Sondra Locke, actor in Clint Eastwood films, dies at 74 [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Actor starred in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, before role in Eastwood’s The Outlaw Josey Wales
Sondra Locke, the American actor who was nominated for an Oscar for her first film before co-starring in six films with her one-time partner, Clint Eastwood, has died.
The actor, who was 74, died at her home in Los Angeles after a cardiac arrest stemming from breast and bone cancer, according to a death certificate obtained by Associated Press. She died on 3 November and authorities were promptly notified at the time. It is not clear why it took nearly six weeks to be reported.
Locke was best known for the six films she made with Eastwood whom she dated for 13 years. Their professional association began with the western The Outlaw Josey Wales in 1976 and ended with the Dirty Harry movie, Sudden Impact, in 1983.
Born Sandra Louise Smith, she grew up in Tennessee, where she worked at a radio station and appeared in a handful of plays before winning a nationwide talent search in 1967 to be cast opposite leading man Alan Arkin in the movie adaptation of Carson McCullers’ 1940 novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/dec/14/sondra-locke-actor-and-former-partner-of-clint-eastwood-dies-at-74
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