Kathleen Lockhart

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Kathleen Lockhart (born August 9, 1894 in Southsea near Portsmouth , England , as Kathleen Arthur , † February 18, 1978 in Los Angeles , California ) was a British actress and wife of Gene Lockhart .

life and career

Born on the south coast of England, Kathleen Arthur performed as an actress and musician at an early age. After starting her acting career in England, she emigrated to the United States in 1924. In the same year she married her Canadian husband, the actor Gene Lockhart . Gene and Kathleen Lockhart were to found a small dynasty of actors: both daughter June Lockhart (* 1925) and granddaughter Anne Lockhart (* 1953) became actresses. After several roles on Broadway , the character actress first appeared in a film in 1933. By 1959 Kathleen played in 39 films, mostly as a supporting actress in ladylike and friendly mother roles. At the side of her husband she appeared in several films, including Mr. and Mrs. Cratchit in the Dickens film version A Christmas Carol (her daughter June also made her film debut in this film as the Cratchit daughter).

Lockhart had her only television appearance in 1953 on the television show Robert Montgomery presents by Robert Montgomery . One of her last roles was played by Lockhart in 1954 as the mother of James Stewart in Anthony Mann's biopic The Glenn Miller Story . After the death of her husband Gene in 1957, she increasingly withdrew from the acting business. In 1978 she died in California at the age of 83 and was buried next to her husband in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her film work .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kathleen Lockhart at Allmovie
  2. ↑ Kathleen Lockhart in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved December 15, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Lockhart, Kathleen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arthur, Kathleen (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Southsea near Portsmouth , England , United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1978
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States