Gary Lockwood was born in Van Nuys, California. He attended the University of California at Los Angeles on a football scholarship. He began his career as a movie stuntman, and a stand-in for Anthony Perkins, prior to his acting debut in 1959 in an uncredited bit role in Warlock (1959). He also appeared as a police officer in Perry Mason: The Case ...
Wild in the Country, Splendor in the Grass, The Magic Sword, It Happened at the World's Fair, Firecreek, 2001: A Space Odyssey, They Came to Rob Las Vegas, Model Shop, Earth II, Kill, Bad Georgia Road, Survival Zone, Night of the Scarecrow, Number One, The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite
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The Lieutenant, Follow the Sun
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Pisces
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I've been very fortunate. I've played football, I've crashed cars, I chased a lot of girls, I've got a great education, I've done stunt work, and I got to work with many wonderful people in my career. What more could I have asked for?
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It's kind of what life is all about. If you don't have some of that recognition between now and the time you die, it wouldn't be a hell of a lot of fun being here. But I've been blessed throughout my life to have those kinds of accolades. I've just been lucky.
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Chicks love dough. Any kind. Cookies, muffins, and money.
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I'm an actor. I've done a little bit of everything. An actor is kind of like a cowboy. The show's over on Sunday and then you ride off to the next gig. Basically, that's what show business is all about.
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Most famous for his role in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey", Lockwood had, in fact, worked for Kubrick before, in an uncredited bit part in "Spartacus".
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While appearing in Star Trek (1966)'s second pilot episode, Star Trek: Where No Man Has Gone Before (1966), he was required to wear heavy silver contact lenses for his character. Lockwood had difficulty wearing the lenses as they were heavy, thick, and only had one tiny hole for him to see through. He claimed, afterward, that the lenses were to blame for his later vision problems.
Got his name from legendary director Joshua Logan, whose middle name is Lockwood, because no one could pronounce Gary's real last name: Yurosek. A generation later his daughter actress Samantha Lockwood is best friends with actor Billy Lockwood, who is related to the very man who gave Gary his first job!.
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Ironically, Lockwood's Frank Poole character (from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)) learns about Star Trek's success in the novel "3001: A Final Oddyssey".
One of his most memorable TV roles, and one of the most memorable on the series, was on the Love, American Style (1969) episode, Love, American Style: Love and the Phone Booth/Love and the Doorknob (1969), in which he plays a guy who is told his mouth is too small. To test it out, he accidentally wraps his mouth around a doorknob and gets stuck! His co-star in that episode was, none other than, his wife at the time, Stefanie Powers.
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Reliable over the years for playing boyish-faced bullies in westerns and police dramas.
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Appeared in the Star Trek (1966) second pilot episode, Star Trek: Where No Man Has Gone Before (1966) with the new Enterprise captain, Kirk (the first pilot was The Cage with Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike), and has since appeared at many of the "Star Trek" conventions. He recently attended the Trek Expo in Tulsa, Oklahoma (2002).
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Broke into the entertainment field as a stunt man and stand-in for actor Anthony Perkins.
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