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Calvin Lockhart, Stage and Film Actor

Calvin Lockhart, Stage and Film Actor
Calvin Lockhart, Stage and Film Actor

Calvin Lockhart joined the ancestors (Oct 18, 1934 - Mar 29, 2007). Bahamian–American stage/film actor, best known for his role as “Biggie Smalls”, a big-time gangster in the 1975 Warner Bros. film ‘Let's Do It Again’ alongside Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby and Jimmie Walker.He also starred in Ossie Davis's ‘Cotton Comes to Harlem’ (1970) as the “Reverend Deke O'Malley”. In 1974 he became an actor-in-residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. In the 1980s he was a guest star for 7 episodes in the prime-time soap opera ‘Dynasty’, playing “Jonathan Lake”, a love interest of the character “Dominique Deveraux” played by Diahann Carroll.

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