JULIA LOCKWOOD

Written by Michael Darvell
 

(23 August 1941 - 24 March 2019)

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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

 
Michael Darvell

Michael Darvell trained as a librarian at Watford and in Surrey before joining Ealing Libraries where he became Music Librarian for the borough. He edited Masthead, the magazine of the University of North London School of Librarianship, The Surrealist, the staff magazine of Surrey County Library, and contributed to the Assistant Librarian and London Librarian professional journals. A freelance film reviewer since 1970, he has written for Film, Films Illustrated, Film Review, Movie Maker and Radio Times, as well as editing Montage, the London film societies magazine, for ten years. A change of career saw him joining What’s On in London as Features Editor and he eventually stepped into the shoes of the late F. Maurice Speed (founding father of Film Review annual) as the magazine’s Editor. From 2007 to 2015, he was co-editor of the Film Review annual with Mansel Stimpson. As well as writing about films, Michael has reviewed theatre for The Stage newspaper, and has written about music theatre and cabaret for the Classical Source and Musical Theatre Review websites. He is also a former restaurant critic for the ViewLondon website. Michael has been a member of the London Film Critics’ Circle since 2005.

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