From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Alexander Lockwood May 5 1902 January 25 1990 was an American actor He appeared in numerous films and television shows throughout the 1930s to the 1980s Lockwood was born in Slezská Ostrava now Czech Republic in 1902 Lockwood began his acting career in film in 1938 appearing in films like Just Off Broadway Sherlock Holmes in Washington and Jigsaw during the 1940s During the 1950s and 1960s he appeared in films like The Wrong Man and The Invisible Boy with Richard Eyer He also appeared in The Story of Mankind and Monster on the Campus He also acted in films like The Tarnished Angels and Edge of Eternitywith Cornel Wilde and Cary Grant during the late 1950s During the 1960s he appeared in films like Beauty and the Beast with Joyce Taylor and Walk on the Wild Side with Laurence Harvey and The Monkeys Uncle with Tommy Kirk during the 1960s During the 1970s he appeared in films like Duel Family Plot and Close Encounters of the Third Kind Lockwood last acted in the film Romantic Comedy in 1983 Lockwood died in 1990 at the age of 87