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词条 Calvin Lockhart
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Later years, death and legacy

  4. Personal

  5. Pop culture

  6. Filmography

  7. References

  8. External links

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| image = Calvin_Lockhart.jpg
| caption = Lockhart, 1971.
| birth_name = Bert McClossy Cooper[1]
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|10|18|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Nassau, Bahamas
| death_date = {{death date and age|2007|3|29|1934|10|18|mf=y}}
| death_place = Nassau, Bahamas
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| years_active = 1960–2007
| spouse = (?-?; divorced)[1]
{{marriage|Thelma Walters
|1972|1978|reason=div.}}[3][1]
{{marriage|Lynn Sloan
|August 1982|1987|reason=div.}}[1]
{{Marriage|Jennifer Miles|1989}}
| children = 2
| homepage =
| occupation = Actor
| nationality = Bahamian–American
| education = Cooper Union School of Engineering
| known_for = Rev. Deke O'Malley – Cotton Comes to Harlem
Biggie Smalls – Let's Do It Again
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Calvin Lockhart (born Bert McClossy Cooper; October 18, 1934{{spaced ndash}}March 29, 2007) was a Bahamian–American stage and film actor.[1] Lockhart was perhaps best known for his roles as; Reverend Deke O'Malley in the 1970 film Cotton Comes to Harlem and Biggie Smalls in the 1975 Warner Bros. film Let's Do It Again.

Early life

Lockhart was born Bert McClossy Cooper, the youngest of eight children in Nassau, Bahamas.[2] Lockhart's father was Eric Cooper (b. 1912 or 1913– d. 1976), a Bahamian tailor.[3] Lockhart moved to New York City, New York when he was 18. He spent one year at the Cooper Union School of Engineering, then left to pursue an acting career. He drove a taxi and operated a carpentry business in the borough of Queens while trying to establish a career as an actor.

Career

In 1960, Lockhart made his Broadway debut, playing a gang leader in The Cool World, which closed after just two performances. He then traveled to Italy and formed his own theater company in which he both acted and directed, before moving to West Germany and then England, where he landed various roles on British television and small roles in films such as A Dandy in Aspic and Salt and Pepper. Lockhart's first notable screen role was in Joanna, a 1968 film about an interracial romance, set in London. Joanna was directed by Michael Sarne, who subsequently cast Lockhart in the notorious Myra Breckinridge. Lockhart's first lead role in a film was in Halls of Anger (1970), playing a former basketball star who becomes vice-principal of an inner-city high school to which 60 white students are being moved. An article in The New York Times that year described Lockhart as having "matinee-idol looks" with "chiseled-out-of-marble features" and "skin the color of brown velvet". He also starred in Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) as the Reverend Deke O'Malley. In 1974, Lockhart became an actor-in-residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. In the 1980s he was a guest star for seven episodes in the prime-time soap opera Dynasty, playing Jonathan Lake. He is familiar to horror film fans after his performance as the millionaire big-game hunter in The Beast Must Die (1974).

Later years, death and legacy

Lockhart headed a Los Angeles campaign called "Getting Off Drugs" , an anti-drug effort to get teenagers off drugs in the late-1970s.[4] Lockhart returned to the Bahamas in the late 1990s and worked as a director on several productions of the Freeport Players Guild. Lockhart's last film role was in Rain, a movie that was shot in the Bahamas and was released in 2007. Lockhart died on March 29, 2007 in a Nassau hospital from stroke-related complications, at age 72. His wife and son indicated they would establish the Calvin Lockhart Scholarship Fund for Bahamian students interested in acting and movie production.

Personal

Lockhart has been married four times[1] and have two sons. In 1972, Lockhart married Jamaican model Thelma Walters,[3] they later divorced in 1978. In August 1982, Lockhart married British businesswoman Lynn Sloan in the Bahamas;[5] they later divorced. Lockhart was married New York interior designer Jennifer Miles from 1989 until his death in 2007. Miles is the mother of his son, actor Julien Lockhart Miles. In addition to Julien, Lockhart has another son named Leslie Lockhart.[4]

Pop culture

Lockhart character's name in the 1975 film Let's Do It Again, Biggie Smalls, was used by musical artist Christopher Wallace for his 1991 demo, and was still used by media and friends after a lawsuit forced Wallace to change it to Notorious B.I.G.

Filmography

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  • Venere creola (1961) - Melchiorre
  • Cleopatra (1963) - Minor Role (uncredited)
  • Family Christmas (1965) (TV)
  • Talking to a Stranger (1966) (mini) TV Series - Leonard
  • Girl in a Black Bikini (1967) TV Series - Lee Anderson
  • Drums Along the Avon (1967) (TV) - Bus driver
  • The Mercenaries (1968) - President Mwamini Ubi
  • A Dandy in Aspic (1968) - Brogue
  • Light Blue (The Wednesday Play) (1968) (TV) - Damon Page
  • Only When I Larf (1968) - Ali Lin
  • Salt and Pepper (1968) - Jones
  • Nobody Runs Forever (1968) - Jamaica
  • Joanna (1968) - Gordon
  • Halls of Anger (1970) - Quincy Davis
  • Leo the Last (1970) - Roscoe, the Pimp
  • Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) - Rev. Deke O'Malley
  • Myra Breckinridge (1970) - Irving Amadeus
  • Melinda (1972) - Frankie J. Parker
  • Le Grabuge (1973) - Pablo
  • Contratto carnale (1974) - Ruma/Kofi
  • The Beast Must Die (1974) - Tom Newcliffe
  • Uptown Saturday Night (1974) - Silky Slim
  • Honeybaby, Honeybaby (1974) - Liv
  • Good Times (1978) (TV) - Raymond, Florida Evans' gambler cousin
  • Let's Do It Again (1975) - Biggie Smalls
  • The Marijuana Affair (1975)
  • The Baron (1977) - Jason
  • Starsky & Hutch (1978) - Allen 'Angel' Walter
  • The Baltimore Bullet (1980) - Snow White
  • Coming to America (1988) - Colonel Izzi
  • Wild at Heart (1990) - Reggie
  • Predator 2 (1990) - King Willie
  • Fire Walk with Me (1992) - The Electrician
  • Rain (2008) - Samuel
  • Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014) - The Electrician (final film role; scenes filmed in 1992)
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References

1. ^{{cite news|title= Film|newspaper=Guardian|date=April 23, 2007|url= https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/apr/23/guardianobituaries.obituaries|accessdate=2010-12-03|location=London|first=Ronald|last=Bergan}}
2. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/movies/10lockhart.html NYT - Calvin Lockhart, 72, Blaxploitation Actor, Dies - April 10, 2007], The New York Times
3. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=7UIDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA56&dq=Calvin+Lockhart+wife&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwip46Wxg_7fAhWo4IMKHU7pAUIQ6AEINjAD#v=onepage&q=Calvin%20Lockhart%20wife&f=false JET Magazine - Calvin Lockhart's Father Dies In Nassau, Bahamas - December 9, 1976]
4. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=wEIDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA56&dq=Calvin+Lockhart&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCsa-f-_3fAhXM5YMKHZHxDFsQ6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q=Calvin%20Lockhart&f=false JET Magazine - August 30, 1979]
5. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=oUEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA42&dq=Calvin+Lockhart&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCsa-f-_3fAhXM5YMKHZHxDFsQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=Calvin%20Lockhart&f=false JET Magazine - Actor Calvin Lockhart Marries Businesswoman - September 27, 1982]

External links

  • {{IMDb name|id=0516865|name=Calvin Lockhart}}
  • McLellan, Dennis, "Calvin Lockhart, 72; Bahamian-born actor". The Los Angeles Times, April 7, 2007.
  • The Cocoa Lounge Remembers Calvin Lockhart, Biography. Cocoalounge.com
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