Spanish postcard by Postalcolor, Hospitalet (Barcelona), no. 56, 1964.
British postcard by Pyramid, Leicester, no. PC 8375. Caption: 2001: Cockpit. Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood in 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968).
French postcard by Ciné-Tamaris and Arte Video to promote the DVD and CD box 'Intégrale Jacques Demy'. Anouk Aimée and Gary Lockwood in Model Shop (Jacques Demy, 1969).
Co-starring with Elvis Presley
Gary Lockwood was born John Gary Yurosek in 1937 in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California. His parents were John and Margaret Emma (Kiel) Yurosek, and he was of partial Polish descent. His uncle, Mike Yurosek, is credited with creating baby-cut carrots. Lockwood was a one-year letterman for legendary football coach Red Sanders in 1956 and is listed as Gary Yurosek in official UCLA Athletics records.
Lockwood was a film stuntman and a stand-in for Anthony Perkins before his acting debut in 1959 in an uncredited bit role in the Western Warlock (Edward Dmytryk, 1959) starring Richard Widmark and Henry Fonda. In 1959, he also had an uncredited role as a police officer in the Perry Mason episode 'The Case of the Romantic Rogue'.
Lockwood's two series came early in his career, and each lasted only a single season. In Hawaii-set Follow the Sun (1961–1962), he played a supporting role alongside Brett Halsey and Barry Coe, who played adventurous magazine writers based in Honolulu. Lockwood was Eric Jason, who did the legwork for their articles. He appeared in a supporting role in the TV series Bus Stop (1961). The 26-week series, which starred Marilyn Maxwell as the owner of a diner in fictitious Sunrise, Colorado, aired a half-hour after Follow the Sun. Thereafter, Lockwood starred with Jeff Bridges in the acclaimed 'My Daddy Can Beat Your Daddy' episode of The Lloyd Bridges Show.
In his film debut, he appeared with Tuesday Weld in Wild in the Country (Philip Dunne, 1961), starring Elvis Presley. He had a supporting part alongside Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty in the period drama Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan, 1961). His first lead role came in the fantasy film The Magic Sword (Bert I. Gordon, 1961), loosely based on the medieval legend of Saint George and the Dragon. In 1962, Lockwood again appeared on Perry Mason in the lead role in the episode 'The Case of the Playboy Pugilist'. In 1963, Lockwood co-starred with Elvis Presley in the musical-comedy film It Happened at the World's Fair (Norman Taurog, 1963).
In 1963 and 1964, Lockwood starred as a young U.S. Marine second lieutenant named William T. 'Bill' Rice in the TV series The Lieutenant. This drama, about the peacetime Marines, was produced by the creators of Star Trek (Gene Roddenberry) and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (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 nighttime slot, opposite popular Jackie Gleason's American Scene Magazine, hastened its cancellation after 29 episodes. Lockwood guest-starred in episodes of 12 O'Clock High (1964-1965). He was cast as Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell in the second Star Trek pilot, Where No Man Has Gone Before (James Goldstone, 1965), in which his character develops destructive superpowers. In 1966, he starred as murderous bank-robbing cowboy Jim Stark in a rare two-part episode of Gunsmoke called 'The Raid', along with John Anderson, Michael Conrad, Jim Davis, and Richard Jaeckel.
American Arcade card.
Spanish postcard by Toro de Bronce, no. 200, 1964.
One of the major artistic works of the 20th century
Gary Lockwood is best known on the big screen for his co-starring role as Dr. Frank Poole in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) opposite Keir Dullea. In 1968, the film polarised critical opinion, receiving both praise and derision. Wikipedia: "2001: A Space Odyssey is widely regarded as among the greatest and most influential films. It is considered one of the major artistic works of the 20th century, with many critics and filmmakers considering it Kubrick's masterpiece."
The masterpiece did not turn Lockwood into a major star. He was the lead in the romantic drama Model Shop (1969) with Anouk Aimée, the American debut of French writer-director Jacques Demy. He also starred with Elke Sommer in the crime drama They Came to Rob Las Vegas (Antonio Isasi, 1968) and with Jacqueline Bisset and Stella Stevens in the comedy Stand Up and Be Counted (Jackie Cooper, 1972). However, the majority of Lockwood's career since his role in 2001 has been comprised of television guest appearances, made-for-TV movies, and other television projects.
His TV guest appearances include the family drama Three for the Road (1975) and Barnaby Jones (1973-1979), an American detective television series starring Buddy Ebsen as a formerly retired investigator and Lee Meriwether as his widowed daughter-in-law. He appeared in six episodes as a villain. Lockwood co-starred with Stefanie Powers, who was then his wife, in Love and the Door Knob (Bruce Bilson, 1969), an episode of the anthology series Love, American Style, as a newlywed who is told his mouth is too small. To test it out, he accidentally wraps his mouth around a doorknob and gets stuck. In 1983, he guest-starred in the series Hart to Hart with Robert Wagner and Powers, his ex-wife by then.
His later films included the action film, Project: Kill (William Girdler, 1976) starring Leslie Nielsen before Nielsen began doing comedies, the action-comedy Bad Georgia Road (John C. Broderick, 1977) with Carol Lynley, the South African post-apocalyptic action-thriller Survival Zone (Percival Rubens, 1983) with Camilla Sparv, and the supernatural slasher film Night of the Scarecrow (Jeff Burr, 1995). In 2022, Lockwood again portrayed Star Trek Commander Gary Mitchell in OTOY's short Mini series 765874 – Unification, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Star Trek: Generations. The series used digital technology to simulate his appearance in 1966. Despite his one-time guest appearance in the Trek franchise, Lockwood also participated in the 1997 documentary Trekkies, which chronicles the impact of Star Trek on US culture and appeared at many of the Star Trek conventions.
Gary Lockwood has been married three times. His first marriage was in 1966 to actress Stefanie Powers. The couple divorced in 1972. In 1982, Lockwood married actress and businesswoman Denise DuBarry, with whom he has a daughter, actress Samantha Lockwood (1982). The couple divorced in 1988. In 2006, he married his third wife, Hope Gilchrist Harrsen. According to IMDb, they are now divorced.
Spanish postcard by Postal Oscarcolor, no. 585. Photo: MGM-TV. Gary Lockwood in The Lieutenant (1963-1964).
Spanish postcard, no. 421-V, 1966. Gary Lockwood in The Lieutenant (1963-1964).
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