Gene Lockhart

Personal Info

Birth date

1891-07-17 (134 Years)

Day of death

1957-03-31

Gender

Male

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

London, Ontario, Canada

Also known as

Eugene Lockhart

Eugene "Gene" Lockhart

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Edwin Eugene Lockhart (July 18, 1891 – March 31, 1957) was a Canadian-American character actor, singer, and playwright. He also wrote the lyrics to a number of popular songs. He became a United States citizen in 1939.

Born in London, Ontario, the son of John Coats Lockhart and Ellen Mary (née Delaney) Lockhart, he made his professional debut at the age of six when he appeared with the Kilties Band of Canada. He later appeared in sketches with Beatrice Lillie.

Lockhart is mostly remembered for his film work. He made his film debut in the 1922 version of Smilin' Through, as the Rector, but did not make his sound debut until 1934 in the film By Your Leave, where he played the playboy Skeets. Lockhart subsequently appeared in more than 300 motion pictures. He often played villains, including a role as the treacherous informant Regis in Algiers, the American remake of Pepe le Moko, which gained him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He also played the suspicious Georges de la Trémouille, the Dauphin's chief counselor, in the famous 1948 film Joan of Arc, starring Ingrid Bergman. He had a great succession of "good guy" supporting roles including Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol (1938) and the judge in Miracle on 34th Street (1947).

Filmography

Climax!

3.3

Overview:

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.

Robert Montgomery Presents

5.6

Overview:

Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.

The 20th Century Fox Hour

5.4

Overview:

The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.

Lights Out

5.3

Overview:

Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. In 1946, NBC Television brought Lights Out to TV in a series of four specials, broadcast live and produced by Fred Coe, who also contributed three of the scripts. NBC asked Cooper to write the script for the premiere, "First Person Singular", which is told entirely from the point of view of an unseen murderer who kills his obnoxious wife and winds up being executed. Variety gave this first episode a rave review ("undoubtedly one of the best dramatic shows yet seen on a television screen"), but Lights Out did not become a regular NBC-TV series until 1949.

Telephone Time

6.3

Overview:

Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John Nesbitt who hosted the first season. Frank C. Baxter hosted the 1957 and 1958 seasons. The program was directed by Arthur Hiller.

Joan of Arc

6.1

Overview:

In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.

Lux Video Theatre

6.3

Overview:

Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

Going My Way

6.7

Overview:

Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.

We Who Are Young

5.8

Overview:

A man violates company policy by getting married.

Tales of Tomorrow

6

Overview:

Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and broadcast live on ABC from 1951 to 1953. The series covered such stories as Frankenstein, starring Lon Chaney, Jr., 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea starring Thomas Mitchell as Captain Nemo, and many others featuring such performers as Boris Karloff, Brian Keith, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Bruce Cabot, Franchot Tone, Gene Lockhart, Walter Abel, Leslie Nielsen, and Paul Newman. The series had many similarities to the later Twilight Zone which also covered one of the same stories, "What You Need". In total it ran for eighty-five 30-minute episodes.

A Scandal in Paris

6.4

Overview:

A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

8.5

Overview:

In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office. Although the men object to her at first, she soon charms them all, especially the handsome young head of the company. Their romance gets sidetracked when she becomes involved in the Women's Suffrage movement.

Mission to Moscow

5.3

Overview:

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.

Bridal Suite

5.1

Overview:

A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.

The Strange Woman

6.1

Overview:

In early 19th century New England, an unscrupulous woman uses her beauty and wits to seduce, deceive and control the men around her.

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

7

Overview:

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.

Apache War Smoke

3

Overview:

An outlaw murders several Apaches and flees to a stagecoach way station with the tribe in hot pursuit. A stagecoach and its passengers have just pulled into the station, as has the stationmaster's father, a former bandit named Peso, and they all find themselves besieged by the Apaches, who want them to turn over the killer to them or they'll take the station and kill everybody. The problem is that the people in the station aren't sure just who among therm is the actual killer.

Armstrong Circle Theatre

3

Overview:

Armstrong Circle Theatre is an American anthology drama television series which ran from 1950 to 1957 on NBC, and then until 1963 on CBS. It alternated weekly with The U.S. Steel Hour.

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

6.6

Overview:

A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spiritual and emotional needs of his small flock.

His Girl Friday

7.398

Overview:

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.

Forever and a Day

7.4

Overview:

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.

The Garden Murder Case

5.5

Overview:

Two people with ties to rich murdered socialite Lowe Hammle die from unusual suicides—but Vance suspects foul play.

Mrs. Miniver

7.057

Overview:

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.

Cynthia

5.9

Overview:

Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.

One Foot in Heaven

6.6

Overview:

Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.

Madame Bovary

6.796

Overview:

A frivolous country girl married to a naïve small-town doctor goes down the path of destruction when she grows tired of her limited social status.

Star of Midnight

6

Overview:

When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.

Dr. Kildare Goes Home

6.8

Overview:

A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.

A Christmas Carol

7

Overview:

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Billy the Kid

4.976

Overview:

Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men who killed him, even if it means opposing his friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.

Acting

1996Ingrid Bergman Remembered as Self (archive footage)

1957Jeanne Eagels as Equity Board President

1956The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit as Bill Hawthorne

1956Telephone Time (1 Episode) as Unknown

1956Carousel as Starkeeper / Dr. Selden

1955The Vanishing American as Blucher

1955The 20th Century Fox Hour (1 Episode) as Unknown

1955His Honor, Homer Bell (39 Episodes) as Homer Bell

1954Climax! (1 Episode) as Henry Anderson

1954World for Ransom as Alexis Pederas

1953The Backbone of America as Uncle Cedric

1953The Bells of Cockaigne as Pat

1953Francis Covers the Big Town as Tom Henderson

1953The Lady Wants Mink as Mr. Heggie

1953Confidentially Connie as Dean Edward E. Magruder

1953Down Among the Sheltering Palms as Rev. Paul Edgett

1952Androcles and the Lion as Menagerie Keeper

1952Face to Face as Archbold

1952Apache War Smoke as Cyril R. Snowden

1952Bonzo Goes to College as Clarence B. Gateson

1952Hoodlum Empire as Sen. Tower

1952A Girl in Every Port as Garvey

1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (1 Episode) as Milton Hershey

1951Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1 Episode) as Alfred Renell

1951The Lady from Texas as Judge George Jeffers

1951Rhubarb as Thaddeus J. Banner

1951Tales of Tomorrow (2 Episodes) as Unknown

1951Hill Number One: A Story of Faith and Inspiration as Matthew

1951I'd Climb the Highest Mountain as Jeff Brock

1950Lux Video Theatre (2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Innkeeper, Samuel Fulton, John Hewitt, O'Connor, Leslie Hobbs, David Keeney, Sir George, Evander Cobb

1950Armstrong Circle Theatre (1 Episode) as Unknown

1950The Big Hangover as Charles Parkford

1950Riding High as J.P. Chase

1950Robert Montgomery Presents (3 Episodes) as Unknown

1949The Inspector General as The Mayor

1949Breakdowns of 1949 as Self

1949Red Light as Warni Hazard

1949Madame Bovary as J. Homais

1949Lights Out (1 Episode) as Unknown

1949The Sickle or the Cross as James John

1949Down to the Sea in Ships as Andrew L. Bush

1948Joan of Arc as Georges de la Trémouille, the King's Chief Counsellor