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Sandra Louise Anderson (née Smith; May 28, 1944 – November 3, 2018), professionally known as Sondra Locke, was an American actress and director.
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Sondra Locke was born May 28, 1944 as Sandra Louise Smith, probably in Madison, Alabama. She was the daughter of Raymond Smith, a military man stationed nearby, and Pauline Bayne. Smith departed the scene before Sondra's birth. In 1945, her mother wed William B. Elkins, and they had a son, Donald, in 1946. The short union ended in divorce. In 1948,...
Locke was a cheerleader in junior high and graduated valedictorian of her eighth grade class. At Shelbyville Central High School, the \\"classroom was the one place where I felt like I had a chance to prove myself and I continued to excel. I felt safe there and I liked it.\\" Her best friend was classmate Gordon Anderson, a fey young man, who shared ...
When Gordon attended Middle Tennessee State University (in Murfreesboro, about 30 miles from Nashville) in 1962, Sondra enrolled there, too. But after her freshman year, Sondra had a blowup with her mother, left home, and did not return to college. Instead, she worked in Nashville as a promotions assistant for WSM-TV, with occasional modeling and v...
If Gordon was unable to launch his own acting career, he had no such problems igniting Sondra's. He learned that Warner Bros. was holding a nationwide search for an actress in the screen adaptation of Carson McCullers' novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968). He helped Locke research the part of Mick, a teenage waif in a southern town who befrien...
Next, Locke moved to Los Angeles, with Gordon in tow. She hoped to parlay her Academy Award nomination into further movie roles. But the big-eyed, petite, wiry blonde found it difficult to win suitable parts, instead accepting lesser projects, notably Willard (1971), a film about marauding rats. Cover Me Babe (1970), A Reflection of Fear (1972) and...
\\"Josey Wales\\" was indeed a hit; Locke sparked a flurry of interest among male viewers as virtually nonspeaking eye candy. Yet she stopped pursuing film roles to assume wifely duties and acted exclusively in Eastwood-controlled projects, with one nondescript exception (The Shadow of Chikara (1977)). (Death Game (1977) was actually shot in 1974.) T...
Over the next few years, Locke had two abortions during her relationship with Eastwood. In 1979, she had her tubes tied. She and Eastwood settled into a $1.1 million, seven-bedroom 1931 Spanish-style Bel-Air mansion, which she renovated and decorated, and which she believed would be hers forever. She continued to spend platonic time with Gordon, wh...
In 1982, Locke worked apart from Eastwood in Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story (1982). (Rosemary Clooney personally asked Locke to star in the CBS biopic on the strength of her performance in \\"Bronco Billy.\\") She later made an appearance on Britain's Tales of the Unexpected (1979) serial. For the most part, however, she found herself sitting on t...
The relationship crashed on December 29, 1988 at their mountain retreat in Sun Valley, Idaho. After a screaming match, Eastwood suggested Locke return to Los Angeles without him. She scarcely saw Eastwood after that, and their mutual friends shunned her. As she admitted later, \\"In my head I guess I knew it was over, but in my heart Clint and I wer...
On April 26, 1989, Sondra filed a palimony lawsuit against her domestic partner of 14 years. Her brazenness in suing Eastwood shocked Tinseltown and titillated the public. Her action sought equal division of the property she and Eastwood had acquired during their relationship, including the Bel-Air home they had shared and the Crescent Heights (Wes...
Locke died on November 3, 2018 at age 74 from cardiac arrest stemming from breast and bone cancer, although it was not announced until December. The six-week delay raised a lot of eyebrows, since it came opening day of Eastwood's The Mule (2018). Locke's remains were cremated at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary and the ashe...
Learn about the life and career of Sondra Locke, an Oscar-nominated actress who starred in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968) and Willard (1971). Find out about her marriages, relationships, awards, trivia and more on IMDb.
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- November 3, 2018
Sondra Locke. Actress: Every Which Way But Loose. Sondra Locke was born May 28, 1944 as Sandra Louise Smith, in Shelbyville, Tennessee, a quiet little town about 60 miles southeast of Nashville. She was the daughter of Raymond Smith, a military man stationed at nearby Tullahoma, and Pauline Bayne.
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Dec 14, 2018 · Sondra Locke, the Oscar-nominated actress who starred in several movies with Clint Eastwood —a romantic partner-turned-litigious opponent—has died. She was 74. According to the Associated...
Sondra Locke (May 28, 1944 – November 3, 2018) was an American actress who was known for starring mostly in movies. She starred as Laura Lee in The Outlaw Josey Wales in 1976. The following year, she played Augustina Mally in The Gauntlet (1977). Locke was born in Shelbyville, Tennessee.
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Dec 14, 2018 · Sondra Locke, who starred in six movies with Clint Eastwood, passed away after a heart attack related to her cancer. She was an Oscar-nominated actress and a filmmaker who sued Eastwood for fraud.
Dec 13, 2018 · 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...
