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.

Araby Lockhart
Born (1926-12-04) December 4, 1926
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
OccupationActor
Spouse(s)John Gray

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.[1] 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.[2] While at Hart House, she met John Gray, an aspiring writer and actor, and they married in 1952.[3]

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"

Bibliography

"Araby Lockhart." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 7 June 2017. <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516863/?ref_=nm_wrk>.

Nothof, Anne. "Straw Hat Players." Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia. N.p., 14 Sept. 2016. Web. 7 June 2017. <http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Straw%20Hat%20Players>.

"Obituary of John Gray." The Globe and Mail. N.p., 04 Mar. 2017. Web. 7 June 2017.

References/Notes and references

  1. Theatre Museum Canada (2016-07-26), Araby Lockhart on Straw Hat Players (Part 5 of 13), retrieved 2017-06-07
  2. Nothof, Anne. "Straw Hat Players." Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia. N.p., 14 Sept. 2016. Web. 7 June 2017. <http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Straw%20Hat%20Players>.
  3. Hollin, Dean (Summer 2011). "Araby Lockhart". Women with Vision. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
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