---
name: "John Lockert"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-lockert"
fi1m_id: "john-lockert"
imdb_id: "nm0516833"
tmdb_id: 119096
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "23 February 1898"
died: "14 May 1944"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 65
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-25T03:21:33.876406+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# John Lockert

## Identity

John Lockert

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-lockert
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-lockert
- **IMDb ID:** nm0516833
- **TMDB ID:** 119096
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516833/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/119096

Editor. Born 23 February 1898 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Died 14 May 1944.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 23 February 1898, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- **Died:** 14 May 1944
- **Active:** 1939–1943
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 68 (1), 1940s 62 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516833/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/119096

## Biography

John Lockert was an American film editor active in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s. He worked primarily for RKO Radio Pictures, editing features across genres including adventure, horror, comedy and Westerns.

His credits include the adventure film *Gunga Din* (1939), directed by George Stevens, and two productions by Val Lewton: *The Seventh Victim* (1943) and *The Ghost Ship* (1943). Other notable work encompasses *High Flyers* (1937), *The Great Gildersleeve* (1942) and *Youth Runs Wild* (1944). He had earlier credits as an actor and in continuity.

Lockert was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1898 and died in Los Angeles, California, in 1944.

*Sources: imdb.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Seventh Victim* (1943), Fi1m 62, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-seventh-victim.md)
- *Gunga Din* (1939), Fi1m 68, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/gunga-din.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Youth Runs Wild* (1944), Editor
- *The Ghost Ship* (1943), Editor
- *The Seventh Victim* (1943), Editor — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/the-seventh-victim.md)
- *Sagebrush Law* (1943), Editor
- *The Great Gildersleeve* (1942), Editor
- *Home Work* (1942), Editor
- *He Asked for It* (1940), Editor
- *Truth Aches* (1939), Editor
- *Sagebrush Serenade* (1939), Editor
- *Home Boner* (1939), Editor
- *Gunga Din* (1939), Editor — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/gunga-din.md)
- *High Flyers* (1937), Editor
- *Forty Naughty Girls* (1937), Editor
- *On Again—Off Again* (1937), Editor
- *Dumb's the Word* (1937), Editor
- *We're on the Jury* (1937), Editor
- *The Plot Thickens* (1936), Editor
- *Silly Billies* (1936), Editor
- *The Rainmakers* (1935), Editor
- *The Nitwits* (1935), Editor
- *Ferry-Go-Round* (1934), Editor
- *Happy Days* (1929), as Chorus Man

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