Gene Lockhart Net Worth is
$16 Million

Mini Biography

Gene Lockhart was created on July 18, 1891, in London, Ontario, Canada, the boy of John Coates Lockhart and Ellen Mary (Delany) Lockhart. His dad had studied performing and youthful Gene displayed an early on interest in dilemma and music. Soon after the 7-year-old danced a Highland fling within a concert distributed by the 48th Highlanders’ Regimental Music group, his father joined up with the band being a Scottish tenor. The Lockhart family members accompanied the music group to Britain. While his dad toured, Gene researched on the Brompton Oratory College in London. If they came back to Canada, Gene started performing in concert, frequently on a single plan with Beatrice Lillie. His mom encouraged his profession, urging him to try for a component on Broadway. Lockhart visited America. At 25, he got a component in a fresh York play in Sept, 1917, as Gustave in Klaw and Erlanger’s musical “The Riviera Female.” Between performing engagements, he had written for the stage. His initial creation was “The Pierrot Players” that he had written both reserve and lyrics and performed. It toured Canada in 1919 and released “THE PLANET Is Looking forward to the Sunrise” (phrases by Lockhart, music by Ernest Seitz), which became an extremely well-known ballad.. “Heigh-Ho” (1920) implemented, a musical illusion with rating by Deems Taylor and reserve and lyrics by Lockhart. It got a short operate (once again, with him within the ensemble). Lockhart’s first proper break being a dramatic professional emerged in the helping function of Bud, a mountaineer moonshiner, in Lula Vollmer’s Sunlight Up (1939). This is an American folk play, initial presented with the Players, a theatrical membership, within a Greenwich Community little movie theater in 1923. After great notices it transferred to a more substantial house for the two-year run. In this engagement, in 1924 at age 33, Lockhart wedded Kathleen Lockhart (aka Kathleen Arthur), an British celebrity and musician. Gene on the other hand also made an appearance in some performances presented with the Players in NY theaters: as Gregoire in “THE TINY Father from the Wilderness”; as Waitwell in “JUST HOW of the Globe,” as Gumption Cute in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, so when Faust in “Mephisto.” The Lockharts’ little girl, June Lockhart, was created in 1925. She’d eventually appear frequently in the tv screen series Lassie (1954) and Shed in Space (1965). In 1933, Gene and Kathleen had been highlighted in “Weekend Evening at Nine,” a radio plan provided at New York’s Barbizon-Plaza Resort. On the other hand, Lockhart was keeping active writing and submitting articles for theatrical periodicals and a every week column for the Canadian publication, training associates of New York’s Junior Group in dramatics, lecturing on dramatic technique on the Julliard College of Music, and directing a revival of “The Warrior’s Hubby”–a formidable timetable. It amused him as he stated that, “regardless of [the quantity of function in an average time] I do not get slim.” Lockhart acquired by this time around taken on the looks that viewers would see over and over in films–short and plump using a chubby, jowly encounter and twinkling blue eye. In 1933, he performed Uncle Sid within the Theater Guild’s creation of Eugene O’Neill’s humor “Ah, Wilderness!” co-starring George M. Cohan. This is the role which was to create Lockhart stardom and result in a agreement with RKO Images and his initial film, FROM YOUR Keep (1934). O’Neill composed to Lockhart: “Each time your Sid provides come in for supper I’ve wished to burst into melody, and each time you’ve drop from that nap I’ve sensed the cold grey ghost of a vintage heebie-jeebie.” The acclaim for his performing in “Ah, Wilderness!” allowed Lockhart to check out Hollywood and stay there nearly without interruption. Nevertheless, he was back again on Broadway in Dec, 1949, when he overran the section of Willy Loman in the brand new York creation of “Loss of life of the Salesman.” Lockhart made an appearance in over 125 movies. Though he frequently performed upright doctors, judges and entrepreneurs, and is at real life referred to as an amiable and soft soul, Lockhart could very well be best appreciated on film being a villain who generally eventually ends up cowering within a part whimpering pitifully before obtaining his just sweets, a picture he played towards the hilt in such films as Algiers (1938) (that he was nominated for an Oscar), Blackmail (1939), Geronimo (1939), North Quest (1943), and Hangmen Also Die! (1943). Later on Sunday, March 30, 1957, Lockhart experienced a coronary attack during sleep in his house at 10439 Ashton Avenue in Western world LA. He was taken up to St. John’s Medical center and passed away on Sunday evening, March 31. He’s buried in Holy Combination Cemetery.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Gene Lockhart
Died	March 31, 1957, Santa Monica, California, United States
Profession	Actor, Teacher, Singer, Playwright, Songwriter, Lyricist
Education	Juilliard School
Nationality	Canadian
Spouse	Kathleen Lockhart
Children	June Lockhart
Parents	Ellen Mary Lockhart, John Coates Lockhart
Nominations	Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Movies	Miracle on 34th Street, A Christmas Carol, His Girl Friday, Going My Way, Meet John Doe, Leave Her to Heaven, They Died with Their Boots On, Algiers, Hangmen Also Die!, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The Inspector General, The House on 92nd Street, Carousel, Joan of Arc, The Story of Alexander Graham Bell, Mission to Moscow, The Devil and Daniel Webster, I'd Climb the Highest Mountain, Down to the Sea in Ships, Juke Girl, Apache War Smoke, Action in Arabia, Sweethearts, Northern Pursuit, A Scandal in Paris, World for Ransom, Jeanne Eagels, Francis Covers the Big Town, Something to Sing About, The Devil Is a Sissy, Times Square Playboy, Billy the Kid, Crime and Punishment, Star of Midnight, One Foot in Heaven, The Garden Murder Case, Down Among the Sheltering Palms, Dr. Kildare Goes Home, The Lady Wants Mink, Penrod's Double Trouble, Confidentially Connie, Her Husband's Affairs, South of Pago Pago, Hoodlum Empire, Earthworm Tractors, Brides Are Like That, You Can't Escape Forever, By Your Leave, Captain Hurricane, Meet the Girls