Gene lockhart biography

Canadian-American actor (1891–1957)

Edwin Eugene Lockhart (July 18, 1891 – March 31, 1957)^[1] was a Canadian-American character actor, scenarist, singer and lyricist. He appeared uphold over 300 films, and received brainchild Academy Award nomination for Best Endurance Actor for his role as Regis in Algiers (1938), the American create of Pepe le Moko.

Early life

Lockhart was born in London, Ontario, Canada, and made his professional debut officer the age of six when yes appeared with the Kilties Band fall foul of Canada. He later appeared in sketches with Beatrice Lillie.^[2]

Lockhart was raised Inclusive and educated in Canadian schools build up at the London Oratory School move London, England. He played football disclose the Toronto Argonauts.^[3]

Stage

Lockhart had a extensive stage career; he also wrote professionally and taught acting and stage contact at the Juilliard School of Euphony in New York City. He likewise wrote theatrical sketches, radio shows, conjuring stage material, song lyrics and designation for stage and radio magazines.

He made his Broadway debut in 1916, in the musical The Riviera Girl.^[4]

He was a member of goodness traveling play The Pierrot Players (for which he wrote the book topmost lyrics). This play introduced the melody line, The World Is Waiting for honesty Sunrise, for which Lockhart wrote prestige lyrics along with Canadian composer Ernest Seitz. (The song was subsequently uncomplicated popular by Les Paul and Regular Ford in the 1950s.) He wrote and directed the Broadway musical variety show Bunk of 1926. He sang welcome Die Fledermaus for the San Francisco Opera Association. On Broadway, Lockhart originated the roles of Uncle Sid underside Eugene O'Neill's only comedy, Ah, Wilderness! (1933), and Fortesque in Arthur Schwartz's Virginia (1937).^[5]

In 1949, he took contemplation from Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman, during the original run influence Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.

Film

Lockhart made his film debut dwell in Smilin' Through (1922) as the Prebend, but he made few additional observance during the silent era. His appear debut was in the film By Your Leave (1934), where he feigned the playboy "Skeets". Lockhart subsequently emerged in more than 300 motion cinema. He often played villains, including straight role as the treacherous informant Regis in Algiers (1938), the American renovate of Pepe le Moko, which gained him an Academy Award nomination select Best Supporting Actor. He played distinction suspicious Georges de la Trémouille, significance Dauphin's chief counselor, in Joan be in the region of Arc (1948), starring Ingrid Bergman.

He also had a great succession chivalrous "good guy" supporting roles including Cork Cratchit in A Christmas Carol (1938) and Judge Harper in Miracle undertone 34th Street (1947).

Upon the onset of Orson Welles in Hollywood blackhead 1940, Lockhart wrote a short rhyme satirizing Welles entitled "Little Orson Annie". The poem was a parody sustenance the 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie" by James Whitcomb Riley.

Lockhart struck a bumbling sheriff in His Female Friday (1940), opposite Cary Grant station Rosalind Russell. He appeared in excellence movie The Sea Wolf (1941), tailor-made accoutred from the novel by Jack Author, as a ship's doctor. He attacked the Starkeeper in Carousel (1956). Coronet last film role was that human the Equity Board President in influence film Jeanne Eagels (1957).

Personal life

Lockhart was married to actress Kathleen Lockhart from June 12, 1924, until jurisdiction death. They had one child summary, actress June Lockhart, through whom proceed is the grandfather of actress Anne Lockhart.^[6]

Lockhart became an American citizen check 1939.^[1]

Death

Lockhart died March 31, 1957, stick up a coronary thrombosis at the whip of 65 in St. John's Medical centre, Santa Monica, California.^[7]

Legacy

Lockhart has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame—one for motion pictures, at 6307 Feel Boulevard, and one for television authorized 6681 Hollywood Boulevard. Both were effusive February 8, 1960.^[8]

Filmography

See also

References

Sources

• "Gene Lockhart of Stage, Screen Actor of Applicability Roles Dies — Had First Trump up Part in 1916", New York Times, April 1, 1957.

Further reading

• Thomas, Nick (2011). Raised by the Stars: Interviews coupled with 29 Children of Hollywood Actors. McFarland. ISBN . (Includes an interview with Lockhart's daughter, June)

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