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John Hoyt
Bronxville, New York, USA
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…
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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.
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2019
Freeing “Trapped”
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2013
Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn
Movie Carmine
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2006
Mulberry Street
Movie Big Vic
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2006
The Last Request
Movie Big Joe
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1996
The Pompatus of Love
Movie Big Toe
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1987
Creepy Classics
Movie Mr. Franz - (archive footage)
- 1986
- 1985
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1985
Desperately Seeking Susan
Movie Space Commander
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1982
Forty Days of Musa Dagh
Movie General Waggenheim
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1981
Gimme a Break!
TV show Stanley Kanisky
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1980
Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes
Movie Barlow
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1980
The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes
Movie Barlow
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1979
Nero Wolfe
Movie Hewitt
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1979
A Great Ride
Movie Jukebox Drunk
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1979
In Search of Historic Jesus
Movie Synagogue Man #1
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1978
The Winds of Kitty Hawk
Movie Prof. Samuel Langley
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1977
The Rhinemann Exchange
TV show German scientist
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1977
Meeting of Minds
TV show
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1975
Matt Helm
TV show Same Rae
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1975
The Turning Point of Jim Malloy
Movie Harry Longden
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1974
Police Woman
TV show
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1974
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
TV show Dr. Beckwith
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1974
Planet of the Apes
TV show Prefect Barlow
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1974
Flesh Gordon
Movie Professor Gordon
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1974
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV show Dr. Spruger
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1972
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
Movie Minister
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1970
The Intruders
Movie Appleton
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1968
Panic in the City
Movie Dr. Milton Becker
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1968
The Outcasts
TV show
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1968
It Takes a Thief
TV show Mundt
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1967
Ironside
TV show Malcolm Henderson
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1967
Winchester '73
Movie Sunrider
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1966
CBS Playhouse
TV show Hobart Waylon
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1966
Fame Is the Name of the Game
Movie Larkin
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1966
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
TV show
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1966
The Monkees
TV show Mendoza
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1966
The Time Tunnel
TV show The Alien Leader
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1966
Star Trek
TV show Dr. Phil Boyce (archive footage)
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1966
Duel at Diablo
Movie Chata
