Chapel Hill Funeral Home & Memorial Gardens. Sandra Louise Anderson ( ne Smith; May 28, 1944 - November 3, 2018), professionally known as Sondra Locke, was an American actress and director. She played Laura Lee, who joins Josey (Eastwood) on his quest to avenge his familys destruction during the civil war. [21][22][23][24] Despite this, she wasn't considered "date material" by the more socially prominent boys in her class. [33] Locke later defensively declared: "Clint is not good at direct communication. She was 74 years old. After news broke that Locke had died of cancer last month, The Hollywood Reporterran an obituary on the actress with the headline Actress Sondra Locke, Embittered Ex of Clint Eastwood, Dies at 74. . Which is your favorite movie produced or executive produced by Albert S. Ruddy? "[131] Locke was nonetheless grateful to have a platform at all, stating: "It was a miracle that a major publisher took it. Fraker. This has been the best day in a long, long time," she told reporters on court house steps. "[111] Childfree by choice unusual for a person of her generation[237] Locke was among the first celebrities to publicly discuss her abortion experiences. "Love was not something to search out actively; it finds you, I believed. [100] Locke's friendships with those women gradually faded as their husbands ghosted her. "The Actress Couldn't Resist". [204] Before any court decision could be made, Locke settled the case with Eastwood for an undisclosed amount of money. If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. Weve updated the security on the site. She was nominated for her screen debut in "The Heart Is a . "[41], For his part, Eastwood waved the lawsuit off as a "dime-novel plot,"[204] continuing, "it's all about money about getting something for nothing. Sondra Locke died on Nov. 3, 2018, of cardiac arrest as a result of both breast and bone cancer. Sondra Locke (1944 - 2018) was an Academy Award-nominated actress and frequent co-star of Clint Eastwood. In the meantime, she accepted some television offers, co-starring with an all-female ensemble cast in Friendships, Secrets and Lies (1979) and portraying big band era vocalist Rosemary Clooney in Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story (1982). A general view of atmosphere of actor/director Clint Eastwood's home/house on February 14, 2021 in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, USA. Are you sure that you want to delete this memorial? [183], Eastwood and Locke were still cohabiting when, in the latter half of the 1980s, he secretly fathered another woman's two children[184][185] a fact that did not come to light for almost 20 years. Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. Learn more about managing a memorial . Actress. Use the links under See more to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. Her mother married Alfred Locke, a carpenter, when she was four. SONDRA Locke, who has died of cancer aged 74, was the long-time partner and regular co-star of Clint Eastwood in such movies as the classic 1976 western The Outlaw Josey Wales and the 1978. Ad Choices. Locke announced plans to develop and star in a movie about Marie Antoinette, but the project fell apart. "Sondra Locke continues to battle ex-beau Clint Eastwood". 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. Verify and try again. Failed to delete memorial. The Reeves children are not included in the count, for instance, at. "Shelbyville gets its close-up". [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. [229] The Associated Press said "it is not clear why it took nearly six weeks to come to light. Sondra Locke (1944 - 2018) was an Academy Award-nominated actress and frequent co-star of Clint Eastwood. [43] One student, Cameron Watson, was inspired by Locke and is now an actor/director. [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. The suit was eventually settled in 1996 for an undisclosed sum. I have to admit I read that and I was like, Go mom, laughs Clea Newman Soderlund, speaking about her fathers posthumous memoir, Ezra Millers Messiah Delusions: Inside. The second lawsuit also ended in a settlement for Locke. Anderson is a central presence in Locke's autobiography, but she doesn't elaborate on her reasons for marrying him beyond the following passage: However conventional or unconventional our marriage might turn out to be honestly did not concern me that much. [180][s] "I'd feel sorry for any child that had me for a mother," she previously told columnist Dick Kleiner in 1969. "Locke Feels Vindicated After Lawsuit". [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. Locke also later proved herself an idiosyncratic director with the curious fantasy Ratboy (1986), in which she starred. (December 14, 2018). Co-stars such as Cicely Tyson, Louie Anderson, Sally Kellerman, Stacy Keach and Ted Neeley all active on social media were equally silent. [79][80] It was announced that she would play the lead in Lovemakers a film adaptation of Robert Nathan's novel The Color of Evening but no movie resulted. The enormous eyes set in a petite face gave her the perpetually childlike look of one of Margaret Keanes big-eyed child paintings. [168][r] After wrapping the film in December 1975, the couple shuttled between Eastwood's houses in Sherman Oaks and Carmel, as well as rented homes in San Francisco and Tiburon. "Sandra Locke bitter, shocked about split with Eastwood". She won the part after a nationwide search to find a suitable newcomer. [225] Built in 1925, the home's interior was redesigned to look like Locke's old house on Stradella Road. Just as he was about to look away into the distant desert, he caught sight of me, she wrote in her 1997 autobiography The Good, the Bad and the Very Ugly. Actress Sondra Locke, who was best known for making six movies with Clint Eastwood, has died at the age of 74. [126] In a subsequent interview with Siskel, Locke said she wasn't eager to act again. 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. "The minute she heard the first reference to her or to her family, she threw up her arms: 'What the hell is this?'" [130], Locke's death was kept secret until December 13, when Radar Online broke the news the day before Eastwood's latest blockbuster The Mule (2018) opened in theaters nationwide, citing the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. 2:09. [121] The film premiered five months before her 40th birthday. [128] She filed a $70 million palimony suit on April 26,[100][168] charging Eastwood with breach of contract, emotional distress, forcible entry and possession of stolen goods. Sondra Locke, an Academy Award nominated actress, and a long-time lover of Clint Eastwood, has died at the age of 74 following a battle with breast and bone cancer, this after having undergone. "[190][219], Locke underwent a double mastectomy at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, followed by chemotherapy. [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. Please try again later. [119] The couple's final collaboration as performers was Sudden Impact (1983), the highest-grossing film in the Dirty Harry franchise,[120] in which Locke played an artist with her own code of vigilante justice. So she filed another suit, alleging that Eastwood defrauded her, and that the Warner Bros. deal she had been given was not real. [191] Forced abortions and compulsory sterilization were also cited, though Locke would later recategorize those operations as a "mutual decision". [33], According to a 1989 affidavit, the marriage was "tantamount to sister and brother" and they never consummated it. [218] She added that Eastwood never communicated with her after her diagnosis: "He doesn't care if I live or die. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. "[33] She had a maternal half-brother, Donald (born April 26, 1946) from Bayne's subsequent brief marriage to William B. In retrospect, she gathered "either he changed from white to black, or I had been living with somebody I didn't even know. She was 74. [100], During their 14 years as de facto husband and wife, Locke and Eastwood had lived in seven homes and acquired four, including a retreat in Sun Valley, Idaho, and the Rising River Ranch near Cassel. [148] Locke's subsequent relationship with a doctor young enough to be her son added to her notoriety. All rights reserved. [31] Locke's parents separated before her birth. "[33] Eastwood claimed Locke told him on multiple occasions that she never wanted to have children. [59] Dr. Walter Rowe Courtenay presided over the ceremony. "[95] Ron Harper, who worked with Locke on the short-lived 1974 show Planet of the Apes, was even more effusive: "After acting with her in a couple of scenes, there was something so feminine about her that I could picture myself easily falling for her She's one of those women who exudes femininity, and you just become so attracted to that. Clint Eastwood: The Director-King of Hollywood. Over time Suzanne has developed a cult following,[33][69] while Reflection is cited as an early example of media portrayals of transgender people. She was 74. However, their relationship ended acrimoniously, coloring both their legacies and entwining them in two ugly lawsuits. 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Try again later. She also portrayed the singer and actress, Rosemary Clooney in the CBS television movie "Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story" in 1982. Margaret Keanes big-eyed child paintings. Even though Locke played the leading female role, Locke's autobiography provides a convoluted recollection of the casting process for, Gordon Anderson went by the stage names 'C.B. This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. In the mid-1960s, she dated her supervisor at WSM-TV's PR department, Brad Crandall (19201973). Failed to remove flower. [86][87] She was then featured in William A. Fraker's underseen mystery A Reflection of Fear (1972), which required her to project the image of a character nearly half her age, and held the title role in The Second Coming of Suzanne (1974), winner of three gold medals at the Atlanta Film Festival. She also appeared in such television series as "Night Gallery," "Kung Fu," "Barnaby Jones," and "Cannon." [166], Locke referred to these intervals as "casually exploring for a romantic relationship," noting that she had not fallen in love with any of the men. [41] From 1958, she attended Shelbyville Central High School, where she was again valedictorian and voted "Duchess of Studiousness" by classmates. [234] In absence of any explanation, many surmised that Locke had to have requested the blackout in her final wishes, perhaps to keep her true age from being exposed. [235] News organization TheWrap whose editor, Sharon Waxman, reviewed Locke's memoir for The Washington Post in 1997 opined that her story "should stir resonance in this age of the #MeToo movement. "[43], Commercial ups and downs, missed roles, TV work. As sorry as people are going to be, it was far more devastating to me to find out who he really was.. [250] The movie was a "special gift" to Locke, according to Deborah Obenchain, another Eastside student who said she did not think Locke really understood her impact on the small town she once called home. Read Full Obituary Guest Book -. I was Clints girl. Are you sure that you want to remove this flower? "[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. In 1968, she made her film debut in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. 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. [91] The San Francisco-set drama was to be directed by Mal Karman and shot by cinematographer Robert Primes, who did camerawork for Gimme Shelter, but it was scrapped for lack of funds. [128] She reflected in 2012: "Clint has said so many bad things about me to the media since we split up, and he has so much more access and power to do that. Try again later. Actress. Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print. Cast Album of PAINT YOUR WAGON". cemeteries found in Westwood, Los Angeles County, California, USA will be saved to your photo volunteer list. [41] Peggy Garrity, Locke's former counsel, recalled the courtroom drama in her book In the Game: The Highs and Lows of a Trailblazing Trial Lawyer (2016). [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. Im sorry he is who he is, she said just before her book came out. . We will review the memorials and decide if they should be merged. This is a carousel with slides. [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). Please reset your password. You can always change this later in your Account settings. Sondra Locke, an actress who received an Oscar nomination for her first film and starred in a series of movies with Clint Eastwood, with whom she had a turbulent relationship, died on Nov. 3 at . Debbie Reynolds during her high-school years, in the late 1940s. That role was a curious fit for a woman whose appeal lay in her mix of the feisty and the delicate. [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. [32] In her autobiography, Locke noted that "although Momma would not admit it, I knew Mr. Smith never married my mother. I felt it was like social extortion of a kindblackmail or whatever you want to call it, he said. Her closest friends had been the wives of Eastwood's colleagues: Maria Shriver, Cynthia Sikes Yorkin and Lili Fini Zanuck, all 1011 years younger than Locke and married to film industry heavyweights Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bud Yorkin and Richard D. Zanuck respectively. [122] Eastwood then directed Locke in a 1985 Amazing Stories episode entitled "Vanessa in the Garden". cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. She passed away of cardiac arrest stemming from breast and bone cancer. She earned an Oscar nomination for her first film, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter . Sondra Locke (1944-2018) was an Academy Award-nominated actress and frequent co-star of Clint Eastwood. Canopee global > Blogs > Uncategorized > sondra locke funeral pictures. [o] In early 1969, as Locke was flooded with script offers after her Oscar nomination, she and Anderson left Tennessee and moved into a condo at The Andalusia in West Hollywood. In Eastwoods more rough-and-tumble outings she could only appear incongruous. [148][149][150][151] Locke, testifying under oath to a jury, characterized her husband as being "more like a sister to me" and explained, "it's funny the sort of cultural changes, but in those days males and females never lived together unless they were married. [111] The home invasion film Death Game (1977), though released after they became an item, was actually shot in 1974. This account has been disabled. People can say, He made her famous; he gave her movies. He didnt give me moviesI did a job, she said. Locke directed two more films after Impulse: *Death in Small Doses (1995) and Trading Favors (1997), both of which were little-seen. "[153] Anderson, according to the scant AP report, was unreachable,[153] and a representative for Locke ignored People's request for comment. [131] She had simultaneously been wooed by screenwriter Philip Kaufman but chose Eastwood over him. [155] She started as secretary to Tom Griscom in local sales for WSM Radio. Lloyd acted with Locke again in Gondola (1973), a racially themed, three-character teleplay co-starring Bo Hopkins, and commended the actress for "a beautiful performance perhaps her best ever. This relationship is not possible based on lifespan dates. We have set your language to [224] Cunneen moved in with her in the spring of 1991. Sondra Locke, the Oscar-nominated actress who starred in several movies with Clint Eastwood a romantic partner-turned-litigious opponenthas died. "It's a woman's role that comes along once in a lifetime," she said. Various dates were given by the press for Locke's birth. After-the-fact publicity claimed that 2,000 actresses tried out for the role. Terry Semel, then the C.E.O. [83] Shortly afterwards she passed on the lead in My Sweet Charlie (1970), which won an Emmy for its eventual star Patty Duke. 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. Locke went on to appear in such box office successes as Willard (1971), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), The Gauntlet (1977), Every Which Way but Loose (1978), Bronco Billy (1980), Any Which Way You Can (1980) and Sudden Impact (1983). Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. Albert S. Ruddy (born 1930) is a Canadian-American film and television producer. Siskel & Ebert gave the film "two thumbs up". [134], During her tenure at WSM, Locke participated in the annual United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) telethons. Alan Rudolph, Keith Carradine, Sondra Locke and Jennifer Tilly in Person at the Music Hall for RAY MEETS HELEN. Nearly three decades later, Locke said she still got those photos in fan mail requesting her autograph. Particularly with regard to the tubal ligation, I encouraged Locke to make her own decision after she had consulted with a physician about the appropriateness of and the necessity for that surgical procedure. To add a flower, click the Leave a Flower button. Locke starred as a bitter heiress who joins a traveling Wild West show in Bronco Billy (1980), her only film with Eastwood not to reach blockbuster status, though it still ranked among the annual box office top 25. [38] Self-described as introspective[39] and ambitious,[40] Locke started working part-time at age 16, drove her own car, and had a phone installed in her bedroom. Smith may have died before Locke learned of him. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, or jump to a slide with the slide dots. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. [1] For reasons never made clear, her death was not publicly announced, and was only confirmed by vital statistics six weeks after she died of cardiac arrest at the age of 74. 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. [89][k], In 1973, Locke was attached to star in Terminal Circle. [230][235], During the last third of her life, Locke maintained she was blacklisted from the film industry as a result of her acrimonious split from Eastwood;[69][128] his career went forward unscathed. Locke died on November 3, but her death has just been reported. [235] She was one of 11 female filmmakers in 1990, the year WB released her sophomore feature, Impulse. The pair began dating on the set, sparking a relationship that would last for 13 years and spawn five more movies, the last being Sudden Impact in 1983. "Clint Eastwood - Interview - Western Movie Star". English [73][74][j] Being the oldest nominee in the latter category, she concealed that distinction through retconning with aid from studio publicists. She worked regularly with Eastwood, who was her companion for 14 years despite their marriages to other people. [32][41] Locke testified that after she and Eastwood made their final joint appearance on January 6 at the American Cinema Awards, they spent exactly two nights together,[163] without intimate contact. "Locke Is Big With Eastwood". [127] She was also bumped from The Oprah Winfrey Show and, in her words, "shut out of most venues to promote the book, in particular the networks. Josh Young. "[33], Locke and actor/director Clint Eastwood entered a domestic partnership in October 1975. "[113], In 1978, Locke and Eastwood appeared with an orangutan named Clyde in that year's fourth highest-grossing film, Every Which Way but Loose. [33], Hoping to shed the plain image she accentuated in her screen debut, in January 1969 Locke posed for a semi-nude pictorial by photographer Frank Bez,[76] which was published in the December issue of Playboy. [2], Sandra Louise Smith was born on May 28, 1944,[a][b] the daughter of New York City native Raymond Smith, then serving in the military,[c] and Pauline Bayne, a pencil factory worker from Huntsville, Alabama, who was of mostly Scottish descent, with matrilineages in South Carolina extending back to the late 18th century. She was 74. She was nominated for her screen debut in "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" (1968), based. [w], In 2015, after a 25-year period of apparent remission,[228] Locke's cancer returned and metastasized to her bones. Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. In magazine interviews, Locke and Anderson would variously claim to have met when they were 10. "Career Off to Great Start, and Then". If you were in Clint Eastwood movies, you were in the Clint Eastwood movie business, she explained. In our own way we got to live out a little bit of our dreams by making the movie and meeting her. 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). [209] By then, Locke had fired Garrity and hired Neil Papiano to represent her. 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. [72] Locke's performance garnered her an Academy Award nomination, as well as a pair of Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress and Most Promising Newcomer Female. [33], Her next role was as Melisse in Cover Me Babe (1970), originally titled Run Shadow Run,[78] opposite Robert Forster. Learn more about merges. Your account has been locked for 30 minutes due to too many failed sign in attempts. sondra locke funeral pictures. "[33] Eastwood's lawyers sent a warning letter to the publisher, and although no slander charges arose, Entertainment Tonight canceled a scheduled interview with Locke. ", In June 1999, Garrity sued Locke to get paid for persuading the appellate court to reinstate. And I didnt.. When the former husband and wife square off in a Virginia courtroom this week, it will mark the culmination of a divorce that has been without comparison in the annals of modern American celebrity. SONDRA LOCKE OBITUARY. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. The sex symbol confessed that "girls thought I was a jokea happy buffoon," before he met his wife. You have chosen this person to be their own family member. Sandra went to the local high school, where she met Gordon. "[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. Stanley Eichelbaum. [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.
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