Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 05, 1905
Died
Sep 15, 1991
Place of Birth
Bronxville, New York, USA
Credits
184 titles
John Hoyt
Biography
John Hoyt was an American film, theatre, and television actor, October 5, 1905 – September 15, 1991. He began his acting career on Broadway, later appearing in numerous films and television series. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the films The Lawless (1950), When Worlds Collide (1951), Julius Caesar (1953), Blackboard Jungle (1955), Spartacus (1960), Cleopatra (1963), The Outer Limits (1964), Flesh Gordon (1974), and the television series Gimme a Break! (1981-87). Hoyt was born John McArthur Hoysradt in Bronxville, New York, the son of Warren J. Hoysradt, an investment banker, and his wife, Ethel Hoysradt, née Wolf. He attended the Hotchkiss School and Yale University, where he served on the editorial board of campus humor magazine The Yale Record. He received a bachelor's and a master's degree from Yale. He worked as a history instructor at the Groton School for two years. Hoyt shortened his surname in 1945, the year before his film debut in O.S.S. He became a familiar face in film noir and played the strict Principal Warneke in the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle, starring Glenn Ford. He played an industrialist in the 1951 film When Worlds Collide. Hoyt appeared in one Shakespearean film: MGM's Julius Caesar, reprising the role of Decius Brutus (or Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus), whom he had played in the 1937 Mercury Theatre production. In 1952, he played Cato in Androcles and the Lion. In 1953, he portrayed Elijah in the biblical film Sins of Jezebel. He had featured roles in the big-budget sixties epics Spartacus and Cleopatra.
Known For
Filmography
Freeing “Trapped”
Self (archive footage)
Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn
Carmine
Mulberry Street
Big Vic
The Last Request
Big Joe
The Pompatus of Love
Big Toe
Creepy Classics
Mr. Franz - (archive footage)
Alvin Goes Back to School
The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There
Desperately Seeking Susan
Space Commander
Forty Days of Musa Dagh
General Waggenheim
Gimme a Break!
Stanley Kanisky
Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes
Barlow
The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes
Barlow
Nero Wolfe
Hewitt
A Great Ride
Jukebox Drunk
In Search of Historic Jesus
Synagogue Man #1
The Winds of Kitty Hawk
Prof. Samuel Langley
The Rhinemann Exchange
German scientist
Meeting of Minds
Matt Helm
Same Rae
The Turning Point of Jim Malloy
Harry Longden
Police Woman
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Dr. Beckwith
Planet of the Apes
Prefect Barlow
Flesh Gordon
Professor Gordon
The Six Million Dollar Man
Dr. Spruger
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
Minister
The Intruders
Appleton
Panic in the City
Dr. Milton Becker
The Outcasts
It Takes a Thief
Mundt
Ironside
Malcolm Henderson
Winchester '73
Sunrider
CBS Playhouse
Hobart Waylon
Fame Is the Name of the Game
Larkin
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
The Monkees
Mendoza
The Time Tunnel
The Alien Leader
Star Trek
Dr. Phil Boyce (archive footage)
Duel at Diablo
Chata
Gunpoint
Mayor Osborne
Get Smart
Mr. Bunny
The Loner
Colonel
Hogan's Heroes
The Wild Wild West
Honey West
Prof. Von Kemp
Laredo
The Big Valley
Captain Waterman
Operation C.I.A.
Wells
Young Dillinger
Dr. Wilson