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Calvin Lockhart is a Actor American born on 18 october 1934 at Nassau (Bahamas)
Calvin Lockhart (born Bert Cooper; October 18, 1934 – March 29, 2007) was a Bahamian–American stage and film actor. He was best known for his role as Biggie Smalls, a big-time gangster in the 1975 Warner Bros. film Let's Do It Again alongside Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby and Jimmie Walker .
Viennent ensuite quatre films sortis en 1970, dont le film américain Colère noire de Paul Bogart (avec Jeff Bridges et Rob Reiner) et le film britannique Léo le dernier de John Boorman (avec Marcello Mastroianni et Billie Whitelaw). Suivent quatorze autres films seulement, dont le film d'horreur britannique Le Mystère de la bête humaine de Paul Annett (1974, avec Peter Cushing et Anton Diffring), Predator 2 de Stephen Hopkins (1990, avec Danny Glover et Maria Conchita Alonso) et Sailor et Lula de David Lynch (1990, avec Nicolas Cage et Laura Dern). Signalons aussi deux réalisations de son compatriote (originaire comme lui des Bahamas) Sidney Poitier, dont Le Coup à refaire (1975, avec le réalisateur et Bill Cosby).
Son avant-dernier film, du même David Lynch, est Twin Peaks : Les Sept Derniers Jours de Laura Palmer (1992, avec Sheryl Lee et Moira Kelly). Réinstallé dans son pays d'origine, le dernier est Rain de Maria Govan (avec CCH Pounder et Irma P. Hall), film bahaméen sorti en 2008, l'année suivant sa mort (en 2007), de complications consécutives à un accident vasculaire cérébral.
Pour la télévision, il collabore à dix-sept séries à partir de 1966, dont Starsky et Hutch (un épisode diffusé en 1978). La dernière est le feuilleton Dynastie, avec sept épisodes diffusés en 1985 et 1986.
Au théâtre, Calvin Lockhart joue une première fois à Broadway (New York) en 1960, dans la pièce The Cool World de Warren Miller et Robert Rossen, aux côtés notamment de James Earl Jones, Raymond St. Jacques et Billy Dee Williams. Il revient à Broadway pour une seconde (donc dernière) prestation, dans la comédie musicale Reggae, représentée en 1980, avec Sheryl Lee Ralph.
En 1972, alors en résidence au sein de la Royal Shakespeare Company à Stratford-upon-Avon (Angleterre), il y interprète quatre pièces de William Shakespeare, dont Antoine et Cléopâtre (avec Patrick Godfrey, Janet Suzman et Patrick Stewart) et Titus Andronicus (avec Colin Blakely dans le rôle-titre, Patrick Godfrey et Janet Suzman).
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Birth name Bert Cooper
Nationality USA
Birth 18 october 1934 at Nassau (Bahamas)
Death 29 march 2007 (at 72 years) at Nassau (Bahamas)
Nationality USA
Birth 18 october 1934 at Nassau (Bahamas)
Death 29 march 2007 (at 72 years) at Nassau (Bahamas)
Calvin Lockhart (born Bert Cooper; October 18, 1934 – March 29, 2007) was a Bahamian–American stage and film actor. He was best known for his role as Biggie Smalls, a big-time gangster in the 1975 Warner Bros. film Let's Do It Again alongside Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby and Jimmie Walker .
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Partageant sa carrière entre l'Europe et les États-Unis, Calvin Lockhart (pseudonyme) débute au cinéma alors qu'il est de passage en Italie, dans le film italien Vierge créole de Lorenzo Ricciardi, sorti en 1961. Après une apparition comme figurant dans Cléopâtre de Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1963), il tourne six films sortis en 1968, dont le film britannique (d'autres suivront) Trio d'escrocs de Basil Dearden (avec Richard Attenborough et David Hemmings) et la co-production américano-britannique Le Dernier Train du Katanga de Jack Cardiff (avec Rod Taylor et Yvette Mimieux).Viennent ensuite quatre films sortis en 1970, dont le film américain Colère noire de Paul Bogart (avec Jeff Bridges et Rob Reiner) et le film britannique Léo le dernier de John Boorman (avec Marcello Mastroianni et Billie Whitelaw). Suivent quatorze autres films seulement, dont le film d'horreur britannique Le Mystère de la bête humaine de Paul Annett (1974, avec Peter Cushing et Anton Diffring), Predator 2 de Stephen Hopkins (1990, avec Danny Glover et Maria Conchita Alonso) et Sailor et Lula de David Lynch (1990, avec Nicolas Cage et Laura Dern). Signalons aussi deux réalisations de son compatriote (originaire comme lui des Bahamas) Sidney Poitier, dont Le Coup à refaire (1975, avec le réalisateur et Bill Cosby).
Son avant-dernier film, du même David Lynch, est Twin Peaks : Les Sept Derniers Jours de Laura Palmer (1992, avec Sheryl Lee et Moira Kelly). Réinstallé dans son pays d'origine, le dernier est Rain de Maria Govan (avec CCH Pounder et Irma P. Hall), film bahaméen sorti en 2008, l'année suivant sa mort (en 2007), de complications consécutives à un accident vasculaire cérébral.
Pour la télévision, il collabore à dix-sept séries à partir de 1966, dont Starsky et Hutch (un épisode diffusé en 1978). La dernière est le feuilleton Dynastie, avec sept épisodes diffusés en 1985 et 1986.
Au théâtre, Calvin Lockhart joue une première fois à Broadway (New York) en 1960, dans la pièce The Cool World de Warren Miller et Robert Rossen, aux côtés notamment de James Earl Jones, Raymond St. Jacques et Billy Dee Williams. Il revient à Broadway pour une seconde (donc dernière) prestation, dans la comédie musicale Reggae, représentée en 1980, avec Sheryl Lee Ralph.
En 1972, alors en résidence au sein de la Royal Shakespeare Company à Stratford-upon-Avon (Angleterre), il y interprète quatre pièces de William Shakespeare, dont Antoine et Cléopâtre (avec Patrick Godfrey, Janet Suzman et Patrick Stewart) et Titus Andronicus (avec Colin Blakely dans le rôle-titre, Patrick Godfrey et Janet Suzman).
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, 2h15Directed by David Lynch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality
Actors Sheryl Lee, Moira Kelly, David Bowie, Dana Ashbrook, Chris Isaak, Harry Dean Stanton
Roles The Electrician
Rating73%
FBI Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole (David Lynch) sends Agents Chester Desmond (Chris Isaak) and Sam Stanley (Kiefer Sutherland) to investigate the mysterious murder of Teresa Banks in the town of Deer Meadow. They receive mysterious clues from Lil the dancer, most of which Desmond later explain to Sam. However he declines to explain the blue rose pinned to Lil's red dress. After difficulty with the local sheriff's department, Desmond and Stanley view Teresa's body at the morgue. They realize that her ring is missing and the letter "T" has been placed under her fingernail. The Agents question the town residents about Teresa, but come up with few clues. Stanley leaves Deer Meadow, while Desmond remains behind. Desmond discovers Teresa's missing ring under a trailer. As he reaches out to it, the screen fades to black.
Predator 2 (1990)
, 1h48Directed by Stephen Hopkins
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Action, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Children's films, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Kevin Peter Hall, Bill Paxton, María Conchita Alonso, Rubén Blades
Roles King Willie
Rating62%
In 1997, Los Angeles is suffering from both a heat wave and a turf war between heavily armed Colombian and Jamaican drug cartels. A Predator watches a shootout between the police and Colombians, observing as Lieutenant Michael Harrigan charges into the firefight to rescue two wounded officers and drive the Colombians back into their hideout. While the police are ordered to wait for a federal task force to arrive on the scene, the Predator crashes through a skylight and attacks the Colombians. Harrigan and his police detectives Leona Cantrell and Danny Archuleta enter against orders and find the Colombians have been slaughtered. Harrigan pursues the gang leader onto the roof and shoots him, catching a glimpse of the camouflaged Predator's silhouette, but dismissing him as an effect of the heat. Harrigan is rebuked by his superiors for his disobedience. He is also introduced to Special Agent Peter Keyes, leader of the task force who are purportedly investigating the cartels, and Detective Jerry Lambert, the newest member of Harrigan's team.
Wild at Heart (1990)
, 2h4Directed by David Lynch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Crispin Glover, Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini
Roles Reggie
Rating71%
Lovers Lula and Sailor are separated after he is jailed for killing a man who attacked him with a knife; the assailant, Bobby Ray Lemon, was hired by Lula's mother, Marietta Fortune. Upon Sailor's release, Lula picks him up at the prison where she hands him his snakeskin jacket. They go to a hotel where she reserved a room, make love and go to see the speed metal band Powermad. At the club, Sailor gets into a fight with a man who flirts with Lula, and then leads the band in a rendition of Elvis Presley's "Love Me". Later, back in the room, after making love again, Sailor and Lula finally decide to run away to California, breaking Sailor's parole. Marietta arranges for private detective Johnnie Farragut – her on-off boyfriend – to find them and bring them back. Unbeknownst to Farragut, however, Marietta also hires gangster Marcellus Santos to track them, and kill Sailor. Santos's minions capture and kill Farragut, sending Marietta into a guilt-fueled psychosis.
Coming to America (1988)
, 1h56Directed by John Landis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Monde imaginaire
Actors Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Shari Headley, James Earl Jones, Madge Sinclair, John Amos
Roles Colonel Izzi
Rating70%
Akeem Joffer, the crown prince to the throne of the wealthy African nation of Zamunda, lives a pampered lifestyle with every daily facet performed by servants. Akeem has become fed up with this and wishes to do more for himself. The final straw comes when his parents, King Jaffe and Queen Aeoleon, present him with an arranged bride-to-be named Imani Izzi, whom he has never met and who has been trained to obey Akeem's every command. Akeem concocts a plan to travel to the United States to find an intelligent, independent-minded woman he can both love and respect, and who will love Akeem for who he is and not for his wealth and social status as a prince. Akeem and his best friend/personal aide, Semmi, flip a coin to decide between going to either Los Angeles or New York City, and end up going to New York City. They end up in the borough of Queens and rent a run-down apartment in the neighborhood of Long Island City, passing themselves off as poor foreign students. They begin working at a local fast food restaurant called McDowell's—an obvious ripoff of McDonald's—owned by widower Cleo McDowell and his two daughters, Lisa and Patrice.
The Baltimore Bullet (1980)
, 1h43Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Sports films
Actors James Coburn, Bruce Boxleitner, Omar Sharif, Ronee Blakley, Jack O'Halloran, Michael Lerner
Roles Snow White
Rating59%
Nick Casey, whose nickname is the "Baltimore Bullet," is a legendary pool player whose best days are behind him. He decides to teach everything he knows to a young up-and-comer, Billie Joe Robbins, all leading up to a big winner-take-all match between the two of them.
Let's Do It Again (1975)
, 1h50Directed by Sidney Poitier
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Buddy films
Actors Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, John Amos, Ossie Davis, Jimmie Walker
Roles Biggie Smalls
Rating66%
Set in Atlanta, it follows Clyde Williams (Poitier) and Billy Foster (Cosby) as a pair of blue-collar workers who are trying to raise funds for the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. They decide to rig a boxing match in New Orleans. They use hypnotism to convince underdog boxer Bootney Farnsworth (Jimmie Walker) that he is a highly skilled prize fighter. He fights and defeats the champion, 40th Street Black (Rodolphus Lee Hayden). Williams and Foster clean up after betting Farnsworth. The pair return home, and all is fine until the gangsters who lost money betting on the other guy figure out the scam and come to Atlanta, to get the pair to do it again...or be killed.
Honeybaby, Honeybaby (1974)
, 1h29Directed by Michael Schultz
Origin USA
Genres Action
Actors Diana Sands, Calvin Lockhart, Ada "Bricktop" Smith
Roles Liv
Rating45%
Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
, 1h44Directed by Sidney Poitier
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, Harry Belafonte, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor
Roles Silky Slim
Rating65%
Steve Jackson (Sidney Poitier), a blue-collar worker at a steel mill, has just begun a two-weeks-long vacation. He is convinced by his friend Wardell Franklin (Bill Cosby) to go to a party that Saturday night at Madam Zenobia's, an uptown nightclub.
The Beast Must Die (1974)
, 1h33Origin United-kingdom
Genres Action, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Anton Diffring, Calvin Lockhart, Charles Gray, Ciaran Madden, Marlene Clark, Michael Gambon
Roles Tom Newcliffe
Rating55%
The millionaire Tom Newcliffe (Calvin Lockhart) invites a group of people to spend some time in his rural English mansion, along with his wife Caroline (Marlene Clark) where he reveals that one of them is a werewolf, and therefore must be killed. The group is composed of:
Hung Up (1973)
Directed by Édouard Luntz
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Patricia Gozzi, Calvin Lockhart, Julie Dassin, José Lewgoy, Jany Holt
Roles Pablo
Rating56%
Une femme, issue d'une famille bourgeoise, épouse un homme sans amour. Elle se souvient (ou rêve?) d'une vie d'aventures et de contrebandiers qui détournent des bateaux pendant la nuit. Elle se fait enlever par le chef de la bande ennemie, dont elle tombe amoureuse.
Hung Up (1973)
, 1h20Directed by Édouard Luntz, Claude Othnin-Girard
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Actors Patricia Gozzi, Calvin Lockhart, Julie Dassin, Jany Holt, José Lewgoy
Roles Pablo
Rating56%
Une femme, issue d'une famille bourgeoise, épouse un homme sans amour. Elle se souvient (ou rêve?) d'une vie d'aventures et de contrebandiers qui détournent des bateaux pendant la nuit. Elle se fait enlever par le chef de la bande ennemie, dont elle tombe amoureuse.
Melinda (1972)
, 1h49Directed by Hugh A. Robertson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Calvin Lockhart, Rosalind Cash, Vonetta McGee, Paul Stevens, Rockne Tarkington, Ross Hagen
Roles Frankie J. Parker
Rating58%
Frankie J. Parker is a Los Angeles radio disc jockey. In his spare time, Frankie takes karate lessons at a school run by his friend Charles Atkins.
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
, 1h37Directed by Ossie Davis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Raymond St. Jacques, Godfrey Cambridge, Calvin Lockhart, Judy Pace, Redd Foxx, John Anderson
Roles Rev. Deke O'Malley
Rating63%
Reverend Deke O'Malley (Calvin Lockhart) arrives to fanfare at a rally in Harlem. Meanwhile, two Harlem detectives, Gravedigger Jones (Godfrey Cambridge) and "Coffin" Ed Johnson (Raymond St. Jacques) catch a pickpocket, Early Riser, among the crowd and run him off. O'Malley is selling shares in a Back-to-Africa movement ship to be called The Black Beauty. Uncle Budd (Redd Foxx) doesn't have the $100 minimum down payment, but O'Malley accepts his $20 for a share. Some men from the District Attorney's office arrive and ask O'Malley to come downtown. O'Malley agrees to leave as several masked gunman jump out a meat truck and begin shooting. They steal $87,000 in cash from the back of an armored car. O'Malley and two assistants chase the meat truck in the armored car; the detectives chase them both in their car. A bale of cotton falls out of the during the chase. The detectives lose them avoiding some youngsters in the street. Riser is hit by the meat truck while fleeing a pickpocketing attempt, which causes the truck and armored car to crash.
Halls of Anger (1970)
, 1h36Directed by Paul Bogart
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education
Actors Calvin Lockhart, Jeff Bridges, Janet MacLachlan, Edward Asnere, Rob Reiner, Ta-Tanisha
Roles Quincy Davis
Rating59%
A predominantly black high school is integrated by white students and trouble follows.
Leo the Last (1970)
, 1h44Directed by John Boorman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Billie Whitelaw, Louis Gossett Jr., Calvin Lockhart, Graham Crowden, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Roles Pimp Roscoe
Rating58%
The ennui-afflicted heir to a deposed European throne returns to his father's house in West London to find that the neighbourhood has become a slum. An ornithologist ill at ease with others, he finds his spy-glass wandering from birds to observe his neighbours. Strictly an observer at first, he increasingly becomes agitated as their lives are blighted by violence, poverty, and injustice. In particular he is moved by the plight of young Salambo Mardi and her family, beset by the rapist shopkeeper Kowalski and the pimp Jasper.