Gary Lockwood

Gary Lockwood is the actor who played Gary Mitchell in the first season episode . He filmed his scenes between Monday and Wednesday at Desilu Culver Stage 15, Stage 16, and Stage 17, participating in all eight days of production.
Lockwood is perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Frank Poole in the revered 1968 science fiction film .
Despite his one-time guest appearance in the Trek franchise, Lockwood participated in the 1997 documentary Trekkies, which chronicles the impact of Star Trek on the US culture.
== Early years ==
Lockwood was born John Gary Yurosek in Van Nuys, California and attended the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) on a football scholarship. He broke into show business as a stuntman and as a stand-in for actor Anthony Perkins in 1957, but he quickly moved to acting.
His first movie as an actor was (1959, featuring fellow Star Trek alumni Whit Bissell, Paul Comi, Frank Gorshin, Roy Jenson, and DeForest Kelley). That same year, Lockwood made his major television acting debut on an episode of Bronco, alongside Yvonne Craig. 
Lockwood made an uncredited appearance in (1960, starring Ray Walston). Lockwood's first credited film role came a year later in Elvis Presley's ; he again worked with Presley (and Yvonne Craig) in 1963's It Happened at the World's Fair. Pete Kellett, Bill Quinn and Guy Raymond also appeared in the latter film. Lockwood's early feature film credits also included (1961) and (1962, co-starring Liam Sullivan).
From 1963 through 1964, Lockwood was the star of , a show which, like Star Trek, was created by Gene Roddenberry. Many other performers who later worked on Star Trek appeared in this series, including Original Series regulars Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, and Leonard Nimoy, recurring Trek actress Majel Barrett, and such guest performers as Barbara Babcock, Joseph Campanella, James Gregory, Paul Lambert, Don Marshall, Oliver McGowan, Stephen Mines, Dallas Mitchell, Ricardo Montalban, William O'Connell, Leslie Parrish, Andrew Prine, Madlyn Rhue, Michael Strong, and Kenneth Tobey. 
Many episodes of The Lieutenant were directed by Vincent McEveety. McEveety later directed Lockwood in a two-part episode of Gunsmoke which aired in early 1965 and in (1968). The latter also featured Brooke Bundy, as well as fellow Original Series guest stars Barbara Luna and Morgan Woodward. Besides this, Robert Butler and both directed two episodes of The Lieutenant.
Lockwood's early television credits also included a guest spot on NBC , directed by Original Series director Marc Daniels. Lockwood then appeared in an episode of Perry Mason with Anthony Caruso, followed by an episode of Combat! with Jim Goodwin. In 1964, Lockwood made a guest appearance on , starring Original Series guest actors Robert Lansing and Frank Overton. He reprised his role from this episode the following year, then made a third appearance on the show in a different role. Nancy Kovack was also seen in Lockwood's first episode; Lee Meriwether appeared in the third.
In 1965, Lockwood acted alongside Sally Kellerman on an episode of and in a segment of Kraft Suspense Theatre entitled Connery's Hands (the latter also featured Francine Pyne). Lockwood and Kellerman later worked opposite each other on "Where No Man Has Gone Before" the same year.
== Later career ==
Following his iconic role in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lockwood has only acted in a handful of films. He acted alongside Graham Jarvis, Don Keefer, John McLiam, and Paul Winfield in (1970), which was followed by (1972, co-starring Michael Ansara and Madlyn Rhue. He then starred in a number of low-budget independent films, including Project: Kill (1976), Survival Zone (1983), and Night of the Scarecrow (1995, with Stephen Root).
The majority of Lockwood's career since the 1970s has been comprised of television guest appearances, made-for-TV movies, and other television projects. In 1971, he starred in Earth II, an unsold pilot for a proposed science fiction television series. Mariette Hartley starred in this production, as well. Lockwood also worked on the pilot for the short-lived series The Manhunter, along with , Lenore Kasdorf, and Tim O'Connor.
Among the television shows on which Lockwood guest-starred throughout the 1970s are Medical Center (with Barbara Baldavin and series regular James Daly), Mission: Impossible (with Jason Evers), Ironside (again working with Madlyn Rhue), (two episodes: one with William Schallert, the other directed by Russ Mayberry), The Bionic Woman (with Jeff Corey), and (which starred David Soul). Lockwood also made numerous appearances on , each time playing a different character. Aforementioned Original Series guest star Lee Meriwether was a regular on this series; others Lockwood worked with on the show include Ward Costello, Meg Foster, Ellen Geer, Vince Howard, William Lucking, Phillip Pine, Lawrence Pressman, the aforementioned Michael Strong, and director Corey Allen.
In the mid-1980s, Lockwood reunited with his Star Trek co-star William Shatner for two episodes of , with Shatner in the title role. James Darren was also a regular cast member at the time. Lockwood's first episode ("The Snow Game", 1984) was directed by Shatner himself, while the second episode ("To Kill a Cop", 1985) guest-starred Julie Cobb and Thalmus Rasulala.
Lockwood made four appearances each on and , portraying a different character in each episode. Veteran Star Trek director Vincent McEveety, whom Lockwood worked with many times during the 1960s, directed Lockwood in one episode from each series. On Simon & Simon, he also worked with fellow Trek performers Daphne Ashbrook, Michael Dante, and Kenneth Mars; on Murder, She Wrote, he acted with Theodore Bikel, Joanna Cassidy, Mary Crosby, Allan Miller, Robert O'Reilly, and William Windom.
Throughout the 1980s, Lockwood also made guest appearances on such programs as (directed by Kim Manners), Hart to Hart (with Andrew Robinson), and (with Bruce McGill). He also continued appearing in TV movies, including the 1983 drama Emergency Room, in which he worked with regular LeVar Burton as well as Warren Munson, John Vargas, Gary Faga, Biff Yeager, Michael Spound, and Gary Frank. He also had a supporting role in 1987's The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman along with William Campbell and Tom Schanley. 
Lockwood's most recent television work was a guest spot as US Chief Justice Earl Warren on in 1997, with Jeri Ryan, Dennis Creaghan and Conor O'Farrell.
== Additional credits ==
Other film and television projects not mentioned above in which Lockwood worked with other Star Trek alumni include:
=== Films ===
*The Wild Pair (1987) with Ellen Geer
=== TV guest appearances ===
* Bus Stop episode "Charlie" (1961, with John McLiam)
* The Young Rebels episode "To Kill a Traitor" (1971, with Alex Henteloff)
* The F.B.I. episode "The Animal" (1974, with Meg Foster)
* Cannon episode "Coffin Corner" (1975, with Richard Evans and Noble Willingham)
* Cannon episode "Cry Wolf" (1976, directed by Lawrence Dobkin)
* The Blue Knight episode "Bull's Eye" (1976, with Elisha Cook and Nicolas Coster)
* Police Story episode "Trash Detail, Front and Center" (1976, with Phillip Pine)
* The Quest episodes "The Longest Drive: Part 1" and "The Longest Drive: Part 2" (1976, with John Rubinstein)
* (1977, with Phillip Richard Allen, Earl Boen, and Ted Gehring)
* Police Story episode "End of the Lind" (1977, directed by Michael O'Herlihy)
* (1980, with Norman Stuart)
* (1980, with Ian Abercrombie and Frank Corsentino)
* The Fall Guy episode "Scavenger Hunt" (1982, directed by Cliff Bole)
* The Fall Guy episodes "Colt Breaks Out: Part 1", "Colt Breaks Out: Part 2" (both 1982) and "King of the Cowboys" (1984, with Michael Pataki)
* (1982, with John Chandler and William Windom)
* Matt Houston (1984, with Stefan Gierasch and Andrew Prine)
* Cover Up episode "The Million Dollar Face" (1984, with Henry Gibson and Andrew Prine)
* Finder of Lost Loves episode "Wayward Dreams" (1985, with Samantha Eggar)
* Trapper John, M.D. (1986, with Madge Sinclair)
* The Highwayman episode "Send in the Clones" (1988, with Michael Pataki)
=== TV movies ===
* Sally and Sam (1965, with Phyllis Douglas)
* The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One (1974, with Robert Foxworth, Harris Yulin, Lenore Kasdorf, Bill Zuckert, Whit Bissell, Arch Whiting, Dallas Mitchell, and James B. Sikking; directed by Marvin Chomsky)
* Kit Carson and the Mountain Men (1977, with Ike Eisenmann and Nick Ramus)
* The Ghost of Flight 401 (1978, with Alan Oppenheimer, Byron Morrow, Eugene Roche, Allan Miller, and Mark L. Taylor)
* (1979, starring Lindsay Wagner, with Brock Peters, Ray Young, and Gary Graham)
* Top of the Hill (1980, with Adrienne Barbeau and Chuck Hicks)
* Emergency Room (1983, with LeVar Burton, Warren Munson, John Vargas, Gary Faga, Biff Yeager, Michael Spound, and Gary Frank)
* (1985, starring Fred Williamson, with Nicolas Surovy)
* (1988, starring Lindsay Wagner, with William Campbell)
== External links ==
* – official web site
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