John Hoyt

Known for ActingBorn 1905-10-05Died 1991-09-15Bronxville, 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 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Bringing Up Buddy

Meeting of Minds

The Twilight Zone

Nero Wolfe

Everybody Does It

The Turning Point of Jim Malloy

Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol

Star Trek

Asylum for a Spy

The Rogues

Wendy and Me

Matt Helm

The Beast of Budapest

The Munsters

Get Smart

Studio 57

The Outer Limits

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes

Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Perry Mason

Pistols 'n' Petticoats

The Time Tunnel

The Wild Wild West

Hogan's Heroes

Profiles in Courage

The Thin Man

Bonanza

Spartacus

God Is My Partner

Zorro

The Six Million Dollar Man

Young Dillinger

Law of the Plainsman

It Takes a Thief

Honey West

Have Gun, Will Travel

Rawhide

Brute Force

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Cleopatra

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Planet of the Apes

The Rifleman

Forever, Darling