Sondra Locke (1944-2018) was an Academy Award-nominated actress and frequent co-star of Clint Eastwood. Sondra Locke (1944 - 2018) was an Academy Award-nominated actress and frequent co-star of Clint Eastwood. [210][v] The agreement with Warner Bros., Locke said, was "a happy ending. The legendary directors death this week brings, Why Margot Kidder Was the Definitive Lois Lane, The late actresss fierce, funny reporter made, Scene Stealer: The True Lies of Elisabeth Finch, Part 1, The Johnny DeppAmber Heard Defamation Trial: The Makings of a Remarkable Moment in American Celebrity. This has been the best day in a long, long time," she told reporters on court house steps. [179] "I never knew I could love somebody so much, and feel so peaceful about it at the same time," Locke said he told her. Jacobs, Julia. "[235] In a tribute to the late actress, author Sarah Weinman wrote: "Sondra Locke, like Barbara Loden, deserves to be known for her work, not for the famous man she was disastrously involved with. There was a problem getting your location. Authorities were notified of her death, but it was not made public until 13 December. [85] Locke felt overqualified for her role but did it as a favor to Davison,[69] who at the time was her unofficial paramour. The second lawsuit also ended in a settlement for Locke. [33] Majoring in drama,[43] she was a member of the Alpha Psi Omega honor society while at MTSU and appeared on stage in Life with Father and The Crucible. Nearly three decades later, Locke said she still got those photos in fan mail requesting her autograph. Are you sure that you want to delete this photo? National Center for Family & Marriage Research. According to the Associated Press, Locke died on November 3 at her Los Angeles home of cardiac arrest stemming from bone and breast cancer. In 1986, Locke made her feature directorial debut with Ratboy, a parable about a youth who is part rat and part human, produced by Eastwood's company Malpaso. Sondra Locke was born May 28, 1944 as Sandra Louise Smith, in Shelbyville, Tennessee, a quiet little town about 60 miles southeast of Nashville. Actress. Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. Sondra Locke, the Oscar-nominated actress who starred in several movies with Clint Eastwooda romantic partner-turned-litigious opponenthas died. Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. [127] The female comrades Locke credited with loyalty and support were those she had known pre-Eastwood: art director Elayne Barbara Ceder, whom she met on The Second Coming of Suzanne, and realtor Denise Fraker, wife of A Reflection of Fear director William A. Vanity Fair may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. She was nominated for her screen debut in "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" (1968), based on. [57], In July 1967, Locke competed with 590 other Southern actresses and dozens of New York hopefuls for the part of Mick Kelly in a big-screen adaptation of Carson McCullers' novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter opposite Alan Arkin. Liz Smith. Locke and Hopkins appeared as a couple on the game show, Locke explained in her autobiography: "Before I had met Clint my gynecologist had suggested and fitted for me an, Although the existence of Eastwood's offspring by Jacelyn Reeves was reported in tabloids such as, Eastwood's passive-aggressive gestures toward Locke included inviting Jane Brolina woman he was having an affair withto join Locke and himself on their annual ski trip to Sun Valley. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of Sondra Locke (195334615)? In the mid-1960s, she dated her supervisor at WSM-TV's PR department, Brad Crandall (19201973). The exact year of this breakup is not known with certainty. "Sondra Locke: A match for the macho Clint Eastwood". [172] In November 1990, the parties reached a private settlement wherein Eastwood set up a $1.5 million multiyear film development/directing pact for Locke at Warner Bros. in exchange for dropping the suit. She continued steadily working from that point, but her careerand lifechanged forever when she was cast alongside Eastwood in the 1976 Western The Outlaw Josey Wales. Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. "[190] On April 10, 1989, Malpaso employees changed the locks on the family residence, moved Locke's possessions into storage, and posted security guards at the front gate per Eastwood's order. "[128], After 13 years away from acting, Locke returned to the screen in 1999 with cameo roles in the straight-to-video films The Prophet's Game with Dennis Hopper and Clean and Narrow with Wings Hauser. Jeanne Miller. The couples most delightful collaboration was on Bronco Billy (1980), a comedy starring Locke as a woman who falls in with a travelling circus after being double-crossed by her fiance. The actor Sondra Locke, who has died aged 74 after suffering from cancer, was closely associated with the film star and director Clint Eastwood: they made six films together and had a 13-year relationship, which ended acrimoniously. Her 1997 memoir was titled The Good, the Bad and the Very Ugly, riffing on one of Eastwood's most popular film roles. You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. In retrospect, she gathered "either he changed from white to black, or I had been living with somebody I didn't even know. Culture Actress Sondra Locke died on Nov. 3, but news of her death surfaced Thursday evening. [225] Built in 1925, the home's interior was redesigned to look like Locke's old house on Stradella Road. Vernon Scott. [180][s] "I'd feel sorry for any child that had me for a mother," she previously told columnist Dick Kleiner in 1969. She was born Sandra Louise Smith in 1944 in Tennessee and took her stepfather's last name to come up with her stage name Sondra Locke. He was willing me to go away. [248] Locke attended one of those performances in 2004 at the Tiffany Theater in West Hollywood. "[207], Locke brought a separate action against Warner Bros. for allegedly conspiring with Eastwood to sabotage her directorial career. [113] She was awarded the West Hollywood property (valued at $2.2 million), $450,000 cash and unspecified monthly support payments as well. 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[31] Locke's parents separated before her birth. "[43], Commercial ups and downs, missed roles, TV work. [7] Following graduation in 1962, Locke enrolled at Middle Tennessee State University (then Middle Tennessee State College) in Murfreesboro on a full scholarship. "[33] She had a maternal half-brother, Donald (born April 26, 1946) from Bayne's subsequent brief marriage to William B. She was born Sandra in Shelbyville, Tennessee, to Pauline Bayne, a factory worker, and Raymond Smith, a soldier. "[206] He accused Locke of using her cancer to gain the jury's sympathy: "She plays the victim very well. "Hollywood stars to help Shelbyville native's film". "[124][l] Ratboy had limited distribution in the United States, where it was a critical and financial flop, but was well received in Europe, with French newspaper Le Parisien calling it the highlight of the Deauville Film Festival. [122] Eastwood then directed Locke in a 1985 Amazing Stories episode entitled "Vanessa in the Garden". [148] Locke's subsequent relationship with a doctor young enough to be her son added to her notoriety. "I think it meant just as much to her. The Reeves children are not included in the count, for instance, at. "Sondra Locke continues to battle ex-beau Clint Eastwood". 0 cemeteries found in Westwood, Los Angeles County, California, USA. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. Try again later. Locke directed two more films after Impulse: *Death in Small Doses (1995) and Trading Favors (1997), both of which were little-seen. Besides "The Outlaw Josey Wales," "The Gauntlet," and "Every Which Way But Loose", she went on to appear in other films such as "Bronco Billy" (1980), "Any Which Way You Can" (1980), and "Sudden Impact" (1983). [214], A lifelong nonsmoker (save for a few film roles),[215] Locke practiced Transcendental Meditation[216] and worked out with weights, though she hated running. [86][162][163][164][q] For a while in the early 1970s, she shared a liaison with married actor David Soul after they played siblings in an episode of Cannon. She was nominated for a best-supporting-actress Oscar for her performance, an auspicious welcome for the Hollywood newcomer. [132] She came out of retirement once more in 2016, shooting Alan Rudolph's indie Ray Meets Helen with Keith Carradine. Well, it isn't. Locke was an accomplished actress, making her debut in the 1968 drama The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter alongside Alan Arkin. Over time Suzanne has developed a cult following,[33][69] while Reflection is cited as an early example of media portrayals of transgender people. Actress Sondra Locke, who was Clint Eastwood 's girlfriend for more than 13 years, has died. [246] "[She] lied so much during her brief but colorful career that when she lost her battle with cancer at age 74, I wondered if it was a publicity stunt," Reed wrote in an essay for Observer. [100] Locke was shooting Impulse (1990) at the time of the lockout. For years, Sondra worked in lock-step with Clint and, to hear her tell it, she helped him with his projects. In 1945, Locke briefly took the surname of her then-stepfather, Elkins, before her mother changed it again in 1948. [137][138] Locke also dated a sculptor (she did not name him) prior to marrying Anderson. She claimed to have been born several years later than 1944, and her true age remained a secret throughout her career. [241][242], Numerous outlets faced pushback over their chosen headlines for Locke's obituary. "The Actress Couldn't Resist". Try again later. She made a late return to the screen last year, in a title role in Alan Rudolphs Ray Meets Helen. I only stood to lose professionally.. You need a Find a Grave account to continue. [41] She also asked Judge Dana Senit Henry to bar Eastwood from the Bel-Air house "because I know him to have a terrible temper and he has frequently been abusive to me. [172][177][178] Eastwood's wife Maggie Johnson lived on a colossal estate in Pebble Beach, where Eastwood rarely stayed,[33] and he and Johnson were understood to have had an open marriage from the start. [100] Locke contended that the money WB pretended they were paying her came from Eastwood's pocket and was laundered through the operating budget of Unforgiven (1992). [33], Her next role was as Melisse in Cover Me Babe (1970), originally titled Run Shadow Run,[78] opposite Robert Forster. Elkins. Learn more about managing a memorial . Resend Activation Email, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. GREAT NEWS! She was nominated for her screen debut in "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" (1968), based. In 1997, Locke's autobiography The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly: A Hollywood Journey was published by William Morrow and Company. For memorials with more than one photo, additional photos will appear here or on the photos tab. If you were in Clint Eastwood movies, you were in the Clint Eastwood movie business, she explained. 2:09. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. She was born in Oklahoma City on April 8, 1940 to Warren and Voicey Marie Matherly. Sandra Louise Anderson (ne Smith; May 28, 1944 November 3, 2018), professionally known as Sondra Locke, was an American actress and director. She later sued Clint Eastwood for both palimony and fraud, but settled both cases. Brad Schmitt. [19] They remained married for 51 years until her death in 2018. [33], Locke was a cheerleader and class valedictorian in junior high. [101][102][103] She followed it up with a lead role alongside Eastwood in the popular action film The Gauntlet (1977), the duo replacing Steve McQueen and Barbra Streisand, who bowed out from the production owing to a reported clash of egos. Eastwood was secretly involved with another woman and had two children with her. On the 91st Academy Awards telecast, broadcast nearly four months after Locke died, she was omitted from the In Memoriam segment. [247], In 1971, fifth-graders at Eastside Elementary in Locke's hometown of Shelbyville, Tennessee, were left star-struck when Locke made a visit and held pretend "auditions" in the class to show them what it was like in Hollywood. Eight years before they met, she had already received Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for her accomplished debut as Mick, a southern teenager who befriends a deaf-mute man (Alan Arkin) in the 1968 adaptation of Carson McCullers novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Her legal name was changed four times during her first 24 years of life: from Sandra Smith to Sandra Elkins, to Sandra Locke, to Sondra Locke, to Sondra Anderson. You are only allowed to leave one flower per day for any given memorial. [33], During her marriage, Locke was rumored to have been linked amorously to co-stars Robert Fields (Cover Me Babe), Bruce Davison (Willard), Paul Sand (The Second Coming of Suzanne) and Bo Hopkins (Gondola), as well as producer Hawk Koch, real estate agent Herb Goldfarb, and John F. Kennedy's nephew Robert Shriver. In magazine interviews, Locke and Anderson would variously claim to have met when they were 10. Failed to report flower. The suit was eventually settled in 1996 for an undisclosed sum. [123] When asked why she'd been absent from her longtime beau's recent star vehicles, Locke replied simply, "I wasn't right for the roles. Sandra Louise Anderson ( ne Smith; May 28, 1944 - November 3, 2018), professionally known as Sondra Locke, was an American actress and director. You might just as well have a direct confrontation with a wall. LOS ANGELES Actress and director Sondra Locke, a Tennessee native nominated for an Academy Award for her first film role in 1968's "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" and who went on to co . Terry Semel, then the C.E.O. Its 1980 sequel Any Which Way You Can for which Locke earned a six-figure salary plus a share of the profits[100] was nearly as successful. [33] She called it a "real, supportive, and equal relationship. Josh Young. Try again later. He didnt make me famous. She also acted in a handful of projects, making her final turn in the 2017 romantic comedy Ray Meets Helen. "[195], Locke battled Eastwood in court for 19 months; she developed breast cancer during proceedings and said the treatments sapped her will to fight. [100] Locke thought Eastwood was acting out "because he wasn't number one at the box office anymore, or because he was facing his mortality"[100] (Eastwood was 58 at the time). [68][168][127][220][221] Unfazed by their 17-year age difference and that Locke was only three years younger than his mother[222][223] they soon went public with the romance, dining at paparazzi hotspot Spago on one of their early dates in November 1990. His accent wasnt so theatrical, and he was way funnier than Baz Luhrmann gives him credit for. "Eastwood is target of another Locke Lawsuit". Your account has been locked for 30 minutes due to too many failed sign in attempts. [208] As had happened with the previous lawsuit, this ended in an out-of-court settlement, in May 1999. [97] Locke said she chose the role for its exposure,[98] following a run of unremarkable credits. Steve Ryfle. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. [41] From 1958, she attended Shelbyville Central High School, where she was again valedictorian and voted "Duchess of Studiousness" by classmates. Ann W. O'Neill. Locke claimed the reason that she and Eastwood were at odds was because she wanted to branch out into the industry and build a career beyond his filmsincluding by directing her own movies. You are nearing the transfer limit for memorials managed by Find a Grave. Locke's death received no television coverage except for a 15-second spot on ABC World News Tonight. Try again later. They both enrolled at Middle Tennessee State University in 1962, but she left after a year and worked in Nashville as a TV station assistant, while acting with a community theatre group. This translated into a period of great productivity while they were together. Im sorry he is who he is, she said just before her book came out. She was 74. Locke then filed a lawsuit. [33] She also modeled for The Tennessean fashion page, acted in commercials for Rich-Schwartz ladies apparel and Southerland Gel mattresses, among others, and gained further stage experience in productions for Circle Players Inc.[42][57] In 1966, the 22-year-old appeared in a UPI wire photo that showed her cavorting in new fallen snow. [111] The home invasion film Death Game (1977), though released after they became an item, was actually shot in 1974. She made it as part of a $150,000 three-picture deal with 20th Century Fox, and was compensated for the other two which never came to fruition. One April day while she was filming Impulse, she returned to their shared home to find that Eastwood had changed the locks and boxed up her clothes, the Post notes. [100] They eventually settled at 846 Stradella Road in Bel-Air,[41] which Eastwood still owned at the time of Locke's death. "[96], In 1975, Locke was cast in the western film The Outlaw Josey Wales as the love interest of Clint Eastwood's eponymous character. How did it come to this? [203] One juror disclosed that the panel sided with Locke by a 10-to-2 vote (nine votes are needed for a verdict) and were only debating the amount. "[32] She never knew her biological father,[48] and did not attend the funerals of her mother (deceased 1997)[49] or stepfather (deceased 2007),[50] nor did she have anything to do with her brother, sister-in-law and three nieces.

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