FROM PEOPLE: June Lockhart has died. She was 100.
The actress died on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 9:20 p.m. local time in Santa Monica, Calif., PEOPLE can confirm.
Lockhart’s cause of death was natural causes. Her daughter, June Elizabeth, and her granddaughter, Christianna, were by her side when she died.
The actress’s career spanned film and television. Her films included A Christmas Carol, Meet Me in St. Louis and She-Wolf of London. On TV, she had starring roles on Lassie and Lost in Space. She was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
She made her stage debut at the tender age of eight in a Metropolitan Opera production of Peter Ibbetson. Her first film role came in 1938’s A Christmas Carol, where she portrayed the daughter of Bob Cratchit, played by her father, alongside her mother as his wife.
“I thought my parents were wonderful as the Cratchits, and it was just great fun to see how a film was made,” Lockhart remembered to the Ames Tribune in 2014. “I loved the Victorian costumes.”
“We used to perform it every Christmas at home for our dinner guests,” she said. “So I had already appeared in it, with my parents, in our living room for many years prior to doing it for MGM.” She said her family particularly loved that her first-ever words in a movie were “I know, I know — sausages,” explaining, “It’s become a family joke, and we all shriek with laughter when we watch it now.”
BREAKING: June Lockhart, the beloved actress best known for her iconic roles in “Lassie” and “Lost in Space,” has died. She was 100. pic.twitter.com/EkVMR5vy9H
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 25, 2025
June Lockhart, a popular actress of the 1950s and ’60s known for her roles in “Lost In Space,” “Lassie” and “Meet Me in St. Louis,” died of natural causes on Oct. 23 in Santa Monica, Calif. She was 100. https://t.co/gwkQkszWjh pic.twitter.com/MXqAUvG17Y
— Variety (@Variety) October 25, 2025
June Lockhart, who became a mother figure for a generation of television viewers whether at home in “Lassie” or up in the stratosphere in “Lost In Space,” has died. She was 100.
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— ABC News (@ABC) October 25, 2025
June Lockhart, Lassie and Lost in Space Actress Who Was One of the Last Surviving Stars from Hollywood’s Golden Age, Dies at 100 https://t.co/HAW8b8dP6x
— People (@people) October 25, 2025
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