June Lockhart

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June Lockhart (born June 25, 1925 in New York City) is an American television and film actress best known for her roles as the mothers on Lassie and Lost in Space.

She also appeared as a regular in the soap opera General Hospital in several different years, and as Dr. Janet Craig on Petticoat Junction, replacing Bea Benaderet, who died of cancer during the show's run. She also provided the voice of Martha Day, the lead character in the Hanna-Barbara animated series These are the days. Lockhart was the only actress or actor to have starred in three hit series during the 1960s.

She was the only child of two actors: Canadian-born Gene Lockhart, who came to fame on Broadway in 1933 in Ah, Wilderness!, and UK-born Kathleen Arthur Lockheart. They appeared together in 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 (a category that no longer exists) for her role on Broadway in For Love or Money.

June Lockhart married Dr. John Lindsay (a.k.a. John F. Maloney) at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City in 1951. They had two daughters, June Elizabeth and Anne Kathleen (b. 1953), before eventually divorcing in 1959. June Lockhart has never remarried.

Both daughters have taken their mother's maiden name for their stage names. One daughter, Junie Lockhart, also billed as Lizbeth Lockhart, had only a brief acting career, but Anne Lockhart has appeared in numerous films and television programs, most prominently Battlestar Galactica. She also has done television commercials as well as considerable work as a sound/adr artist. Anne appeared with her mother, June, in four episodes of Lassie. Anne Lockhart married Adam C. Taylor (1966-1994), the son of actor Buck Taylor and grandson of the actor Dub Taylor (1907-1994), and had two children, Carly Taylor and Zane Taylor, before Adam was killed in a car accident in 1994.

During a taping of The Tonight Show on March 26, 2007, Jay Leno commented that June had contributed to his weekly segment, 'headlines'. He quipped, "I can't call her June," "She's Timmy's mom."