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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
October 5, 1905
Place of Birth:
Bronxville, New York, USA
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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
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Freeing “Trapped” | Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn | Carmine |
| 2006 | Mulberry Street | Big Vic |
| 2006 | The Last Request | Big Joe |
| 1996 | The Pompatus of Love | Big Toe |
| 1987 | Creepy Classics | Mr. Franz - (archive footage) |
| 1986 | Alvin Goes Back to School | |
| 1985 | Desperately Seeking Susan | Space Commander |
| 1982 | Forty Days of Musa Dagh | |
| 1980 | The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes | Barlow |
| 1980 | Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes | Barlow |
| 1979 | A Great Ride | Jukebox Drunk |
| 1979 | In Search of Historic Jesus | Synagogue Man #1 |
| 1979 | Nero Wolfe | Hewitt |
| 1978 | The Winds of Kitty Hawk | Prof. Samuel Langley |
| 1975 | The Turning Point of Jim Malloy | Harry Longden |
| 1974 | Flesh Gordon | Professor Gordon |
| 1972 | Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol | Minister |
| 1970 | The Intruders | Appleton |
| 1968 | Panic in the City | Dr. Milton Becker |
| 1967 | Winchester '73 | Sunrider |
| 1966 | Duel at Diablo | Chata |
| 1966 | Gunpoint | Mayor Osborne |
| 1966 | Fame Is the Name of the Game | Larkin |
| 1965 | Two on a Guillotine | Attorney Carl Vickers |
| 1965 | Young Dillinger | Dr. Wilson |
| 1965 | Asylum for a Spy | Lowell Ritchards |
| 1965 | Operation C.I.A. | Wells |
| 1964 | The Time Travelers | Dr. Varno |
| 1964 | The Glass Cage | Lt. Max Westerman |
| 1963 | Cleopatra | Cassius |
| 1963 | X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes | Willard Benson |
| 1962 | Merrill's Marauders | Gen. Joseph Stilwell |
| 1960 | Spartacus | Caius |
| 1959 | Curse of the Undead | Dr. Carter |
| 1959 | Never So Few | Col. Reed |
| 1959 | Riot in Juvenile Prison | Col. Ernest Walton |
| 1958 | Attack of the Puppet People | Mr. Franz |
| 1958 | The Beast of Budapest | Prof. Ernst Tolnai |
| 1957 | Baby Face Nelson | Samuel F. Parker |
| 1957 | Sierra Stranger | Sheriff |
| 1957 | God Is My Partner | Gordon Palmer |
| 1956 | Forever, Darling | Bill Finlay |
| 1956 | Death of a Scoundrel | Mr. O'Hara |
| 1956 | The Come On | Harold King, alias Harley Kendrick |
| 1956 | Wetbacks | Steve Bodine |
| 1956 | The Conqueror | Shaman |
| 1956 | Mohawk | Butler |
| 1955 | The Big Combo | Nils Dreyer |
| 1955 | Blackboard Jungle | Mr. Warneke |
| 1955 | Moonfleet | Magistrate Maskew |
| 1955 | The Purple Mask | Rochet |
| 1955 | The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing | William Travers Jerome |
| 1955 | Trial | Ralph Castillo |
| 1955 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Poole |
| 1954 | The Student Prince | Prime Minister |
| 1954 | Désirée | Talleyrand |
| 1954 | Casanova's Big Night | Maggiorin |
| 1953 | Julius Caesar | Decius Brutus |
| 1953 | Sins of Jezebel | Elijah |
| 1952 | The Black Castle | Count Steiken |
| 1952 | Loan Shark | Vince Phillips |
| 1952 | Androcles and the Lion | Cato |
| 1951 | The Company She Keeps | Judge Kendall |
| 1951 | Lost Continent | Michael Rostov |
| 1951 | When Worlds Collide | Sydney Stanton |
| 1951 | Quebec | Father Antoine |
| 1951 | New Mexico | Sgt. Harriton |
| 1951 | Inside Straight | Flutey Johnson |
| 1951 | The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel | Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel |
| 1950 | The Lawless | Ed Ferguson |
| 1950 | Outside the Wall | Jack Bernard |
| 1949 | The Bribe | Gibbs |
| 1949 | Trapped | Agent John Downey |
| 1949 | The Lady Gambles | Dr. Rojac |
| 1949 | Everybody Does It | Wilkins |
| 1949 | The Great Dan Patch | Ben Lathrop |
| 1948 | Winter Meeting | Stacy Grant |
| 1948 | To the Ends of the Earth | George C. Shannon |
| 1948 | Sealed Verdict | Otto Steigmann |
| 1948 | The Decision of Christopher Blake | Mr. Caldwell |
| 1947 | Brute Force | Spencer |
| 1947 | My Favorite Brunette | Dr. Lundau |
| 1947 | The Unfaithful | Det. Lt. Reynolds |
| 1946 | O.S.S. | Col. Paul Meister |