Gary Lockwood

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Gary Lockwood (* 21st February 1937 in Van Nuys , California , as John Gary Yusolfsky ) is an American actor .

Life

Gary Lockwood began his career as a stuntman and light double for Anthony Perkins before he made his first appearance in an extra role as a gang member in the western The Man with the Golden Guns (Original: Warlock ) in 1959. Lockwood very soon got offers for permanent roles in television series: The first was the character of Eric Jason in Follow the Sun , a Hawaii-based ABC series from 1961 to 1962 . In it he played a research fellow for the main characters, two writers for an adventure magazine in Honolulu . In this role, Lockwood was rarely seen, because the series mainly revolved around the two main characters, and it was discontinued after a season. At the same time, Lockwood played his first minor film roles, for example in Elia Kazan's drama Fever in the Blood alongside Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty .

The second permanent role that Gary Lockwood received was the title role in the NBC series The Lieutenant from 1963 to 1964. He played the role of Second Lieutenant William Rice. The series about the United States Marine Corps in peacetime was produced by the later Star Trek inventor Gene Roddenberry and by the later solo for ONCEL producer Norman Felton . Lockwood's co-star was Robert Vaughn , who played Rice's line manager, Captain Rambridge. This series was also discontinued after a season. Lockwood was hired as a well-known series star for the second pilot film Where No Man Has Gone Before by Raumschiff Enterprise , where he played Lt. Commander Gary Mitchell. This pilot was then aired as the third installment in the series, Tip of the Iceberg . Lockwood is known to a broad audience primarily through the role of the astronaut Dr. Frank Poole in Stanley Kubrick's classic 2001: A Space Odyssey from 1968 Present. In the same year he had another leading film role alongside Elke Sommer in On a Friday in Las Vegas

From 1959 to the present day, Gary Lockwood has appeared in over two dozen films and has had nearly 80 guest appearances on television, including the series Smoking Colts , Cobra, Take Over , MacGyver , Hard But Heartbeat , Murder Is Her Hobby, and the series One Colt just in case . He also appeared under the pseudonym Gary Yurosek . He is also active as a theater actor. In the television series Love, American Style , he played alongside Stefanie Powers , with whom he was married from 1966 to 1972 in his first marriage. He was married a second time to Hope Harrsen . In his third marriage he was in a relationship with Denise DuBarry from 1982 to 1988.

Filmography (selection)

• 1961: Fever in the Blood (Splendor in the Grass)
• 1961: Song of the Rebel (Wild in the Country)
• 1962: The Magic Sword (The Magic Sword)
• 1963: Whether blond - whether brown (It Happened at the World's Fair)
• 1966: Starship Enterprise : Tip of the Iceberg 01x03 ( Star Trek: Where No Man Has Gone Before , TV series)
• 1968: On a Friday in Las Vegas (Las Vegas, 500 million)
• 1968: The Five Bird Free (Firecreek)
• 1968: 2001 : A Space Odyssey (2001: A Space Odyssey)
• 1969: The photo model (Model Shop)
• 1970: Battle of the Gowns (RPM)
• 1971: Killer satellites ( Earth II , TV movie)
• 1972: Stand Up and Be Counted
• 1974: FBI sucht Karpis ( The FBI Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One , TV movie)
• 1976: Project Kill - A man wants out (Project: Kill)
• 1977: Georgia Road - The Unbeatable (Bad Georgia Road)
• 1978: The Incredible Journey of Dr. Meg Laurel (TV movie)
• 1978: The Ghost of Flight 401 ( The Ghost of Flight 401 , TV movie)
• 1980: Reaching for the Stars ( Top of the Hill , TV movie)
• 1983: Emergency Room (TV movie)
• 1983: 1994 - Only the strong survive (Survival Zone)
• 1987: The Top Cops (The Wild Pair)
• 1990: Terror in Paradise
• 1995: The Pact with the Demon (Night of the Scarecrow)
• 2004: Missing Sock (short film)

Web links

• Gary Lockwood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Gary Lockwood on the Star Trek wiki Memory Alpha