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