Araby Lockhart

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Araby Lockhart
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Lockhart in 2011
Born (1926-12-04) December 4, 1926 (age 98)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation Actor
SpouseJohn Gray

Araby Lockhart (born December 4, 1926) is a Canadian stage and television actress, best known for her performances in the films Capote and Police Academy and her stage performances as a member of Hart House Theatre and the Straw Hat Players. Lockhart has also served as President of the Actors' Fund of Canada.

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Biography

Lockhart became interested in acting as a teenager and attended the University of Toronto in 1947, where she acted at Hart House Theatre under artistic director Robert Gill. She also accompanied Gill to act in summer stock theatre in Woodstock, New York. [1] In the summer of 1948, Gill's students Murray and Donald Davis founded the Straw Hat Players repertory theatre company at their summer home in Port Carling, Muskoka; Lockhart was a member of the company and acted in the company's first production of the melodrama The Drunkard, along with classmates Charmion King, Ted Follows, and Eric House. [2] While at Hart House, she met John Gray, an aspiring writer and actor, and they married in 1952. [3]

Lockhart also toured Canada with the show Spare Rib, showcasing the history of Canada as told and performed by women, in 1955 and served as a member of the Stratford Festival company. In 1956, Lockhart appeared in two Crest Theatre productions: The School for Scandal and The Women . [4]

In 1960, Lockhart, Gray and their three children, John, Nicholas, and Rebecca, moved to London to find work in the vital West End theatre scene. Lockhart produced and performed in the Canadian satirical revue Clap Hands, co-written by Gray, at the Prince Charles Theatre and the Lyric Hammersmith, along with Peter Mews, and Eric House. While in London, the couple had two more children, Susannah and Felix.

Gray and Lockhart divorced in 1983.

Film and television performances

YearTitleRoleNotes
1952 Tales of Adventure Episode: "The Moonstone - Part 1"
1956 The Wayne and Shuster Hour Episode: "Why Can't the Indians Be the Good Guys"
1956Woman AloneShort
1957 First Performance Episode: "Cousin Elva"
1956-1958 On Camera Mrs. ParkerSeries: "Billy's Burglar"
1958 Anne of Green Gables Mrs. Bell
1952-1960EncounterMrs Knowles/Janet Kane/PetraEpisodes: "Ordeal by Poison", "The Death Around Us", "An Enemy of the People"
1960 The Unforeseen Episode: "The New Member"
1964 ITV Play of the Week BessieEpisode: "The Rose Tattoo"
1964 Story Parade Mlle. GarneauEpisode: "Not For Every Eye"
1965 The Airbase Helen Arkwright3 episodes
1965 The Wednesday Play Mary Danziger/Lady Harriet FountainEpisodes: "The Pistol" and "And Did Those Feet?"
1967 Danger Island Mrs. Ridout5 episodes
1969 The Saint American LadyEpisode: "The Ex-King of Diamonds"
1969 McQueen Episode: "Vanity, Vanity"
1972 Norman Corwin Presents Episode: "The One-Man Group"
1982 Little Gloria... Happy at Last
1984 Police Academy Mrs. Lassard
1986 Check It Out! Nurse ErngoldEpisode: "Store Wars"
1986Whodunit?Garbage Lady
1986 Adderly Episode: "The Dancing Lesson"
1987 Anne of Avonlea Gossip at ballUncredited
1988 Friday's Curse Elder FlorenceEpisode: "The Quilt of Hathor"
1989 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Mrs. PickettEpisode: "Diamonds Aren't Forever"
1989 Looking for Miracles Chief's Secretary
1991 Dracula: The Series Miss RinghoffEpisode: "Sophie, Queen of the Night"
1992 Maniac Mansion DollyEpisode: "Misery Loves Company"
1992 Forever Knight AliceEpisode: "Hunters"
1994 Avonlea Mrs. MillingsEpisode: "Someone to Believe In"
1998 Real Kids, Real Adventures GrannyEpisode: "Rescue in the Tetons"
2000 Psi Factor Mary NelsonEpisode: "Chiaroscuro"
2000 The Wonderful World of Disney Operator #1Episode: "Mail to the Chief"
2002 Franklin's Magic Christmas Mrs. Collie
2002Salem Witch TrialsGoodwife Hawley
2003 The Blobheads Garage Sail LadyEpisode: "The Emperor's Garage Sale"
2005 This Is Wonderland Episode 2.4
2005 Capote Dorothy Sanderson
2006AbsolutionEunice Manning
2007 Still Small Voices Older Woman
2007The GatheringElderly Woman
2008 Rent-a-Goalie Episode: "Upstairs"
2008-9 The Jon Dore Television Show Ms. Adelaide St. Vincent / Old Lady at Fight2 episodes
2009 The Ron James Show Episode: 1.7
2011 Single White Spenny Photo Lady 1Episode: "Circumcision"

References

  1. Theatre Museum Canada (July 26, 2016), Araby Lockhart on Straw Hat Players (Part 5 of 13) , retrieved June 7, 2017
  2. Nothof 2016.
  3. Hollin, Dean (Summer 2011). "Araby Lockhart". Women with Vision. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
  4. Illidge 2005, pp. 122–123.

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