Alexander Lockwood
Biography
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Alexander Lockwood (May 5, 1902 – January 25, 1990) was an American actor. He appeared in numerous films and television shows throughout the 1930s to the 1980s.
Lockwood was born in Slezská Ostrava, now Czech Republic, in 1902. Lockwood began his acting career in film in 1938, appearing in films like Just Off Broadway, Sherlock Holmes in Washington and Jigsaw during the 1940s. During the 1950s and 1960s he appeared in films like The Wrong Man and The Invisible Boy with Richard Eyer. He also appeared in The Story of Mankind and Monster on the Campus. He also acted in films like The Tarnished Angels and Edge of Eternitywith Cornel Wilde and Cary Grant during the late 1950s. During the 1960s he appeared in films like Beauty and the Beast with Joyce Taylor and Walk on the Wild Side with Laurence Harvey and The Monkey's Uncle with Tommy Kirk during the 1960s. During the 1970s he appeared in films like Duel, Family Plot and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Lockwood last acted in the film Romantic Comedy in 1983.
Lockwood died in 1990 at the age of 87.
Filmography
North by Northwest
as Judge Anson B. Flynn (uncredited) 1959
The Sting
as Landlord (uncredited) 1973
Duel
as Old Man in Car 1971
Saboteur
as Marine (uncredited) 1942
Family Plot
as Parson 1976
Run Silent, Run Deep
as Minor Role (uncredited) 1958
The Tarnished Angels
as Sam Hagood 1957
Walk on the Wild Side
as Doctor in Teresina’s Cafe (uncredited) 1962
Monster on the Campus
as Prof. Gilbert Howard 1958
Wholly Moses
as Elderly Man 1980
The Invisible Boy
as Arthur Kelvaney 1957
Edge of Eternity
as Jim Kendon 1959
The Monkey's Uncle
as Regent 1965
Romantic Comedy
as Minister 1983
Jigsaw
as Nichols 1949
The Tattered Dress
as Paul Vernon 1957