 Edwin Eugene Lockhart was born July 18, 1891, in London, Ontario, Canada, to John and Ellen Mary Lockhart. An actor, singer, and director Lockhart was a veteran of stage, radio, film, and television. His career spanned more than sixty years, and he had more than three hundred movie credits to his name. Lockhart made his professional debut at the age of six with his father in the Kilties Band, a then well-known Scottish band and choir based in Belleville, Ontario. The Lockhearts accompanied the band to England, where Gene studied at Brompton Oratory School in London, while his father toured. When they returned to Canada, Gene began singing in concerts, often in the same program as Beatrice Lilly. At age twenty-five, Lockhart moved to New York, at the encouragement of his mother, to pursue an acting career. He made his Broadway debut in September, 1917, as Gustav, in the musical The Riviera Girl. He also began writing for stage. His first production was the Pierrot Players, in which he also starred. A song from that, The World is Waiting for the Sunrise, became a popular ballad. His first big break as a dramatic actor was in 1923, in Lola Volmer's Sun Up, first in a Greenwich Village little theatre, and then in a larger house for an additional two years. While performing in Sun Up, he married Kathleen Arthur in 1924, and they had a daughter, June, a year later. He had a long-stage career acting and directing. Some of his notable appearances include Uncle Sid in Awe Wilderness in 1933, Fortesque in Virginia in 1937, and as Willie Lohman in the 1949 version of Death of a Salesman. He also directed several others, including the revival of The Warrior's Husband. Additionally, he wrote articles for theatrical magazines, a weekly column for a Canadian publication, and taught drama at the Junior League and the Juilliard Musical Foundation. In 1930, he and his wife starred in a syndicated radio series Abroad with the Lockhearts, and they often appeared together on radio and in film over the next two decades. The couple had agreed not to let acting separate them, and for several years, both declined offers from Hollywood, while the other was still under contract in New York. Among his many radio credits include Lux Radio Theatre, Tonight in Hollywood, Suspense, The Nebs, Family Theatre, Cavalcade of America, and The Forty Million. Lockhart may be best remembered for his film appearances. His debut was in the silent picture Smiling Through in 1922, and his first sound film was in By Your Leave in 1934. Some of his best-known roles were as Bob Cratchit in the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol, and in the 1940s he was in His Girl Friday, Leave Her to Heaven, Foxes of Harrow, Miracle on 34th Street, and Joan of Arc. Also in Man in the Grey Flannel suit and in Carousel, both in 1956. And for the role of the treacherous and formant Regis in the 1938 movie Al Gears, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Gene Lockhart died unexpectedly of a heart attack March 31st, 1957, in Santa Monica, California at the age of 65. He had been filming an episode of the television series Twentieth Century Fox Hour called The Great American Hoax only a few hours earlier. That evening he complained of being unable to sleep because of severe pain, and he was taken to St. John's Hospital. He died shortly afterwards with his wife Kathleen and daughter June at his side. He was honored with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his film work and television work in 1960. Information for this biography was taken from The Detroit Free Press, from The Los Angeles Times, from the Internet Movie Database, and from Wikipedia. For Old Time Radio Researchers, I'm your announcer Patrick Andre. Thank you for listening.