sci-fi series Lost in Space, in which she again starred opposite Guy Williams, freed from the role of Zorro. The series only lasted for 3 seasons, but over time it became a cult, to the point that it got a remake on Netflix.

After Lassie and Lost in Space, Lockhart played a doctor in the sitcom Petticoat Junction from 1968 to 1970, then made guest appearances in the 70s and 80s and appeared in the films The Invaders Are Along Us (1983) and The Big Picture (1989).

After returning to Dog World for an episode of The New Adventures of Lassie (1989), she found a new recurring role on Central Hospital from 1984 to 1998. He was seen again in Lost in Space (1998) with Gary Oldman, William Hurt and Matt LeBlanc, and ended his career with his Organization of Heroes at Alpha LeBlanc. mission) in Netflix’s Lost in Space remake in 2021.