Alexander Lockwood
Nascimento : 1902-05-05, Polish Ostrava, Silesia, Austria-Hungary [now Ostrava, Czech Republic]
Morte : 1990-01-25
História
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Alexander Lockwood (May 5, 1902 – January 25, 1990) was an American actor. He appeared in numerous films and television shows throughout the 1930s to the 1980s.
Lockwood was born in Slezská Ostrava, now Czech Republic, in 1902. Lockwood began his acting career in film in 1938, appearing in films like Just Off Broadway, Sherlock Holmes in Washington and Jigsaw during the 1940s. During the 1950s and 1960s he appeared in films like The Wrong Man and The Invisible Boy with Richard Eyer. He also appeared in The Story of Mankind and Monster on the Campus. He also acted in films like The Tarnished Angels and Edge of Eternitywith Cornel Wilde and Cary Grant during the late 1950s. During the 1960s he appeared in films like Beauty and the Beast with Joyce Taylor and Walk on the Wild Side with Laurence Harvey and The Monkey's Uncle with Tommy Kirk during the 1960s. During the 1970s he appeared in films like Duel, Family Plot and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Lockwood last acted in the film Romantic Comedy in 1983.
Lockwood died in 1990 at the age of 87.
Minister
Dois colaboradores de dramaturgia, que durante um longo período trabalharam como associados, sofrem de uma paixão não correspondida.
Elderly Man
Harvey and Zoey, two tourists in Israel, discover an ancient scroll about Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the command from God to free his people from slavery, but Moses keeps getting all the credit.
Implantee
Roy Neary, um empregado de uma companhia elétrica, é profundamente marcado pelo encontro com um OVNI, que lhe deixa uma queimadura na mão e o faz ficar obcecado com o fenómeno. Ao mesmo tempo que se sucedem diversos acontecimentos misteriosos pelo mundo, e que as autoridades dos EUA se mobilizam para um grande evento extraterrestre que querem que permaneça secreto, Roy e outras pessoas começam a ser inexplicavelmente atraídas para uma montanha no Wyomming, de onde todos os residentes são evacuados pelo Governo.
Parson
Falsa medium e seu amante, um taxista psicopata, planejam roubar uma grande quantia em dinheiro de uma idosa, alegando ter encontrado seu sobrinho há anos desaparecido. Sem saber, os trambiqueiros encontram o rapaz, agora como um esperto ourives, e que está envolvido com um sequestro. É o último filme do Mestre do Suspense Alfred Hitchcock
Landlord (uncredited)
Após o assassinato de um amigo em comum, o aspirante a vigarista Johnny Hooker junta-se ao velho Henry Gondorff para se vingar de Doyle Lonnega, o cruel chefe responsável pelo crime. Hooker e Gondorff implementam um plano elaborado para que Lonnegan não descubra que está sendo enganado. O grande golpe começa a se desenrolar, mas as coisas não saem como planejaram e a destemida dupla faz improvisações de última hora.
Old Man in Car
Davis Mann é um simples trabalhador, igual a milhões de outros, um homem comum que cruza o deserto para um compromisso de negócios. Sua vida transcorre sem problemas, até o momento em que ele tenta ultrapassar um lento caminhão-tanque. Sem nenhum motivo aparente, o motorista do caminhão começa a fazer um perigoso jogo de gato e rato na estrada, tentando tirar David de seu caminho. Em clima de crescente suspense, David aos poucos percebe que o caminhoneiro não está para brincadeiras: ele quer, a todo custo, assassinar o pacato homem. Qual seria o motivo de tanto ódio e violência?
Man
A low-budget re-telling of the classic fairy tale.
Jim Kendon
Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the Grand Canyon. His efforts leads to the killer fleeing with Janice as a hostage and a chase by car and helicopter lead to a climax on a miner's bucket on cables a mile above the canyon floor.
Judge Anson B. Flynn (uncredited)
O executivo publicitário Roger O. Thornhill é confundido como um agente do governo por um grupo de espiões. A partir daí, envolve-se numa série de desventuras incríveis e passa a ser perseguido tanto pelo governo quanto pelos espiões por todo os Estados Unidos.
Prof. Gilbert Howard
A college paleontology professor acquires a newly discovered specimen of a coelecanth, but while examining it, he is accidentally exposed to its blood, and finds himself periodically turning into a murderous Neanderthal man.
Minor Role (uncredited)
Ao capitão de um submarino afundado pelos japoneses durante a WW2 finalmente é dada a chance de ser capitão de outro submarino após um ano de trabalho burocrático. Sua determinação, obcecado por vingança contra o destruidor que afundou seu navio anterior, coloca sua nova tripulação em um perigo desnecessário. E causa atrito com seu primeiro oficial e equipe.
Sam Hagood
Na década de 1930, o outrora grande piloto da Primeira Guerra Mundial Roger Shumann atua como um piloto audacioso em shows de acrobacias aéreas, enquanto sua esposa, LaVerne, trabalha como para-quedista. Quando o repórter de jornal Burke Devlin chega para fazer uma história sobre o ato dos Shumanns, ele rapidamente se apaixona pela bela, e negligenciada, LaVerne.
Arthur Kelvaney
A Super Computer plans world domination with the help of Robbie the robot and a 10 year old boy who is the son the computer's inventor.
Bert - the New Sheriff
In this western, a sheriff attempts to exact his revenge against the desperadoes who cost him his job. The former lawman successfully gets rid of the bad hombres and clears his name.
Paul Vernon
After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; murder results. Top defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly...
Model Agency Man (uncredited)
In this Screenliner short, New York City police detectives investigate the case of a missing girl, whose clothes are found on a bridge. Was it a suicide, was she murdered, or is this a hoax?
Harry Nichols
New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy is working hard on investigation about a series of murders related to an extremist group.
Taxi Driver
Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins keeping company with known Nazi functionaries, notably the sinister Mr. Peter. Suspecting that his own wife may be the elusive “Madame Spy” wanted by American authorities, Bannister is in for quite a few surprises.
Count Edmond Telmachio
Private detective Michael Shayne is on the case again, but this time he's stuck on a jury for a murder trial. So, what does he do? Why, he skips out on sequestration in order to solve the case himself!
Smith
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
Conway
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.
Jerry's Flight Instructor
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
