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Anne Lockhart

Anne Lockhart may refer to:*Anne Lockhart *Anne Lockhart of Tarbrax, daughter of Sir James Lockhart of Lee*Anne Lockhart, Countess of Aberdeen , daughter of the above...

Anne Lockhart (born September 6, 1953) is an American

United States

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 actress.

Life and career

Lockhart was born Anne Kathleen Maloney in New York City

New York City

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, the daughter of actress June Lockhart

June Lockhart

June Lockhart is an American actress, primarily in 1950s and 1960s television, but with memorable performances on stage and in film too. She is remembered as the mother in two TV series, Lassie and Lost in Space. She also portrayed Dr...

 and Dr. John F. Maloney. She is also the granddaughter of actors Gene

Gene Lockhart

Eugene "Gene" Lockhart was a Canadian character actor, singer, and playwright. He also wrote the lyrics to a number of popular songs.-Early life:...

 and Kathleen Lockhart

Kathleen Lockhart

Kathleen Lockhart was an English-born stage actress.She was born Kathleen Arthur in Southsea, Hampshire in England. An actress and musician, Kathleen got her start on the stage in England and then immigrated to the United States in 1924, upon her marriage to Canadian-born actor Gene Lockhart...

. Anne's legal name was Anne Kathleen Maloney until her marriage, at which time she took the surname of her husband, Adam Carlyle Taylor. Professionally, she has chosen to use her mother's maiden name and has been known as Anne Lockhart throughout her long career.

Raised in California

California

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, she entered her mother's profession and began acting. She starred in the movie A Dog's Tale

A Dog's Tale

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and has also had a number of notable guest appearances in network television shows such as Three for the Road

Three for the Road (TV series)

Three for the Road was a 12-episode CBS drama television series about a recently widowed father and his two sons who in an attempt to assuage their grief, sell their house, procure a recreational vehicle, called the "Zebec", and travel around the United States...

, Airwolf

Airwolf

Airwolf is an American television series that ran from 1984 until 1987. The program centers on a high-tech military helicopter, code named Airwolf, and its crew as they undertake various missions, many involving espionage, with a Cold War theme....

, B. J. and the Bear, Knight Rider, and Quantum Leap. She is best known in her role as Lieutenant Sheba

Lieutenant Sheba

Lieutenant Sheba, portrayed by Anne Lockhart, is a fictional character and regular cast member of the 1978-1979 ABC television series Battlestar Galactica....

 on the series Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)

Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction television series, created by Glen A. Larson. It starred Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict and ran for one season in 1978–79. After cancellation, its story was continued in 1980 as Galactica 1980 with Adama, Lieutenant Boomer and...

.

In 1977, she starred in the film Joyride

Joyride (1977 film)

Joyride is a 1977 film directed by Joseph Ruben. The screenplay was written by Ruben and Peter Rainer.-Taglines:"It was fun... while it lasted!""They're Burning Up The Blacktop!""Did You Ever Want to Just Shove It and Leave It All Behind?"-Plot:...

opposite other children of famous actors Robert Carradine

Robert Carradine

Robert Reed Carradine is an American actor. The youngest of the Carradine family of actors, he made his first appearances on television western series such as Bonanza and his older brother David's Kung Fu. Carradine's first film role was in the 1972 film The Cowboys opposite Roscoe Lee Browne and...

, Melanie Griffith

Melanie Griffith

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 and Desi Arnaz, Jr.

Desi Arnaz, Jr.

Desi Arnaz, Jr. , is an American actor and musician and the son of entertainers Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.-Early life:...

Anne also starred in the critically acclaimed film Lisa, Bright and Dark in 1973. Anne was John Carpenter

John Carpenter

John Howard Carpenter is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor, composer, and occasional actor. Although Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres in his four-decade career, his name is most commonly associated with horror and science fiction.- Early life :Carpenter was born...

's first choice to play the role of main character Laurie Strode in Halloween

Halloween (1978 film)

Halloween is a 1978 American independent horror film directed, produced, and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut and the first installment in the Halloween franchise. The film is set in the fictional midwestern...

(1978). Other lesser known movies include a small voice-over role in the 1978 "death-sploitation" flick Beyond and Back

Beyond and Back

Beyond And Back is a 1978 documentary and "death-sploitation flick" released by Sunn Classic Pictures that deals with the subject of near death experiences.-Production notes:...

. Anne also played the young version of Eunice St. Clair in the 1986 horror film Troll

Troll (film)

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. The older version of Eunice St. Clair in the same movie was played by Anne's mother, June. She also played Lela Markeson, who was molecularly altered to appear as Buck Rogers' long-dead girlfriend, in the "I Dream of Jennifer" episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series)

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios. The series ran for two seasons between 1979–1981, and the feature-length pilot episode for the series was released as a theatrical film several months before the series aired....

.

In recent years, Lockhart has become a voice-over artist, a frequent guest star on episodic television as well as working in television commercials. She married Adam C. Taylor on December 24, 1986, the son of actor Buck Taylor

Buck Taylor

Walter Clarence "Buck" Taylor, III is an American actor and water color artist best known for his role as gunsmith-turned-deputy Newly O'Brien in 113 episodes during the last eight seasons of CBS's Gunsmoke television series . In recent years, he has painted the portrait of his friend and Gunsmoke...

 and grandson of actor Dub Taylor

Dub Taylor

Walter Clarence Taylor, Jr. , better known as Dub Taylor, was an American actor who worked extensively in Westerns, but also in comedy from the 1940s into the 1990s.-Early life:...

. She had two children, Carly & Zane. Her husband died June 4, 1994 in a motorcycle accident.

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