JULIA LOCKWOOD

(23 August 1941 - 24 March 2019)

The British actress Julia Lockwood, who has died aged 77 from pneumonia, was the daughter of the stage and film actress Margaret Lockwood. Having seen her mother playing Peter Pan, Julia couldn’t wait to follow her in the same role. She played Wendy when her mother was Peter in 1957 but eventually got to play the title role four times. She made her debut on film at the age of four (with her mother) in Hungry Hill and then in The White Unicorn, again with her mother. Julia was Heidi on television and also appeared in The Royalty, Don’t Tell Father, Compact, Birds on the Wing, etc. Between stage work Julia made films including My Teenage Daughter with Anna Neagle, The Solitary Child with Barbara Shelley, Please Turn Over with Ted Ray and No Kidding with Leslie Phillips. When she married the actor Ernest Clark in 1972, she retired to raise her three children. She also had a son from a previous relationship.

 

MICHAEL DARVELL