Ormer Locklear
Ormer Leslie "Lock" Locklear (October 28, 1891 – August 2, 1920) was an American daredevil stunt pilot and film actor.
Ormer Locklear | |
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Locklear in 1919 | |
| Born | Ormer Leslie Locklear October 28, 1891 Greenville, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | August 2, 1920 (aged 28) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Airplane crash |
| Resting place | Greenwood Cemetery |
| Spouse |
Ruby Graves (m. 1915–1920) |
His popular flying circus caught the attention of Hollywood, and he starred in The Great Air Robbery (1919), a screenplay about the mid-air piracy of a US airmail plane. In his next film, The Skywayman, the plane crashed during a climactic dive, when the lighting team supposedly failed to douse the lights on cue, so Locklear was dazzled and flew blindly into the ground, dying instantly with his co-pilot Milton "Skeets" Elliott. The scene remained on the film.
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