Julia Lockwood
{{Short description|British actress (1941–2019)}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2019}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Julia Lockwood
| image = JLockwood.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = Lockwood in London, 1991
| birth_name = Margaret Julia Leon
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1941|8|23}}
| birth_place = Ringwood, Hampshire, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2019|3|24|1941|8|23}}
| death_place = Taunton, Somerset, England
| occupation = Actress
| yearsactive = 1947–1977
| spouse = {{marriage |Ernest Clark |1972 |1994 |end=d.}}
|children = 4
| parents = Margaret Lockwood
Rupert Leon
}}
Julia Lockwood (born Margaret Julia Leon; 23 August 1941 – 24 March 2019) was a British actress. Daughter of Margaret Lockwood, her career began as a child actress at the age of 4 and spanned 30 years in film, television and the theatre.
Early life
She was born in Ringwood, England on 23 August 1941.{{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/1535 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113193614/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/1535 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-01-13 |title=Julia Lockwood |publisher=BFI |access-date=2016-05-14}} Her mother, Margaret Lockwood, was one of Britain's most popular film stars of the 1930s and 1940s. Her father, Rupert Leon, was a commodities clerk who was serving in the British Army.{{cite web |url=https://www.silversirens.co.uk/actors-actresses/julia-lockwood/ |title=Julia Lockwood- British actress (1941–) |website=Silver Sirens |date=23 August 1941 |access-date=2019-04-08}} During the war years, she lived with her maternal grandmother in Ringwood, but after her parents divorced in 1949, she moved to London to live with her mother in Roehampton, London.{{cite web |url=https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-margaret-lockwood-1916-1990-english-film-actress-at-her-roehampton-38508569.html |title=Stock Photo – MARGARET LOCKWOOD (1916–1990) English film actress at her Roehampton home in 1942 with daughter Julia|last=Limited |first=Alamy |website=Alamy |access-date=2019-04-09}}
Lockwood attended the Arts Educational Schools, London from the age of 5.
Career
Lockwood's first appearance as a film actor was in the 1947 film Hungry Hill, alongside her mother; she was only four years old when filming began.{{citation |title=Hungry Hill (1947) – IMDb |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039479/fullcredits |access-date=2019-04-09}} She began to gain leading roles in the late 1950s, often in coming-of-age films such as Please Turn Over. She screen-tested for Hollywood with Columbia Pictures.
Her theatrical career began at the age of 12, when she was cast in the lead role in Alice in Wonderland at the Q Theatre in south-west London.{{cite web |url=https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-julia-lockwood-is-busy-rehearsing-the-part-of-alice-in-wonderland-20401501.html |title=Stock Photo – Julia Lockwood is busy rehearsing the part of Alice in Wonderland at the Kew Theatre for a season of matinees. This is her stage debut. Peter Butterworth will be the Mad |last=Limited |first=Alamy |website=Alamy |access-date=2019-04-09}} She went on to star in numerous West End shows into the 1970s. However, it is in the play Peter Pan that she is perhaps most remembered.
“My obsession with Peter Pan began when I was eight years old. My mother, Margaret Lockwood was invited to play "The Immortal Boy" (as we called him) at the Scala theatre in 1949. I used to sit in the wings transfixed, longing to be up on the stage with her and the lost boys, flying through the air and fighting the pirates.”{{cite book |title=Peter Pan on Stage and Screen |year=2011 |isbn=978-0786447787 |pages=257–271 |last1=Hanson |first1=Bruce K. |publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers }}She first played the role of Wendy opposite her mother in 1957, and then reprised the role the following year with Sarah Churchill (daughter of Winston Churchill and Clementine, Lady Churchill) in the title role. One performance was even visited by the Churchill family.{{cite web |url=https://www.diomedia.com/stock-photo-prime-minister-sir-winston-churchill-1874---1965-image17797113.html |title=STOCK IMAGE - Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill 1874 - 1965, by www.DIOMEDIA.com |website=Diomedia |access-date=2019-04-09}} In 1959, Julia finally achieved her dream of playing Peter; she would go on to play the lead role a further three times, in 1960, 1963 and 1966. She is one of only three actors to play both Wendy and Peter, and she is the only actor to have played Wendy opposite her own mother in the lead role.
Julia Lockwood's television career began at the age of 12, when she was cast in the lead role of the children's television film Heidi and the follow-up TV series Heidi Grows Up. She again featured alongside her mother in the 1957 series The Royalty, set in an exclusive London hotel.{{citation |title=The Royalty |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0423727/ |access-date=2019-04-09}} Both Lockwoods also appeared in the BBC's sequel series of 1965, The Flying Swan. During the 1950s and 1960s Julia was a regular feature of the small screen, appearing in over a dozen different television series. She is perhaps best remembered in the mid-1960s BBC soap opera Compact, set in the offices of a glossy women's magazine. Lockwood played the role of Anthea Keane, appearing in over 70 episodes.{{citation |title=Compact |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163440/ |access-date=2019-04-09}} In 1971 she appeared in the BBC comedy series Birds on the Wing (with Richard Briers and Anne Rogers).
She was in the series Brothers in Law (with Richard Briers) in the 1970s.
Lockwood appeared on the front cover of Tatler magazine in February 1965.{{cite web |url=https://www.rexfeatures.com/preview/printable/9831085001 |title=Editorial Photos, Celebrity, News, & Sports Images {{!}} Rex |website=www.rexfeatures.com |access-date=2019-04-09}}
She was one of five judges of the Miss England beauty pageant in 1965, alongside comedian Des O'Connor, actress Fenella Fielding, Patrick Wymark, and disc jockey Pete Murray. {{cite web |url=https://www.britishpathe.com/video/manchester-beauty-is-miss-england/query/julia+Lockwood |title=Manchester Beauty Is Miss England |last=Pathé |first=British |website=www.britishpathe.com |access-date=2019-04-15}}
In 1971, Lockwood released a 7" single on the Columbia label. The A-side was titled "He's and She's", the B-side "Edward, Alexander & Joe".{{cite web |url=https://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=614459 |title=Julia Lockwood He's And She's UK 7" vinyl single (7 inch record) (614459) |website=eil.com |access-date=2019-04-16}}
She worked as a drama teacher during the early 1990s at the Arts Educational Schools in Chiswick, London.
Personal life and death
In 1972, she married Ernest Clark, a British actor, best known for playing Geoffrey Loftus in Doctor in the House and its TV sequels. She retired from acting in 1977 after the birth of her third child. She and her husband had three children.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516986/ |title=Julia Lockwood |website=IMDb |access-date=2016-05-14}} She also had a son from a previous relationship.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/tvandradioblog/2019/apr/05/julia-lockwood-obituary |title=Julia Lockwood obituary |last=Hayward |first=Anthony |date=2019-04-05 |work=The Guardian |access-date=2019-04-09 |issn=0261-3077}} Following Clark's death in 1994, Lockwood moved to Spain, but returned to the UK in 2007 and lived in Ilminster until her death.
Lockwood's last public appearance was in July 2015, at the unveiling of the blue plaque on her mother's house in Kingston upon Thames.{{cite web |url=https://www.silversirens.co.uk/actors-actresses/julia-lockwood/ |title=Julia Lockwood {{!}} British actress (1941–) |website=Silver Sirens |date=23 August 1941 |access-date=2019-04-09}}
She died on 24 March 2019 after a short illness, surrounded by her children.
Filmography
- Hungry Hill (1947) – Fanny's Daughter (uncredited)
- The White Unicorn (1947) – Norey
- The Flying Eye (1955) – Angela
- My Teenage Daughter (1956) – Poppet Carr
- The Solitary Child (1958) – Maggie
- Please Turn Over (1959) – Jo Halliday
- No Kidding (1960) – Fenella / 'Vanilla'
Theatre credits
Television credits
Radio credits
| class="wikitable"
!Year !Production !On !Type !Episodes !Role !Ref |
| 1963
|FIVE-FIFTEEN |BBC Home Service |magazine |1 |herself |
| 1970
|Be My Guest |BBC Radio 2 |talk radio |1 |herself |
| 1971
|BBC Radio 4 |serial |24 |Sally |
| 1974
|Husband of the Year |BBC Radio 2 |game show |1 |herself (with her husband Ernest Clark) |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0516986|name=Julia Lockwood}}
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Category:English stage actresses
Category:English television actresses
Category:English film actresses
Category:People from Ringwood, Hampshire
Category:Actors educated at the Arts Educational Schools