John Hoyt

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: Acting

Born: Bronxville, New York, USA, 1905-10-05

Died: 1991-09-15

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1946	O.S.S.	Col. Paul Meister	64
2	1947	My Favorite Brunette	Dr. Lundau	66
3	1947	The Unfaithful	Det. Lt. Reynolds	60
4	1947	Brute Force	Spencer	73
5	1948	To the Ends of the Earth	George C. Shannon	57
6	1948	Winter Meeting	Stacy Grant	65
7	1948	Sealed Verdict	Otto Steigmann	55
8	1948	The Decision of Christopher Blake	Mr. Caldwell	35
9	1949	The Bribe	Gibbs	62
10	1949	The Lady Gambles	Dr. Rojac	60
11	1949	The Great Dan Patch	Ben Lathrop	50
12	1949	Trapped	Agent John Downey	58
13	1949	Everybody Does It	Wilkins	78
14	1950	Outside the Wall	Jack Bernard	60
15	1950	The Lawless	Ed Ferguson	58
16	1951	The Company She Keeps	Judge Kendall	59
17	1951	Inside Straight	Flutey Johnson	42
18	1951	Quebec	Father Antoine	0
19	1951	New Mexico	Sgt. Harriton	35
20	1951	Lost Continent	Michael Rostov	34
21	1951	When Worlds Collide	Sydney Stanton	63
22	1951	The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel	Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel	67
23	1952	Loan Shark	Vince Phillips	55
24	1952	The Black Castle	Count Steiken	64
25	1952	Androcles and the Lion	Cato	58
26	1953	Julius Caesar	Decius Brutus	71
27	1953	Sins of Jezebel	Elijah	45
28	1954	Casanova's Big Night	Maggiorin	61
29	1954	The Student Prince	Prime Minister	64
30	1954	Désirée	Talleyrand	64
31	1955	The Big Combo	Nils Dreyer	70
32	1955	Blackboard Jungle	Mr. Warneke	69
33	1955	The Purple Mask	Rochet	50
34	1955	Moonfleet	Magistrate Maskew	65
35	1955	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Poole	60
36	1955	The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing	William Travers Jerome	62
37	1955	Trial	Ralph Castillo	67
38	1956	Forever, Darling	Bill Finlay	70
39	1956	The Conqueror	Shaman	34
40	1956	Mohawk	Butler	56
41	1956	The Come On	Harold King, alias Harley Kendrick	50
42	1956	Wetbacks	Steve Bodine	54
43	1956	Death of a Scoundrel	Mr. O'Hara	60
44	1957	Sierra Stranger	Sheriff	50
45	1957	God Is My Partner	Gordon Palmer	50
46	1957	Baby Face Nelson	Samuel F. Parker	56
47	1958	The Beast of Budapest	Prof. Ernst Tolnai	0
48	1958	Attack of the Puppet People	Mr. Franz	50
49	1959	Riot in Juvenile Prison	Col. Ernest Walton	52
50	1959	Curse of the Undead	Dr. Carter	54
51	1959	Never So Few	Col. Reed	54
52	1960	Spartacus	Caius	75
53	1962	Merrill's Marauders	Gen. Joseph Stilwell	61
54	1963	Cleopatra	Cassius	70
55	1963	X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes	Willard Benson	66
56	1964	The Glass Cage	Lt. Max Westerman	53
57	1964	The Time Travelers	Dr. Varno	49
58	1965	Two on a Guillotine	Attorney Carl Vickers	61
59	1965	Asylum for a Spy	Lowell Ritchards	0
60	1965	Young Dillinger	Dr. Wilson	65
61	1965	Operation C.I.A.	Wells	50
62	1966	Gunpoint	Mayor Osborne	60
63	1966	Duel at Diablo	Chata	63
64	1966	Fame Is the Name of the Game	Larkin	45
65	1967	Winchester '73	Sunrider	62
66	1968	Panic in the City	Dr. Milton Becker	52
67	1970	The Intruders	Appleton	45
68	1972	Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol	Minister	80
69	1974	Flesh Gordon	Professor Gordon	48
70	1975	The Turning Point of Jim Malloy	Harry Longden	0
71	1978	The Winds of Kitty Hawk	Prof. Samuel Langley	0
72	1979	In Search of Historic Jesus	Synagogue Man #1	43
73	1979	A Great Ride	Jukebox Drunk	10
74	1979	Nero Wolfe	Hewitt	87
75	1980	The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes	Barlow	75
76	1980	Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes	Barlow	75
77	1982	Forty Days of Musa Dagh		10
78	1985	Desperately Seeking Susan	Space Commander	61
79	1986	Alvin Goes Back to School		50
80	1987	Creepy Classics	Mr. Franz - (archive footage)	63
81	1996	The Pompatus of Love	Big Toe	41
82	2006	The Last Request	Big Joe	23
83	2006	Mulberry Street	Big Vic	53
84	2013	Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn	Carmine	39
85	2019	Freeing “Trapped”	Self (archive footage)	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse		63
2	1948	Studio One	Judge Cass	50
3	1949	Lights Out		53
4	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Captain Louis Renault	63
5	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Musley	63
6	1951	Racket Squad		60
7	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Capt. McCall	73
8	1952	Dangerous Assignment		35
9	1952	Four Star Playhouse	Bentridge	63
10	1952	Four Star Playhouse	Simpson	63
11	1952	Four Star Playhouse	Roger Webb	63
12	1952	Cavalcade of America	Hessian officer	35
13	1952	Cavalcade of America		35
14	1952	Cavalcade of America	Com. Smedley	35
15	1952	Death Valley Days	Crandel	64
16	1952	Mr. & Mrs. North		43
17	1953	General Electric Theater	Dietz	63
18	1953	General Electric Theater	Beaumont	63
19	1953	The Danny Thomas Show	Montague Brooks	60
20	1954	The Whistler		0
21	1954	Studio 57		0
22	1954	Climax!	Poole	33
23	1955	The Millionaire	Dr. Knut Sorens	50
24	1955	Gunsmoke	Rex Propter	66
25	1955	Gunsmoke	Jeff	66
26	1955	Navy Log		45
27	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Reverend	77
28	1955	Matinee Theater		50
29	1956	The Count of Monte Cristo		44
30	1956	Telephone Time		63
31	1956	The Adventures of Jim Bowie		45
32	1956	The Dinah Shore Chevy Show	Self	60
33	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Frank Hale	55
34	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Walt Matthews	55
35	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Hannigan	55
36	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Judge Parker	55
37	1957	Richard Diamond, Private Detective	Burnison	62
38	1957	Richard Diamond, Private Detective	Harding	62
39	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel		74
40	1957	The Thin Man	Florist Sitwell	76
41	1957	M Squad	Dr. Carter	52
42	1957	Perry Mason	Joseph Harrison	77
43	1957	Perry Mason	Philip Reynolds	77
44	1957	Perry Mason	William Harper Caine	77
45	1957	Perry Mason	Darwin Norland	77
46	1957	Perry Mason	Thomas Webber	77
47	1957	Maverick		68
48	1957	Leave It to Beaver	Doctor Compton	70
49	1957	Zorro		75
50	1958	Peter Gunn	B.E. Raleigh	65
51	1958	The Rifleman		70
52	1958	Lawman		56
53	1958	Lawman	Judge Loren Grant	56
54	1959	Rawhide		72
55	1959	Johnny Staccato		56
56	1959	Bonanza	Major Sutcliffe	75
57	1959	Riverboat	Antoine Rigaud	62
58	1959	Laramie		64
59	1959	Law of the Plainsman	Col. Efram Springer	60
60	1959	The Twilight Zone	Ross	84
61	1959	The Twilight Zone	Dr. Loren	84
62	1959	The Alaskans		55
63	1959	Bourbon Street Beat	John Cavanagh	50
64	1959	Adventures in Paradise	Sebastian	57
65	1960	Johnny Midnight		0
66	1960	The Chevy Mystery Show	Arnold Bellson	63
67	1960	Checkmate		41
68	1960	Outlaws		62
69	1960	Bringing Up Buddy		0
70	1960	The Roaring 20's		0
71	1961	Dr. Kildare	Dr. Bernard Motley	55
72	1962	The Virginian	Judge Wickersham	65
73	1962	The Virginian	Judge Harper	65
74	1962	The Virginian	Mr. Marshall	65
75	1962	The Virginian	Judge Manton	65
76	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Dr. Knox	78
77	1962	The Beverly Hillbillies		69
78	1963	The Dakotas		57
79	1963	The Outer Limits	Emmett Balfour	78
80	1963	The Outer Limits	Bifrost Alien	78
81	1963	The Outer Limits	Professor Hebbel	78
82	1963	Burke's Law	Otto Veidt	60
83	1963	Petticoat Junction	John Fisher	58
84	1963	Petticoat Junction	Jeremiah Priddy	58
85	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre		57
86	1963	Kraft Suspense Theatre	Mr. Orbin	53
87	1964	The Rogues	Spigal	72
88	1964	Wendy and Me		0
89	1964	Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea	General Beeker	78
90	1964	The Munsters		79
91	1964	Daniel Boone	Patrick Henry	69
92	1964	Daniel Boone	Colonel James Lamport	69
93	1964	Tom, Dick and Mary	Dr. Krevoy	50
94	1964	Profiles in Courage	Mr. Finchley	50
95	1964	Profiles in Courage	Lodge	50
96	1965	The Big Valley	Captain Waterman	61
97	1965	The Big Valley	Don Alfredo	61
98	1965	Laredo		63
99	1965	Hogan's Heroes		75
100	1965	The Wild Wild West		75
101	1965	Honey West	Prof. Von Kemp	70
102	1965	Hogan's Heroes	General Bruner	75
103	1965	Hogan's Heroes	Field Marshall Von Galter	75
104	1965	Hogan's Heroes	Colonel Braun	75
105	1965	Hogan's Heroes	General von Behler	75
106	1965	Get Smart		79
107	1965	The Loner	Colonel	57
108	1966	Star Trek	Dr. Phil Boyce (archive footage)	80
109	1966	The Time Tunnel	The Alien Leader	76
110	1966	The Time Tunnel	Dr. Steinholtz	76
111	1966	The Monkees	Mendoza	65
112	1966	Pistols 'n' Petticoats		75
113	1967	Ironside	Malcolm Henderson	68
114	1968	The Outcasts		53
115	1974	The Six Million Dollar Man	Dr. Spruger	73
116	1974	Planet of the Apes		69
117	1974	Kolchak: The Night Stalker	Dr. Beckwith	76
118	1974	Police Woman		63
119	1975	Matt Helm	Same Rae	74
120	1977	Meeting of Minds		95
121	1977	The Rhinemann Exchange	German scientist	61
122	1981	Gimme a Break!	Stanley Kanisky	67

John Hoyt

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