12 Facts About Calvin Lockhart

Calvin Lockhart was born Bert McClossy Cooper, the youngest of eight children in Nassau, Bahamas.

Calvin Lockhart moved to New York City, New York, when he was 18.

Calvin Lockhart spent one year at the Cooper Union School of Engineering, then left to pursue an acting career.

Calvin Lockhart drove a taxi and operated a carpentry business in the borough of Queens while trying to establish a career as an actor.

In 1960, Calvin Lockhart made his Broadway debut, playing a gang leader in The Cool World, which closed after just two performances.

Calvin Lockhart then traveled to Italy and formed his own theater company in which he both acted and directed, before moving to West Germany and then England, where he landed various roles on British television and small roles in films such as 1968's A Dandy in Aspic and Salt and Pepper.

Calvin Lockhart starred in Cotton Comes to Harlem as the Reverend Deke O'Malley.

In 1974, Calvin Lockhart became an actor-in-residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.

Calvin Lockhart is familiar to horror film fans after his performance as the millionaire big-game hunter in The Beast Must Die.

Calvin Lockhart headed a Los Angeles campaign called "Getting Off Drugs," an anti-drug effort to get teenagers off drugs in the late 1970s.

Calvin Lockhart returned to the Bahamas in the late 1990s and worked as a director on several productions of the Freeport Players Guild.

Calvin Lockhart died on March 29,2007, in a Nassau hospital from stroke-related complications, at the age of 72.