Appeared in the "Star Trek" (1966) pilot episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and has since appeared at many of the "Star Trek" conventions. He recently attended the Trek Expo in Tulsa, Oklahoma (2002).
Attended UCLA on a football scholarship.
Best remembered today as astronaut Frank Poole in the Stanley Kubrick futuristic epic 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
Broke into the entertainment field as a stunt man and stand-in for actor Anthony Perkins.
Father of Samantha Lockwood.
Friend of actor Billy Lockwood.
Got his name from legendary director Joshua Logan, whose middle name is Lockwood, because no one could pronounce Gary's real last name: Yurosek. A generation later his daughter actress Samantha Lockwood is best friends with actor Billy Lockwood, who is related to the very man who gave Gary his first job!.
Ironically, Lockwood's Frank Poole character (from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)) learns about Star Trek's success in the novel "3001: A Final Oddyssey".
One of his most memorable TV roles, and one of the most memorable on the series, was on a 1969 episode of "Love, American Style" (1969) in which he plays a guy who is told his mouth is too small. To test it out, he accidentally wraps his mouth around a doorknob and gets stuck! His co-star in that episode was none other than his wife at the time, Stefanie Powers.
Reliable over the years for playing boyish-faced bullies in westerns and police dramas.
While appearing in "Star Trek" (1966)'s second pilot episode, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", he was required to wear heavy silver contact lenses for his character. Lockwood had difficulty wearing the lenses as they were heavy, thick, and only had one tiny hole for him to see through. He claimed afterward that the lenses were to blame for his later vision problems.