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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 …
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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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John Hoyt's Filmography
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Freeing “Trapped”
as Self (archive footage)
Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn
as Carmine
Mulberry Street
as Big Vic
The Last Request
as Big Joe
The Pompatus of Love
as Big Toe
Creepy Classics
as Mr. Franz - (archive footage)
Alvin Goes Back to School
The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There
Desperately Seeking Susan
as Space Commander
Forty Days of Musa Dagh
as General Waggenheim
Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes
as Barlow
The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes
as Barlow
Nero Wolfe
as Hewitt
A Great Ride
as Jukebox Drunk
In Search of Historic Jesus
as Synagogue Man #1
The Winds of Kitty Hawk
as Prof. Samuel Langley
The Turning Point of Jim Malloy
as Harry Longden
Flesh Gordon
as Professor Gordon
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
as Minister
The Intruders
as Appleton
Panic in the City
as Dr. Milton Becker
Winchester '73
as Sunrider
Fame Is the Name of the Game
as Larkin
Duel at Diablo
as Chata
Gunpoint
as Mayor Osborne
Operation C.I.A.
as Wells
Young Dillinger
as Dr. Wilson
No Poster
Asylum for a Spy
as Lowell Ritchards
Two on a Guillotine
as Attorney Carl Vickers
The Time Travelers
as Dr. Varno
The Glass Cage
as Lt. Max Westerman
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
as Willard Benson
Cleopatra
as Cassius
Merrill's Marauders
as Gen. Joseph Stilwell
No Poster
Alcatraz Express
as Capone's Attorney
Spartacus
as Caius
Never So Few
as Col. Reed
Curse of the Undead
as Dr. Carter
Riot in Juvenile Prison
as Col. Ernest Walton
Attack of the Puppet People
as Mr. Franz
The Beast of Budapest
as Prof. Ernst Tolnai
Baby Face Nelson
as Samuel F. Parker
God Is My Partner
as Gordon Palmer
Sierra Stranger
as Sheriff
Death of a Scoundrel
as Mr. O'Hara
Wetbacks
as Steve Bodine
The Come On
as Harold King, alias Harley Kendrick
Mohawk
as Butler
Forever, Darling
as Bill Finlay
The Conqueror
as Shaman
Trial
as Ralph Castillo
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
as William Travers Jerome
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Poole
Moonfleet
as Magistrate Maskew
The Purple Mask
as Rochet
Blackboard Jungle
as Mr. Warneke
The Big Combo
as Nils Dreyer
Désirée
as Talleyrand
The Student Prince
as Prime Minister
Casanova's Big Night
as Maggiorin
Sins of Jezebel
as Elijah
Julius Caesar
as Decius Brutus
Androcles and the Lion
as Cato
The Black Castle
as Count Steiken
Loan Shark
as Vince Phillips
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
as Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
When Worlds Collide
as Sydney Stanton
Lost Continent
as Michael Rostov
New Mexico
as Sergeant Harriton
Quebec
as Father Antoine
Inside Straight
as Flutey Johnson
The Company She Keeps
as Judge Kendall
The Lawless
as Ed Ferguson
Outside the Wall
as Jack Bernard
Everybody Does It
as Wilkins
Trapped
as Agent John Downey
The Great Dan Patch
as Ben Lathrop
The Lady Gambles
as Dr. Rojac
The Bribe
as Gibbs
The Decision of Christopher Blake
as Mr. Caldwell
Sealed Verdict
as Otto Steigmann
Winter Meeting
as Stacy Grant
To the Ends of the Earth
as George C. Shannon
Brute Force
as Spencer
The Unfaithful
as Det. Lt. Reynolds
My Favorite Brunette
as Dr. Lundau
O.S.S.
as Col. Paul Meister