Sondra Locke

Sondra Locke is a Actrice and American Réalisatrice. She was born the May 28th 1947, with Shelbyville in the State of the Tennessee. She in particular worked with Clint Eastwood , of which she was the partner, during a few years.

First years

Originating in Tennessee, Sondra Locke was very quickly attracted by the cinema, to which it devoted a good part of its leisures, as a spectator.

She did not finish her studies when she presents herself to a casting, for the turning of an adaptation of a novel of Carson McCullers: the heart is a solitary hunter . After a first selection, it meets the realizer Robert Ellis Miller, then is definitively retained, at the time of a last stage, to interpret the role of Mick Kelly. It is named for the Oscar of the best actress in a supporting role. She will admit, thereafter, to be herself let gray by the success of film and Hollywood superficialities, whereas, reasonably, it had been preferable to study and make the training of the trade.

The career

With Los Angeles, it should await 1970 so that No5el Black entrusts a role in Cover to him Me Babe . The film, badly accommodated by criticism, is a commercial failure. In 1971, it plays in Willard , under the direction of Daniel Mann, a psychological drama inspired of the novel Ratman' S Notebooks , of Stephen Gilbert; the film is a success, which enables him to connect the turning of three other films, before its meeting professional and personal, with Clint Eastwood . In 1976, it is with the poster of Josey Wales, outlaw (The Outlaw Josey Wales) . Consequently, it will appear on several occasions in the productions of Eastwood (from of which the Return of the inspector Harry ), but also those of various realizers, while collaborating in projects of television such Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney story of Jackie Cooper, an evocation of a famous singer of country-music) aunt of the movie actor and television Georges Clooney.

In 1985, it passes behind the camera and carries out Ratboy (left the following year), assisted by the production company of Eastwood, Malpaso. This parabola on the difference is well accommodated by criticism. It renews the experiment in 1990 with double game , which does not have same success. After the separation of with Eastwood and serious health issues, the Années 1990 are more chaotic. It carried out and produced Loving Annabelle , film coécrit with Katherine Brooks and appeared in 2006.

Catalog of films

the original title is mentioned between brackets if it differs from the French title .

Actress

1968 : the heart is a solitary hunter ( The Heart has Lonely Hunter ) Robert Ellis Miller (role of Mick)
1970: Cover Me Babe of No5el Black (role of Melissa)
1971: Willard of Daniel Mann (role of Joan)
1973: has off Reflection Fear of William A. Fraker (role of Marguerite)
1974: The Second Coming off Suzanne of Michael Barry (role of Suzanne)
1976: Josey Wales outlaw ( The Outlaw Josey Wales ) of Clint Eastwood (role of Laura Lee)
1977: the Showdown ( The Gauntlet ) of Clint Eastwood (role of Gus Mally)
1977: The Shadow off Chikara of Earl Smith (role of Drucilla Wilcox)
1977: Death Range of Peter S. Traynor (role of Agatha Jackson)
1978: Soft, hard and nutcase ( Every Which Way Drank Loose ) James Fargo (role of Lynn Halsey-Taylor)
1980: Bronco Billy of Clint Eastwood (role of Antoinette Lilly)
1980: That will knock ( Any Which Way You Can ) of Buddy Van Horn
1983: the Return of the inspector Harry ( Sudden Impact ) of Clint Eastwood (role of Jennifer Spencer)
1986: Ratboy of Sondra Locke (role of Nikki Morrison)
1999: The Prophet' S Range of David Worth (role of Adele Highsmith)
1999: Clean and Narrow of William Katt (role of Betsy Brand)
2005: Loving Annabelle of Katherine Brooks

Director

1986 : Ratboy
1990 : double game ( Pulse )
1995: a death with small amounts ( Death in Small Amounts ), telefilm
1997: Do has Me Favor

Television

1973 : The Gondola
1979 : Friendships, Secret and Dregs
1979: Bruise off the Unexpected
1982: Turned pink: The Rosemary Clooney Story
1995 : a death with small amounts ( Death in Small Amounts )

Rewards

Sondra Locke was quoted for the Oscar of the best actress in a supporting role in the heart is a solitary hunter .

Bibliographical references

Passek Jean-Wolf, Dictionary of the Cinema , Larousse, Paris, 1995,
Bernard Rapp & Jean-Claude Lamy, Dictionary of the Films , Larousse, Paris, 1995,

External bond

Card “Sondra Locke” on Internet Movie Database

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