John Hoyt
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1905-10-05
Deathday 1991-09-15 (85 years old)
Place of Birth Bronxville, New York, USA
Also Known As John Glen Hoyt, John McArthur Hoysradt
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
Actor
as Self (archive footage)
as Big Vic
as Big Joe
as Big Toe
as Mr. Franz - (archive footage)
as Mr. Franz in 'Attack of the Puppet People'
as Space Commander
as Stanley Kanisky
as Hewitt
as Jukebox Drunk
as Synagogue Man #1
as Prof. Samuel Langley
as German scientist
as Harry Longden
as Same Rae
as Professor Gordon
as Dr. Spruger
as Minister
as Appleton
as Dr. Milton Becker
as Sunrider
as Malcolm Henderson
as Larkin
as Chata
as Mayor Osborne
as Mendoza
as The Alien Leader
as Dr. Steinholtz
as Dr. Phil Boyce (archive footage)
as Wells
as Dr. Wilson
as Lowell Ritchards
as Attorney Carl Vickers
as Prof. Von Kemp
as General Bruner
as Field Marshall Von Galter
as Colonel Braun
as General von Behler
as Captain Waterman
as Don Alfredo
as Dr. Varno
as Lt. Max Westerman
as Mr. Finchley
as Lodge
as Dr. Krevoy
as Patrick Henry
as Colonel James Lamport
as General Beeker
as Spigal
as Willard Benson
as Cassius
as Mr. Orbin
as John Fisher
as Jeremiah Priddy
as Otto Veidt
as Emmett Balfour
as Bifrost Alien
as Professor Hebbel
as Gen. Joseph Stilwell
as Dr. Knox
as Judge Wickersham
as Judge Harper
as Mr. Marshall
as Judge Manton
as Dr. Bernard Motley
as Caius
as Arnold Bellson
as Col. Reed
as Dr. Carter
as Col. Ernest Walton
as John Cavanagh
as Sebastian
as Ross
as Dr. Loren
as Col. Efram Springer
as Antoine Rigaud
as Major Sutcliffe
as Mr. Franz
as Prof. Ernst Tolnai
as Judge Loren Grant
as B.E. Raleigh
as Samuel F. Parker
as Gordon Palmer
as Sheriff
as Doctor Compton
as Joseph Harrison
as Philip Reynolds
as William Harper Caine
as Darwin Norland
as Thomas Webber
as Florist Sitwell
as Dr. Carter
as Burnison
as Harding
as Mr. O'Hara
as Steve Bodine
as Harold King, alias Harley Kendrick
as Butler
as Shaman
as Bill Finlay
as Self
as Frank Hale
as Walt Matthews
as Hannigan
as Judge Parker
as Ralph Castillo
as William Travers Jerome
as Poole
as Magistrate Maskew
as Rochet
as Mr. Warneke
as Nils Dreyer
as Reverend
as Rex Propter
as Jeff
as Dr. Knut Sorens
as Talleyrand
as Prime Minister
as Maggiorin
as Poole
as Elijah
as Decius Brutus
as Montague Brooks
as Dietz
as Beaumont
as Cato
as Count Steiken
as Vince Phillips
as Hessian officer
as Com. Smedley
as Crandel
as Bentridge
as Simpson
as Roger Webb
as Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
as Sydney Stanton
as Michael Rostov
as Sgt. Harriton
as Father Antoine
as Flutey Johnson
as Judge Kendall
as Capt. McCall
as Ed Ferguson
as Jack Bernard
as Captain Louis Renault
as Musley
as Wilkins
as Agent John Downey
as Ben Lathrop
as Dr. Rojac
as Gibbs
as Mr. Caldwell
as Otto Steigmann
as Stacy Grant
as George C. Shannon
as Judge Cass
as Spencer
as Det. Lt. Reynolds
as Dr. Lundau
as Col. Paul Meister
Writer
as Writer