Lockhart in 1957.
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June Lockhart, beloved on-screen mother on the farm Lassie and in the stars with Lost in Spacedied on October 23 in California at the age of 100. “Mommy always considered acting as her craft, her vocation, but her true passions were journalism, politics, science and NASA,” her daughter June Elizabeth shared in a statement to Deadline. “She cherished playing her role in Lost in Space and she was delighted to know that she inspired many future astronauts, as they would remind her on visits to NASA. That meant even more to her than the hundreds of television and movie roles she played.” Her decades-long career in Hollywood began in 1938 with her family, even she starred in The Christmas Carol alongside her parents, Gene and Kathleen Lockhart, as well as the Cratchit family. Several years later, she played a small role in the movie Son of Lassiea foreshadowing of her role as the mother in the television series, her takeover of the role as the Martin matriarch began in 1958 on CBS. It became her first series regular show.
Her next big on-screen role, after many guest-starring gigs, came from an extraterrestrial in Lost in Space — she played Maureen Robinson, a mother of three, who crashed with her family on an alien planet as they tried to escape Earth. Despite being a pseudo-mother to anyone with a Border Collie, Lockhart always surprised fans with the unexpected when it came to her personal interests. “I love rock ‘n’ roll and going to the concerts. I have driven Army tanks and flown in hot air balloons,” she told AP in 1994. “And I go plane-gliding — the ones with no motors. I do a lot of things that don’t go with my image.”
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