Birth Date: | 1907 6, mf=yes |
Birth Place: | Bristol, England |
Death Place: | Yarmouth,Maine,USA |
Spouse: | Betty Lockwood 1960 - 2002 |
Years Active: | 1923-1946 |
Roy Lockwood, (8 June 1907 to 25 April 2002) was a pioneering British film, television and radio director.[1] His work included directing the radio soap opera Valiant Lady.[2]
In 1941, Lockwood left the British Press Service and joined the production staff of NBC in New York City.[3] He joined the staff of the Blue Network as a producer in 1942.[4]
Later, he was head of BBC "productions from America to Britain," which he left to become producer of Light of the World for General Mills on CBS in 1945.[5] While with the BBC, his work included producing The War in the Pacific[6] and a series of broadcasts about United States military forces from their beginnings to what was then the present time.[7]
Lockwood was a producer for CBS-TV. His work there included producing Resources for Freedom in 1954.[8]
In 1955, Lockwood became a producer-director for Robert Lawrence Productions in New York.[9]