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