page_title: Ormer Locklear
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Ormer Locklear / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Pilot Ormer Locklear showing actress Viola Dana how he crawled back along the tail of his aircraft to perform midair feats, on page 51 of the August 21, 1920 Exhibitors Herald.
context_page_description: Ormer Leslie "Lock" Locklear was an American daredevil stunt pilot and film actor.
  His popular flying circus caught the attention of Hollywood, and he starred in The Great Air Robbery, a screenplay about the mid-air piracy of a US airmail plane. In his next film, The Skywayman, the plane crashed during a climactic dive, when the lighting team supposedly failed to douse the lights on cue, so Locklear was dazzled and flew blindly into the ground, dying instantly with his co-pilot Milton "Skeets" Elliott. The scene remained on the film.
context_section_description: Locklear married Ruby Graves in 1915. The marriage was largely unhappy as Graves and Locklear had vastly different personalities. They  separated in 1919 after Locklear moved to Los Angeles to pursue a film career. Despite the marriage being an unhappy one, Graves refused to grant Locklear a divorce. They remained legally married until Locklear's death.
  While separated from Graves, Locklear met widowed silent film actress
  Viola Dana. They began a relationship and were engaged at the time of Locklear's death. Dana witnessed the plane crash that killed Locklear. She was so traumatized by the event that she refused to fly for the next 25 years. In 1980, Dana recalled her relationship with Locklear and also spoke about his fatal crash in the documentary Hollywood.
caption: Ormer Locklear and Viola Dana
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