Gene Lockhart

Actor

About

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Birth Place

London, Ontario, CA

Born

July 18, 1891

Died

March 31, 1957

Biography

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Prolific, versatile character player, in films from the early 1920s. Daughter June Lockhart (born 1925) began appearing in movies in the 1940s and on TV in the 50s, notably in the series "Lassie" (1955-64) and "Lost in Space" (1965-66)....

Filmography

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Jeanne Eagels (1957)

Equity Board President

Carousel (1956)

Starkeeper/Dr. Selden

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)

The Vanishing American (1955)

World for Ransom (1954)

Confidentially Connie (1953)

Dean [Edward E.] Magruder

Photos & Videos

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Northern Pursuit (1943) -- (Movie Clip) You Think This Is Cold?

Blackmail (1939) -- (Movie Clip) White Or Whole Wheat?

Family & Companions

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Kathleen Lockhart

Wife

Actor. Born 1881, died 1978.

Biography

Prolific, versatile character player, in films from the early 1920s. Daughter June Lockhart (born 1925) began appearing in movies in the 1940s and on TV in the 50s, notably in the series "Lassie" (1955-64) and "Lost in Space" (1965-66).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Jeanne Eagels (1957)

Equity Board President

Carousel (1956)

Starkeeper/Dr. Selden

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)

The Vanishing American (1955)

World for Ransom (1954)

Confidentially Connie (1953)

Dean [Edward E.] Magruder

Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1953)

Rev. Paul Edgett

The Lady Wants Mink (1953)

Androcles and the Lion (1953)

Menagerie keeper

Francis Covers the Big Town (1953)

Hoodlum Empire (1952)

Apache War Smoke (1952)

Cyril R. Snowden

Bonzo Goes to College (1952)

Clarence B. Gateson

A Girl in Every Port (1952)

Face to Face (1952)

Captain Archbold

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951)

Thaddeus J. Banner

The Big Hangover (1950)

Charles Parkford

Riding High (1950)

That Wonderful Urge (1949)

Red Light (1949)

The Sickle or the Cross (1949)

The Inspector General (1949)

Down to the Sea in Ships (1949)

Madame Bovary (1949)

Apartment for Peggy (1948)

Prof. Edward Bell

The Inside Story (1948)

I, Jane Doe (1948)

Joan of Arc (1948)

Georges de la Trémouille, the King's chief counselor

The Foxes of Harrow (1947)

Vicomte D'Arceneaux

Honeymoon (1947)

Her Husband's Affairs (1947)

Peter Winterbottom

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Judge Henry X. Harper

Dr. Fred I. Jannings

Leave Her to Heaven (1946)

Meet Me on Broadway (1946)

The Strange Woman (1946)

A Scandal in Paris (1946)

Chief of Police Richet

A Scandal in Paris (1946)

Chief of Police Richet

That's the Spirit (1945)

Jasper [Cawthorne]

The House on 92nd Street (1945)

Charles Ogden Roper

Going My Way (1944)

Ted Haines, Sr.

Man from Frisco (1944)

Action in Arabia (1944)

Hangmen Also Die! (1943)

The beerbrewer Emil Czaka

Mission to Moscow (1943)

Northern Pursuit (1943)

The Desert Song (1943)

Find the Blackmailer (1943)

Forever and a Day (1943)

The Gay Sisters (1942)

Herschell Gibbon

You Can't Escape Forever (1942)

Juke Girl (1942)

They Died with Their Boots On (1942)

Samuel Bacon, Esq.

Meet John Doe (1941)

Steel Against the Sky (1941)

One Foot in Heaven (1941)

Preston Thurston

International Lady (1941)

[Sidney] Grenner

The Sea Wolf (1941)

Dr. [Louis] Prescott

All That Money Can Buy (1941)

Billy the Kid (1941)

Geronimo (1940)

Edison, the Man (1940)

Keeping Company (1940)

South of Pago Pago (1940)

Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940)

A Dispatch from Reuters (1940)

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)

Stephen Douglas

We Who Are Young (1940)

His Girl Friday (1940)

Sheriff [Peter B.] Hartwell

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)

Bridal Suite (1939)

Cornelius McGill

Our Leading Citizen (1939)

I'm from Missouri (1939)

Tell No Tales (1939)

Blackmail (1939)

Hotel Imperial (1939)

Of Human Hearts (1938)

Men Are Such Fools (1938)

Listen, Darling (1938)

Mr. [Arthur] Drubbs

Meet the Girls (1938)

Sinners in Paradise (1938)

Senator [John P.] Corey

A Christmas Carol (1938)

Penrod's Double Trouble (1938)

Mr. [Frank] Schofield

Sweethearts (1938)

Augustus [Marlowe]

Mama Steps Out (1937)

Too Many Wives (1937)

Winfield Jackson

The Sheik Steps Out (1937)

Samuel P. Murdock

Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

The Devil Is a Sissy (1936)

Career Woman (1936)

Uncle Billy Burley

The First Baby (1936)

Mr. [Henry] Ellis

Earthworm Tractors (1936)

The Garden Murder Case (1936)

[Edgar] Lowe Hammle

Wedding Present (1936)

Archduke Gustav Ernest

Mind Your Own Business (1936)

Brides Are Like That (1936)

Come Closer, Folks (1936)

Times Square Playboy (1936)

P. H. [Ben also known as Pighead] Bancroft

Crime and Punishment (1935)

Thunder in the Night (1935)

Captain Hurricane (1935)

Captain Jeremiah Taylor

Storm over the Andes (1935)

Star of Midnight (1935)

By Your Leave (1934)

I've Been Around (1934)

Writer (Feature Film)

Forever and a Day (1943)

Music (Feature Film)

Mrs. Miniver (1942)

Cast (Special)

His Honor, Homer Bell (1955)

Judge Homer Bell

Backbone of America (1953)

Life Events

Photo Collections

Confidentially Connie - Lobby Cards

Here are a few Lobby Cards from Confidentially Connie (1953), starring Van Johnson and Janet Leigh. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

A Christmas Carol (1938) - Scene Stills

Here are several scene stills from MGM's A Christmas Carol (1938), starring Reginald Owen as Ebenezer Scrooge.

Videos

Northern Pursuit (1943) -- (Movie Clip) You Think This Is Cold? End of the opening narration (by Lou Marcelle (as in Casablanca, 1942), impressive simulated submarine, emergence of Nazi spy von Keller (Helmut Dantine), and seemingly unrelated Canadian skullduggery between Wills (Gene Lockhart) and Dagor (Bernard Nedell), from Raoul Walsh's Northern Pursuit, 1943, starring Errol Flynn.

Blackmail (1939) -- (Movie Clip) White Or Whole Wheat? Oklahoma oil-rig fire fighter (Edward G. Robinson as John Ingram) returns home with his wife and son (Ruth Hussey, Bobs Watson) celebrating the opening of his own first well when he’s confronted by a drifter (Gene Lockhart as Ramey), who makes clear why he’s been sensitive about his past, in MGM’s Blackmail, 1939.

Blackmail (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Use A Nasty Word Like That Oklahoma oil-rig fire fighter (Edward G. Robinson as John Ingram) returns home with his wife and son (Ruth Hussey, Bobs Watson) celebrating the opening of his own first well when he’s confronted by a drifter (Gene Lockhart as Ramey), who makes clear why he’s been sensitive about his past, in MGM’s Blackmail, 1939.

Honeymoon (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Every Smart Young Diplomat Franchot Tone is David, U.S. Consul in Mexico City receiving his local fiancée (Lina Romay), Gene Lockhart with his staff, then young Barbara (Shirley Temple) from Minnesota, needing help because her soldier fiancé (Guy Madison) couldn’t make their wedding date, in RKO’s Honeymoon, 1947.

Scandal In Paris (1946) -- (Movie Clip) It Looks Made For You scandalinparis_itlooksmadeforyou_FC

Desert Song, The (1944) -- (Movie Clip) One Alone Working in the song from the 1926 Sig Romberg operetta (lyrics credited to Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II and Frank Mandel), American Paul (Dennis Morgan) entertains the French commander (Bruce Cabot), joined by singer Margot (Irene Manning), but really alerting the local Moroccan rebels, Gene Lockhart the club owner, in The Desert Song, 1944.

Star Of Midnight (1935) -- (Movie Clip) I Never Bit A Dog In My Life Star William Powell as lawyer and amateur detective Clay Dalzell is introduced, as friend Tim (Leslie Fenton) talks about his disappeared fianceè, butler Swayne (Gene Lockhart) offers booze, and gal pal Donna (Ginger Rogers) arrives, Russell Hopton on the phone, in the RKO Thin Man lookalike, Star Of Midnight, 1935.

Star Of Midnight (1935) -- (Movie Clip) He Was Shot In The... Comical cops (Robert E. O’Connor, J. Farrell MacDonald) are leaving as lawyer and sometime sleuth Dalzell (William Powell) explains to kinda-girlfriend Donna (Ginger Rogers) that he got caught pretending he was on the phone with her, then she finds out he got shot, Gene Lockhart his butler, in Star Of Midnight, 1935.

Man In The Gray Flannel Suit, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) In That Chromium Jungle Writer-director Nunnally Johnson’s opening, New York, Grand Central, the train and Connecticut, introducing Gregory Peck, Gene Lockhart as fellow commuter Bill, picked up by spouse Jennifer Jones, in The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit, 1956, from the best-selling novel by Sloan Wilson.

Christmas Carol, A (1938) -- (Movie Clip) My Name Is Scrooge Nephew Fred (Barry MacKay) is bidding farewell to Cratchit (Gene Lockhart) when two do-gooders (Halliwell Hobbes, Charles Coleman) solicit Scrooge (Reginald Owen) in MGM's A Christmas Carol, 1938.

Abe Lincoln In Illinois (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Ignorance Is No Obstacle Mourning Abe (Raymond Massey) departs New Salem to begin his legislative career, ending it in the following scene which introduces friendly rival Stephen Douglas (Gene Lockhart), in director John Cromwell's Abe Lincoln In Illinois, 1940, from Robert E. Sherwood's play and screenplay.

Abe Lincoln In Illinois (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Self Made Man At a party hosted by the Edwards (Harvey Stephens, Dorothy Tree), we meet Mary Todd (Ruth Gordon), pursued by Douglas (Gene Lockhart), until Abe (Raymond Massey), with Joshua Speed (Minor Watson), arrives, in Abe Lincoln In Illinois, 1940.

Penrod's Double Trouble - (Original Trailer) A missing boy's lookalike takes his place and raises havoc in Penrod's Double Trouble (1938).

Mama Steps Out - (Original Trailer) Alice Brady is a dizzy society matron running wild on the Riviera in Mama Steps Out (1937).

Girl In Every Port, A (1952) - (Original Trailer) Two sailors (Groucho Marx, William Bendix) invest in a racehorse in A Girl In Every Port (1952).

Find the Blackmailer - (Original Trailer) A mayoral candidate and a talking bird complicate a detective's search to Find The Blackmailer (1943).

Dr. Kildare Goes Home - (Original Trailer) For the fifth movie in the series Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940) after his practitioner father collapses from overwork.

Dispatch From Reuters, A - (Original Trailer) An entrepreneur (Edward G. Robinson) builds an international news agency.

Cynthia -- (Original Trailer) 15-year old Elizabeth Taylor receives her first screen kiss in Cynthia (1947).

His Girl Friday -- (Original Trailer) Cary Grant does everything to keep his ex-wife and star reporter Rosalind Russell from re-marriage in Howard Hawks' classic comedy His Girl Friday (1940).

Brides Are Like That - (Original Trailer) A young man uses flattery to beat out a romantic rival in Brides Are Like That (1936).

Blackmail (1939) - (Original Trailer) Edward G. Robinson plays a man in prison on false charges who escapes to save his family from Blackmail (1939).

Abe Lincoln in Illinois - (Original Trailer) Raymond Massey portrays the rail-splitter in his journey from log cabin to the White House in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940).

Going My Way - (Original Trailer) Eight Oscars including Best Picture and Best Actor went to Going My Way (1944) the story of a young singing priest (Bing Crosby) in a new parish.

Family

J Coates Lockhart

Father

Tenor.

Ellen Delaney

Mother

Singer.

June Lockhart

Daughter

Actor. Born June 25, 1925, mother Kathleen Arthur.

Companions

Kathleen Lockhart

Wife

Actor. Born 1881, died 1978.

Bibliography

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