Gene Lockhart (Actor)

Reviews of Gene Lockhart Movies

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Movies starring Gene Lockhart have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 62%.

His Girl Friday - released in 1940 - is Gene Lockhart's highest rated movie, with a score of 80% based on 657 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Gene Lockhart is Her Husband's Affairs - released in 1947 - with a score of 43% based on 1 reviews.

Actor Biography

Edwin Eugene Lockhart (July 18, 1891 – March 31, 1957) was a Canadian-American character actor, singer, and playwright. He also wrote the lyrics to a number of popular songs. He became a United States citizen in 1939.

Born in London, Ontario, the son of John Coats Lockhart and Ellen Mary (née Delaney) Lockhart, he made his professional debut at the age of six when he appeared with the Kilties Band of Canada. He later appeared in sketches with Beatrice Lillie.

Lockhart is mostly remembered for his film work. He made his film debut in the 1922 version of Smilin' Through, as the Rector, but did not make his sound debut until 1934 in the film By Your Leave, where he played the playboy Skeets. Lockhart subsequently appeared in more than 300 motion pictures. He often played villains, including a role as the treacherous informant Regis in Algiers, the American remake of Pepe le Moko, which gained him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He also played the suspicious Georges de la Trémouille, the Dauphin's chief counselor, in the famous 1948 film Joan of Arc, starring Ingrid Bergman. He had a great succession of "good guy" supporting roles including Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol (1938) and the judge in Miracle on 34th Street (1947).

Gene Lockhart has acted in films with Kathleen Lockhart, Charles Trowbridge, Irving Bacon and Milton Kibbee.

Gene Lockhart has worked with these film directors: Henry King, Clarence Brown, Edwin L. Marin and Michael Curtiz.