[1] Lockwood was born in Slezská Ostrava, now Czech Republic, in 1902.

During the 1950s and 1960s he appeared in films like The Wrong Man and The Invisible Boy with Richard Eyer.

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 Monkey's 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.