John Hoyt
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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
Credits
Cleopatra (1963)
as Cassius
Spartacus (1960)
as Caius
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
as Space Commander
Désirée (1954)
as Talleyrand
Julius Caesar (1953)
as Decius Brutus
Brute Force (1947)
as Spencer
Trial (1955)
as Ralph Castillo
When Worlds Collide (1951)
as Sydney Stanton
Young Dillinger (1965)
as Dr. Wilson
Never So Few (1959)
as Col. Reed
Freeing “Trapped” (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
Flesh Gordon (1974)
as Professor Gordon
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
as Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
Androcles and the Lion (1952)
as Cato
Casanova's Big Night (1954)
as Maggiorin
The Lady Gambles (1949)
as Dr. Rojac
Death of a Scoundrel (1956)
as Mr. O'Hara
Duel at Diablo (1966)
as Chata
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
as Willard Benson
Baby Face Nelson (1957)
as Samuel F. Parker
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955)
as William Travers Jerome
The Big Combo (1955)
as Nils Dreyer
The Purple Mask (1955)
as Rochet
Moonfleet (1955)
as Magistrate Maskew
The Conqueror (1956)
as Shaman
The Company She Keeps (1951)
as Judge Kendall
Quebec (1951)
as Father Antoine
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
as Mr. Warneke
Curse of the Undead (1959)
as Dr. Carter
My Favorite Brunette (1947)
as Dr. Lundau
The Pompatus of Love (1996)
as Big Toe
Panic in the City (1968)
as Dr. Milton Becker
The Time Travelers (1964)
as Dr. Varno
The Unfaithful (1947)
as Det. Lt. Reynolds
New Mexico (1951)
as Sergeant Harriton
Merrill's Marauders (1962)
as Gen. Joseph Stilwell
The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There (1985)
Actor
Two on a Guillotine (1965)
as Attorney Carl Vickers
The Glass Cage (1964)
as Lt. Max Westerman
The Decision of Christopher Blake (1948)
as Mr. Caldwell
Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1982)
as General Waggenheim
Riot in Juvenile Prison (1959)
as Col. Ernest Walton
Lost Continent (1951)
as Michael Rostov
To the Ends of the Earth (1948)
as George C. Shannon
Mulberry Street (2006)
as Big Vic
Mohawk (1956)
as Butler
The Intruders (1970)
as Appleton
O.S.S. (1946)
as Col. Paul Meister
Alcatraz Express (1961)
as Capone's Attorney
Forever, Darling (1956)
as Bill Finlay
The Black Castle (1952)
as Count Steiken
Gunpoint (1966)
as Mayor Osborne
Loan Shark (1952)
as Vince Phillips
Creepy Classics (1987)
as Mr. Franz - (archive footage)
Outside the Wall (1950)
as Jack Bernard
Sins of Jezebel (1953)
as Elijah
The Beast of Budapest (1958)
as Prof. Ernst Tolnai
The Winds of Kitty Hawk (1978)
as Prof. Samuel Langley
The Come On (1956)
as Harold King, alias Harley Kendrick
Operation C.I.A. (1965)
as Wells
Asylum for a Spy (1965)
as Lowell Ritchards
The Student Prince (1954)
as Prime Minister
The Lawless (1950)
as Ed Ferguson
The Bribe (1949)
as Gibbs
The Last Request (2006)
as Big Joe
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1955)
as Poole
Wetbacks (1956)
as Steve Bodine
Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn (2013)
as Carmine
In Search of Historic Jesus (1979)
as Synagogue Man #1
Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966)
as Larkin
Sealed Verdict (1948)
as Otto Steigmann
Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
as Mr. Franz
God Is My Partner (1957)
as Gordon Palmer
Trapped (1949)
as Agent John Downey
Winchester '73 (1967)
as Sunrider
The Great Dan Patch (1949)
as Ben Lathrop
Winter Meeting (1948)
as Stacy Grant
Sierra Stranger (1957)
as Sheriff
The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes (1980)
as Barlow
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol (1972)
as Minister
Inside Straight (1951)
as Flutey Johnson
Nero Wolfe (1979)
as Hewitt
A Great Ride (1979)
as Jukebox Drunk
Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes (1980)
as Barlow
Alvin Goes Back to School (1986)
Actor
Everybody Does It (1949)
as Wilkins
The Turning Point of Jim Malloy (1975)
as Harry Longden