Edward J. Locke (1869–1945) was an American playwright born in the United Kingdom.

He became a theatre and vaudeville actor while still in his teens. He wrote some vaudeville sketches and plays, the most successful of which was The Climax, which has been filmed twice ( the first time in 1930, the second in 1944), though one version bore little resemblance to the play.^{[ according to whom?]} The Case of Becky was also the subject of a movie. The Revolt (1915) was made into the   World Pictures' The Revolt the following year.

Works

• Fighting Fate (1905)
• The Climax (1909)
• The Case of Becky (1912) ^[1]
• The Silver Wedding (1913)
• The Revolt (1915)
• The Bubble (1915)
• The Dancer (1919) ^[2]
• The Woman Who Laughed (1922)
• Mike Angelo (1923)
• The Love Call (1927)
• 57 Bowery (1928)

References

External links

• Edward Locke at IMDb 
• Edward Locke at the Internet Broadway Database
• Edward Locke at Playbill Vault
• The Bubble by Edward Locke and Benedict James on Great War Theatre

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