Daniel Joseph Lockin was an American actor and dancer who appeared on stage, television, and film.
19 Facts About Danny Lockin
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Danny Lockin began dancing professionally at area fairs at the age of eight.
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Danny Lockin's act co-starred Neal Reynolds, an African American boy with whom he would tap dance, tell jokes, pantomime, and do impressions of famous people.
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Danny Lockin was cast in leading juvenile roles in regional productions of Gypsy: A Musical Fable, The Music Man, and Time for Everything.
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Danny Lockin had an early, and uncredited, role as one of Dainty June's farm boys in the 1962 film version of Gypsy.
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Danny Lockin appeared in the play Morning Sun in October 1963 with Patricia Neway and Bert Convy, but it closed after nine performances.
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Danny Lockin made his Broadway debut on April 8,1964, in West Side Story in New York City in the role of Gee-Tar, and appeared as an actor and dancer in a regional production of Take Me Along.
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Danny Lockin had a number of guest-star and incidental roles on television as well.
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Danny Lockin appeared on Father of the Bride, Dr Kildare, Mr Novak, My Three Sons, and the Sid Caesar Show.
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Danny Lockin did a screen test for the 1965 film version of The Sound of Music, but did not get the part.
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Danny Lockin underwent 13 screen tests before he got the part.
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Danny Lockin later said that doing the film was "the dream of my life".
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Danny Lockin felt a strong need to compete with the film's director, legendary dancer Gene Kelly.
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Danny Lockin stayed with the tour until it ended; at which point, with his career in decline due to substance abuse issues, Lockin moved into his mother's apartment in Anaheim.
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Around 1974, Danny Lockin began assisting his mother in running the Jean Danny Lockin Dance Studio.
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The studio closed in early 1977, and Danny Lockin began teaching at another dance studio.
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Danny Lockin left the bar with a slight, 34-year-old unemployed medical clerk, Charles Leslie Hopkins.
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Danny Lockin had been stabbed 100 times, and bled to death.
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Danny Lockin was interred at Westminster Memorial Park cemetery in Westminster, California.