Actress and director Sondra Locke passed away of cancer on November 3rd at the age of 74, but her death was not announced until this evening some 24 hours before Clint Eastwood's new movie The Mule is due to open.
It is possible that the announcement is a coincidence. Although nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in her film debut in the adaptation of Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Locke is best remembered for her long association with Eastwood appearing with him in six films most notably The Outlaw Josey Wales, Every Which Way But Loose and Sudden Impact.
Locke and Eastwood had a very public falling out at the end of the 1980's. By this time Locke was trying her hand at directing, but she would spend much of the 1990's entangled in several legal battles with Eastwood who she alleged was sabotaging her directorial ambitions. They would settle out of court.
Locke largely dropped out of the public eye in the 2000s until returning to the silver screen last year co-starring with Keith Carradine in Ray Meets Helen.
I remember seeing Locke in a segment of a 1972 episode of Rod Serling's Night Gallery called "Feast of Blood" co-starring Norman Lloyd, an actor 30 years her senior. Who would have thought in 2018 that Lloyd would have outlive her? R.I.P.
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