The Hollywood Walk of Fame has five stars bearing the name Lockhart. Two are for June Lockhart, an award winning actress who carries on the family tradition set by her father Gene Lockhart and her mother Kathleen. June has two daughters, Anne and June and three grandchildren.

June, a third generation performer, made her debut at the age of eight at the Metropolitan Opera House in "Peter Ibbetson." At twelve she appeared as Belinda Cratchet in the film version of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" which also starred her parents. Now a classic, this film is shown annually on TV at Christmas time.

While still attending Westlake School for Girls, June appeared in significant roles in such famous films as "All This and Heaven Too" with Bette Davis and Charles Boyer, "Sergeant York" with Gary Cooper, and "Adam Had Four Sons" with Ingrid Bergman. Following graduation, she signed a contract with MGM and continued making such films as "The White Cliffs of Dover," "Meet Me in St. Louis," "The Yearling," and "Son of Lassie."

Leaving MGM June appeared in her first Broadway play, F. Hugh Herbert's "For Love or Money." For her performance she won the Donaldson Award, the Theater World Award, was named Woman of the Year in Drama by the Associated Press and received a Tony Award for Best Debut Performance.

Since then, June has starred in many comedy and dramatic TV series, movies for television and specials. "Lassie," in which she starred for six years, won her an Emmy nomination. It was followed by three years in "Lost In Space" and two in "Petticoat Junction."

Since 1984 June has appeared intermittently as Maria, Felicia's grandmother on "General Hospital." Seen throughout the world, these series have made her an internationally known star. June has also done several U.S. National Theatrical Tours.

Among the many reasons for June's lasting popularity are her enthusiasm, her sense of humor, and her professionalism. Articulate, literate, a concerned citizen, she has an intense interest in the events of our time. She is an avid student of medicine and political journalism. For fifteen years, June was a director of the First Federal Bank of California. She chairs the bank's Executive Committee on Community Reinvestment Act. She is also a speaker for the Federal Reserve Bank.

June is warm and friendly, often appearing on interview and talk shows. She is a member of the Radio and Television News Directors Association and the National Association of Radio Talk Show Hosts. She is often an observer at the White House Press Briefings, and is the Ambassador for the California State Parks System

June has ridden a camel in New Delhi, an elephant in the circus, and cuddled gorillas, orangutans and tigers. She is a "zoo freak." She has owned and driven a 1923 Seagrave fire engine, flown a blimp, is an antique car buff, a member of the Teamsters Union, has flown in a hot air balloon, driven the Army's largest tank - the M60A1 weighing in at 53 tons at Fort Knox, and flew in the Berlin Airlift to entertain U. S. Troops in Germany. Recently, she sat at the throttle of the Canadian VIARAIL with two diesel engines on the night trip through the Rockies and went dog sledding in a snow storm in Canada. She has traveled the Amazon River and the Arctic Circle. June flew in "Lost in Space," one of the most difficult stunts in film.

She is actively involved in International Hearing Dog, Inc. a program in which dogs are rescued from Animal Shelters and trained to be the ears for the deaf. June is active in raising funds needed for maintaining the horses in the Santa Monica Police Department's Mounted Division.

Thomas Edison introduced her parents; her ancestor is John Gibson Lockhart, author, publisher, son-in-law and biographer of Sir Walter Scott. Her father composed "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise" and she was in Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston when the song was played to awaken the astronauts on a Columbia shuttle flight. June is often a guest of NASA in Houston and she has attended two shuttle launches. She was at JPL to watch the recent landings on Mars. She opened a new exhibit for the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History in 2004. Each year she is invited to the White House Press Annual Dinner and to the White House Correspondent's Dinner and is very pleased to attend both.