Gary Lockwood

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Gary Lockwood
Lockwood at WonderCon 2009
Born	John Gary Yurosek February 11, 1937 (1937-02-11) (age 72) Van Nuys, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Spouse(s)	Denise DuBarry (1982–1988), one child Samantha Lockwood Stefanie Powers (1966–1972) Hope Gilchrist Harrsen (born 1953) (? – ?)

Gary Lockwood (born John Gary Yurosek^{[citation needed]} on February 21, 1937) is an American actor perhaps best known for his iconic 1968 role as the astronaut Dr. Frank Poole in 2001: A Space Odyssey. He is father of the actress Samantha Lockwood. Both currently live in Los Angeles.

Early life

Lockwood's birth name was John Gary Yurosek.^{[citation needed]} He was born in Van Nuys in the San Fernando Valley of southern California. He attended the University of California at Los Angeles on a football scholarship. He was married to Stephanie Powers in the 1960's.

Career

Lockwood was a movie stuntman, and a stand-in for Anthony Perkins prior to his acting debut in 1959 in an uncredited bit role in Warlock.

Lockwood's two series came early in his career, and each lasted only a single season. ABC's Hawaii-set Follow the Sun in 1961–1962 cast him in support of Brett Halsey and Barry Coe, who played adventurous magazine writers based in Honolulu. Lockwood was Eric Jason, who did the legwork for their articles, but his on-screen time was limited since most of the plot focused on Halsey or Coe. In the story, Lockwood was said to have been born on December 7, 1941 (Pearl Harbor Day), but he was actually born nearly five years earlier.

On November 12, 1961, Lockwood appeared as a rodeo cowboy named Bo in love with an 18-year-old singer, Cherie, played by Tuesday Weld in ABC's Bus Stop. The 26-week series starred Marilyn Maxwell as the owner of a diner in fictitious Sunrise, Colorado. Bus Stop aired a half-hour after Follow the Sun. Thereafter, he starred with Jeff Bridges in the acclaimed "My Daddy Can Beat Your Daddy" episode of CBS's anthology series, The Lloyd Bridges Show.

In 1963-1964, Lockwood starred as a young U.S. Marine second lieutenant named William T. "Bill" Rice in the NBC series The Lieutenant. The drama about the peacetime Marines was produced by the Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. creator Norman Felton. The series co-starred Robert Vaughn as Lieutenant Rice's immediate superior, Captain Raymond Rambridge. Despite moderately good reviews, The Lieutenant's Saturday night time slot opposite CBS's blockbuster Jackie Gleason's American Scene Magazine caused its cancellation after twenty-nine episodes.

Shortly afterwards, Lockwood starred in another NBC television series called The Kraft Mystery Theater, also known as Crisis, in an episode titled "Connery's Hands". He was cast opposite Sally Kellerman, with whom he would again appear in a Star Trek episode called "Where No Man Has Gone Before" as Helmsman Gary Mitchell, and Kellerman as the ship's psychiatrist Dr. Elizabeth Dehner, who both develop super powers after being jolted and knocked unconscious by an unknown electrical force. This episode was originally produced in 1965, but aired in 1966, due to the pilot episode "The Cage" being rejected. (It was filmed as the series' second pilot, but broadcast as the third episode.)

In 1966, Lockwood guest starred as Clint Bethard in the episode "Reunion" of ABC's The Legend of Jesse James, starring Christopher Jones in the title role. That same year, Lockwood appeared as Danny Hamil on the episode "Day of Thunder" of NBC's drama, The Long Hot Summer, based loosely on the works of William Faulkner. He appeared twice in 1966 as Jim Stark in the two-part episode "The Raid" of CBS's Gunsmoke with James Arness.

He co-starred with Stefanie Powers (his wife at the time) in an episode of ABC's Love, American Style as a newlywed who gets his mouth stuck around a doorknob. In 1983 he made a guest starring role in the series "[Hart to Hart]", starring Robert Wagner, and [now his ex-wife] Stefanie Powers. It was from Season 4, called "Emily by Hart".

Between 1959 and 2004, Gary Lockwood had roles in some forty theatrical and made-for-TV features and made almost eighty TV guest appearances, including several as a villain on CBS-TV's Barnaby Jones starring Buddy Ebsen.

Partial filmography

• Wild in the Country (1961) as Cliff Macy
• Splendor in the Grass (1961) as Toots
• The Magic Sword (1962) as Sir George
• Star Trek: 'Where No Man Has Gone Before' (1965) as Lt. Cdr. Gary Mitchell
• It Happened at the World's Fair (1963) as Danny Burke
• Firecreek (1968) as Earl
• They Came to Rob Las Vegas (1968) as Tony Ferris
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) as Dr. Frank Poole
• Model_Shop_(film) (1969) as George Matthews
• RPM (1970) as Rossiter
• Earth II (TV series pilot) (1971) as David Seville
• Project Kill (1976) as Frank Lassiter
• The Quest (1976), a short-lived NBC western
• The Ghost of Flight 401 (1978 TV) as Jordan Evanhower
• The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel (1978 TV)
• The Top of the Hill (1980 TV) as Dave Cully
• Emergency Room (1983 TV) as Dr. David Becker
• The Wild Pair (1987) as Captain Kramer
• Terror in Paradise (1990) as Major Douglas
• Night of the Scarecrow (1995) as Mayor William Goodman

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Gary Lockwood

• Gary Lockwood at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• Gary Lockwood at the Internet Movie Database