Sondra Locke passes away at 74

Actress, director, and film producer Sondra Locke passed away on November 3, 2018. She is best known for appearing in a string of films with Clint Eastwood during the 1970s and 1980s, as well as her later court battles with Eastwood and Warner Bros.

Locke was romantically involved with Eastwood for 14 years, and after he abruptly ended their relationship by literally moving her and her belongings out of his house, he covertly sabotaged her career by using his influence at Warner Bros. Locke sued both Eastwood and the studio for breach of contract and fraud in cases that were ultimately settled out of court. But the damage had been done.

Due to the after-effects of Eastwood's interference, and Locke's on-again, off-again battles with cancer, between the years of 1983 (her last film with Eastwood) and 2017, the once-busy actress only appeared in six more projects (two of those being television series episodes), and her directing career never truly got off the ground.

Sondra Locke was born in May 28, 1944 in Alabama. She made her first film appearance in the 1968 film "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter", in which she played a 14-year-old and landed the part by lying about her age. Aside from her screen appearances with Eastwood in "The Gauntlet" and "Sudden Impact," this first film is what she was most famous for.