Gene Lockhart
Eugene "Gene" Lockhart (born July 18, 1891 in London , Ontario , Canada , † March 31, 1957 in Santa Monica , California , United States ) was an American film and theater actor , as well as theater director and poet of Canadian origin.
Life
Gene Lockhart was born in London, Canada in 1891 to John Coates Lockhart and Ellen Mary Delany-Lockhart, who had Scottish roots. Through his father, a trained singer, Lockhart came into contact with acting and singing at an early age. When he was six, Lockhart was a member of a Canadian band in Canada, the United States and Great Britain. Lockhart therefore attended various schools in Canada and later in London , Great Britain . At the age of 15 he was already writing his own skits. He was also a short-term football player for the Toronto Argonauts as a teenager . Lockhart was trained at the Juilliard School in New York City before making his Broadway debut in The Riviera Girl in September 1917 . Lockhart also directed a play entitled The Wonderful Visit for the first time in February 1924 . Lockhart's better-known plays included Uncle Tom's Cabin , which premiered in May 1933, and the drama Death of a Salesman, premiered in February 1949 .
Lockhart, who also made his debut as a film actor in the 1922 theatrical adaptation of Smilin 'Through , then appeared in over 140 feature films and most recently in television series. His sustained most successful film was the film drama Algiers , produced in 1938 , for which Lockhart was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 1939 . The 1941 Sea Wolf is also one of the more famous films by the actor. He was often seen as a strange doctor, politician or civil servant, whereby his characters were often characterized by their ineptitude and stupidity. He took on a sinister role in Fritz Lang's propaganda thriller Also Die Henker (1943), in which he worked with the National Socialists in the role of a Czech beer brewer and betrayed his country's resistance movement.
He also founded a small dynasty of actors. So he married the British actress Kathleen Lockhart in 1924 . Their daughter, June Lockhart , born just a year later , also became an actress, as did his granddaughter Anne Lockhart (* 1953). He himself died of thrombosis in 1957, at the age of 65, and was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City , California . Today two stars on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood bear his name.
Filmography (selection)
- 1922: Smilin 'Through
- 1935: Crime and Punishment (Crime and Punishment)
- 1936: The Gorgeous Hussy
- 1937: Music in Fists (Something to Sing About)
- 1938: Of Human Hearts
- 1938: Algiers
- 1938: A Christmas Carol
- 1938: Sweethearts
- 1938: Blondie
- 1939: The love and life of the telephone maker A. Bell (The Story of Alexander Graham Bell)
- 1939: Geronimo, the scourge of the prairie (Geronimo)
- 1940: His Girl Friday (His Girl Friday)
- 1940: The great Edison (Edison, the Man)
- 1940: Dr. Kildare: The Homecoming (Dr. Kildare Goes Home)
- 1940: Abe Lincoln in Illinois
- 1941: The Last Bandit (Billy the Kid)
- 1941: The Devil and Daniel Webster (The Devil and Daniel Webster)
- 1941: This is John Doe (Meet John Doe)
- 1941: With one foot in heaven (One Foot in Heaven)
- 1941: His last command (They Died with Their Boots On)
- 1941: The Sea Wolf (The Sea Wolf)
- 1943: For ever and a day (Forever and a Day) (co-writer)
- 1943: Executioners die too (Hangmen Also Die!)
- 1943: Ambassador to Moscow (Mission to Moscow)
- 1943: Bloody Snow (Northern Pursuit)
- 1943: Love Song of the Desert (The Desert Song)
- 1944: The Road to Happiness (Going My Way)
- 1945: Deadly Sin (Leave Her to Heaven)
- 1945: The House on 92nd Street (The House on 92nd Street)
- 1946: An elegant crook (A Scandal in Paris)
- 1947: Cynthia
- 1947: The Miracle of Manhattan (Miracle on 34th Street)
- 1947: A World at Your Feet (The Foxes of Harrow)
- 1948: Johanna von Orleans (Joan of Arc)
- 1949: Madame Bovary and her lovers (Madame Bovary)
- 1950: From cats and male cats (The Big Hangover)
- 1950: Laugh and Cry with Me (Riding High)
- 1956 carousel (Carousel)
- 1956: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit)
Award
- 1939: Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Algiers
Web links
- Gene Lockhart in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gene Lockhart in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Lockhart genes in the database of Find a Grave (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lockhart, Gene |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lockhart, Eugene |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film and stage actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1891 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London , Ontario, Canada |
DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1957 |
Place of death | Santa Monica , California, United States |