Loved for her iconic roles as the stereotypical TV mother, June Lockhart has a nine-decade career that extends well beyond her role as Ruth Martin on “Lassie.” Alongside Jon Provost as Timmy, she played Timmy’s loving mother from 1958 to 1964, developing a close relationship with the collie of the same name.
Lockhart enthralled audiences as Dr. Maureen Robinson, the determined matriarch in “Lost in Space,” from 1965 to 1968. Throughout her long career, she has appeared in numerous TV shows, such as “Bewitched,” “Petticoat Junction,” “Magnum, P.I.,” “Step by Step,” and “Beverly Hills, 90210.”
Her love of the universe transcends the stage and screen. A staunch advocate for NASA since the 1970s, Lockhart received the Exceptional Public Achievement Medal in 2013 for her efforts to promote the agency.
She was married to John F. Maloney in the first place, and the two of them had two children: June Elizabeth and Anne Lockhart, who was also an actress, and John Lindsay in the second.
