Biography
Calvin Lockhart was a Bahamian actor born Bert McClossy Cooper in Nassau on 18 October 1934. He moved to New York as a teenager, briefly attended the Cooper Union School of Engineering, and later studied acting with Uta Hagen. He made his Broadway debut in 1960 in The Cool World.
Lockhart appeared in films from the late 1960s, including Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) as Rev. Deke O'Malley, The Beast Must Die (1974), Let's Do It Again (1975) as Biggie Smalls, Coming to America (1988) as Colonel Izzi, Predator 2 (1990) as King Willie, and David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990) as Reggie and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) as The Electrician. He also worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1970s and had television roles in series such as Dynasty.
He died in Nassau on 29 March 2007.
