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