# June Lockhart has died at 100 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [October 25, 2025, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-lockhart-has-died-at-100/1024283 "2025-10-25T20:05:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-lockhart-has-died-at-100/1024283/1 "2025-10-25T20:05:17Z")
I was suprised she was still going. She was my first TV mom in Lost in Space, then on Lassie reruns. RiP June. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-lockhart-has-died-at-100/1024283/2 "2025-10-25T20:08:02Z")
You don’t think she fell down a well, do you? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-lockhart-has-died-at-100/1024283/3 "2025-10-25T20:08:37Z")
She spoke out [on television against homophobia back in 1970.](https://youtu.be/Xm2q-F6FdoY?si=udYxKl0HOqtVtSlE) A class act! ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-lockhart-has-died-at-100/1024283/4 "2025-10-25T20:13:40Z")
I used to watch _Lassie_ reruns on Nickelodeon in the late 80s. I’m glad she got to live to be 100. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-lockhart-has-died-at-100/1024283/5 "2025-10-25T20:16:19Z")
Goodbye, Spacemom. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-lockhart-has-died-at-100/1024283/6 "2025-10-25T20:29:37Z")
She was also the mother to an “Aztec Princess” on General Hospital for awhile. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-lockhart-has-died-at-100/1024283/7 "2025-10-25T20:50:25Z")
As Dr Smith might say, “Oh, the pain, the pain.” Classy lady. 100 years is a good run, and I hope hers was better than most. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-lockhart-has-died-at-100/1024283/8 "2025-10-25T21:10:46Z")
She was also a brief (2 episodes, 1957 & 1958) romantic interest, Dr. Phyllis Thackery, of the _Knight Without Armor_, Paladin. He invited her to come to San Francisco with him, but she was committed to her doctoring in the old West. > **["Have Gun - Will Travel" No Visitors (TV Episode 1957) ⭐ 7.9 | Western](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0597553/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_accord_1_cdt_epp_sm_1)** > > 26m | Approved > **["Have Gun - Will Travel" The Return of Dr. Thackeray (TV Episode 1958) ⭐ 8.2...](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0597653/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_accord_1_cdt_epp_sm_1)** > > 26m | Approved ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-lockhart-has-died-at-100/1024283/9 "2025-10-25T21:24:38Z")
RIP Dr Robinson. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-lockhart-has-died-at-100/1024283/10 "2025-10-25T21:39:20Z")
She also appeared in the Reginald Owen 1938 version of _A Christmas Carol_, as Belinda, one of Bob Cratchit’s daughters. Her parents, Gene and Kathleen Lockhart, played her movie parents. I remember her first from _Lassie._ RIP ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-lockhart-has-died-at-100/1024283/11 "2025-10-25T21:40:38Z")
I remember June in the cheesy aluminum foil space suits. Somehow she still looked nice. _Here’s to You Mrs. Robinson Jesus loves you more than you will know Woah, woah, woah_ 🎶 RIP ---
**Author:** ![Ancient\_Nerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@Ancient\_Nerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ancient_Nerd)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-lockhart-has-died-at-100/1024283/12 "2025-10-25T22:05:39Z")
After watching Lassie, in prime time, my first career goal was to be a farmer. Driving a tractor looked like fun. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-lockhart-has-died-at-100/1024283/13 "2025-10-25T22:07:33Z")
I remember seeing her on Love American Style where she cupped both breasts to adjust her bra, and that was something you didn’t see on old tv, especially not Timmy’s mom. I thought it was kinda sexy 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-lockhart-has-died-at-100/1024283/14 "2025-10-25T22:29:01Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > the _Knight Without Armor_, Paladin. Knight without armour in a saaaavage land! The show he made after Paladin (I think it was _The Richard Boone Show_) shot an episode inside our church adjacent to the school when I was maybe 8 or 9. Excitement! And he was a nice man. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-lockhart-has-died-at-100/1024283/15 "2025-10-25T22:42:03Z")
There was a memorable episode of _Magnum P.I._ guest starring June Lockhart and Jose Ferrer in the present and Anne Lockhart and Miguel Ferrer as the younger selves of the same characters. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-lockhart-has-died-at-100/1024283/16 "2025-10-26T01:56:08Z")
The alien healing device has finally taken its toll. RIP June. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-lockhart-has-died-at-100/1024283/17 "2025-10-27T21:04:04Z")
She also played the titular **She-Wolf of London** (1946), a virtually forgotten werewolf movie made by Universal. I’ll spoiler this: She never actually changes into a wolf-woman, a la Larry Talbot. It’s all in her mind as people try to convince her she is transforming. A bit like the original Curt Siodmak script for **The Wolfman** had it all in Talbot’s mind, too. But audiences WANT to see the transformation. So The Wolfman is a prized cultural touchstone and The She Wolf is a footnote, just like **Curucu - Beast of the Amazon**. [/spoiler] > **[Secrets of the Wolfman](https://srichardwilkcom.wordpress.com/secrets-of-the-wolfman/)** > >   Lon Chaney Jr. As Larry Talbot, the Wolf Man As a Boomer, I grew up in the cultural fallout of the 1940s — the cartoons I watched, many of the movies I saw on TV, much of the fiction I… ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-lockhart-has-died-at-100/1024283/18 "2025-10-28T21:25:13Z")
She was the vet on _Petticoat Junction_, too. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-lockhart-has-died-at-100/1024283/19 "2025-10-29T13:45:20Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > The alien healing device has finally taken its toll. I understood that reference! I had occasion to look up June Lockhart about a year ago, and was surprised and pleased to find that she was still with us at the age of 99. While I was never a great fan of _Lost in Space_, she brought a certain classiness to it that I admired. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![Ancient\_Nerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@Ancient\_Nerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ancient_Nerd)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-lockhart-has-died-at-100/1024283/20 "2025-11-07T01:32:34Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > While I was never a great fan of _Lost in Space_, she brought a certain classiness to it that I admired. RIP. Lassie was the true TV classic.