# Araby Lockhart

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.

## 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. 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. While at Hart House, she met John Gray, an aspiring writer and actor, and they married in 1952.
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 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

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 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" |
| 1956 | Woman Alone | | Short |
| 1957 | First Performance | | Episode: "Cousin Elva" |
| 1956-1958 | On Camera | Mrs. Parker | Series: "Billy's Burglar" |
| 1958 | Anne of Green Gables | Mrs. Bell | |
| 1952-1960 | Encounter | Mrs Knowles/Janet Kane/Petra | Episodes: "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 | Bessie | Episode: "The Rose Tattoo" |
| 1964 | Story Parade | Mlle. Garneau | Episode: "Not For Every Eye" |
| 1965 | The Airbase | Helen Arkwright | 3 episodes |
| 1965 | The Wednesday Play | Mary Danziger/Lady Harriet Fountain | Episodes: "The Pistol" and "And Did Those Feet?" |
| 1967 | Danger Island | Mrs. Ridout | 5 episodes |
| 1969 | The Saint | American Lady | Episode: "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 Erngold | Episode: "Store Wars" |
| 1986 | Whodunit? | Garbage Lady | |
| 1986 | Adderly | | Episode: "The Dancing Lesson" |
| 1987 | Anne of Avonlea | Gossip at ball | Uncredited |
| 1988 | Friday's Curse | Elder Florence | Episode: "The Quilt of Hathor" |
| 1989 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Mrs. Pickett | Episode: "Diamonds Aren't Forever" |
| 1989 | Looking for Miracles | Chief's Secretary | |
| 1991 | Dracula: The Series | Miss Ringhoff | Episode: "Sophie, Queen of the Night" |
| 1992 | Maniac Mansion | Dolly | Episode: "Misery Loves Company" |
| 1992 | Forever Knight | Alice | Episode: "Hunters" |
| 1994 | Avonlea | Mrs. Millings | Episode: "Someone to Believe In" |
| 1998 | Real Kids, Real Adventures | Granny | Episode: "Rescue in the Tetons" |
| 2000 | Psi Factor | Mary Nelson | Episode: "Chiaroscuro" |
| 2000 | The Wonderful World of Disney | Operator #1 | Episode: "Mail to the Chief" |
| 2002 | Franklin's Magic Christmas | Mrs. Collie | |
| 2002 | Salem Witch Trials | Goodwife Hawley | |
| 2005 | This Is Wonderland | | Episode 2.4 |
| 2005 | Capote | Dorothy Sanderson | |
| 2006 | Absolution | Eunice Manning | |
| 2007 | Still Small Voices | Older Woman | |
| 2007 | The Gathering | Elderly Woman | |
| 2008 | Rent-a-Goalie | | Episode: "Upstairs" |
| 2008-9 | The Jon Dore Television Show | Ms. Adelaide St. Vincent / Old Lady at Fight | 2 episodes |
| 2009 | The Ron James Show | | Episode: 1.7 |
| 2011 | Single White Spenny | Photo Lady 1 | Episode: "Circumcision" |