John Hoyt
Acting
🎂 1905-10-05
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.
Cast credits(207)
Doctor Compton
1957
1955
Dr. Phil Boyce (archive footage)
1966
1965
Field Marshall Von Galter
1965
General Bruner
1965
Colonel Braun
1965
General von Behler
1965
1958
Sebastian
1959
Dr. Spruger
1974
Otto Veidt
1963
1965
1955
Dr. Bernard Motley
1961
Dr. Carter
1957
1962
Major Sutcliffe
1959
1957
Dr. Knox
1962
Montague Brooks
1953
1974
Stanley Kanisky
1981
1957
Ross
1959
Dr. Loren
1959
Judge Cass
1948
1952
1957
Patrick Henry
1964
Colonel James Lamport
1964
1948
1956
Joseph Harrison
1957
Philip Reynolds
1957
William Harper Caine
1957
Darwin Norland
1957
Thomas Webber
1957
Frank Hale
1956
Walt Matthews
1956
Hannigan
1956
Judge Parker
1956
Col. Efram Springer
1959
Captain Waterman
1965
Don Alfredo
1965
Emmett Balfour
1963
Bifrost Alien
1963
Professor Hebbel
1963
1959
1964
B.E. Raleigh
1958
1951
1965
1956
1959
Self
1956
1963
1954
General Beeker
1964
1960
1956
Mr. Finchley
1964
Lodge
1964
Poole
1954
Florist Sitwell
1957
Bentridge
1952
Simpson
1952
Roger Webb
1952
Mendoza
1966
The Alien Leader
1966
Dr. Steinholtz
1966
1968
1960
1959
John Cavanagh
1959
Mr. Orbin
1963
Malcolm Henderson
1967
Same Rae
1975
Prof. Von Kemp
1965
1954
1960
1952
Crandel
1952
1960
1964
Dr. Beckwith
1974
Antoine Rigaud
1959
Judge Wickersham
1962
Judge Harper
1962
Mr. Marshall
1962
Judge Manton
1962
1974
Burnison
1957
Harding
1957
Dr. Knut Sorens
1955
1977
John Fisher
1963
Jeremiah Priddy
1963
1963
1966
1959
Colonel
1965
Reverend
1955
Dr. Krevoy
1964
1960
1958
Judge Loren Grant
1958
Rex Propter
1955
Jeff
1955
1949
Spigal
1964
Captain Louis Renault
1950
Musley
1950
1965
Arnold Bellson
1960
Caius
1960
Hessian officer
1952
1952
Com. Smedley
1952
German scientist
1977
Dietz
1953
Beaumont
1953
Cassius
1963
Capt. McCall
1951
Space Commander
1985
Decius Brutus
1953
Professor Gordon
1974
Spencer
1947
Nils Dreyer
1955
Col. Reed
1959
Sydney Stanton
1951
Shaman
1956
Agent John Downey
1949
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
1951
Talleyrand
1954
Willard Benson
1963
Mr. Warneke
1955
Butler
1956
Ben Lathrop
1949
Sgt. Harriton
1951
Cato
1952
Mayor Osborne
1966
Gen. Joseph Stilwell
1962
Dr. Carter
1959
Magistrate Maskew
1955
Mr. Franz
1958
William Travers Jerome
1955
Attorney Carl Vickers
1965
Chata
1966
Gibbs
1949
Count Steiken
1952
Col. Paul Meister
1946
Rochet
1955
Prime Minister
1954
Dr. Lundau
1947
Maggiorin
1954
Michael Rostov
1951
George C. Shannon
1948
Det. Lt. Reynolds
1947
Big Vic
2006
Sunrider
1967
Dr. Rojac
1949
Carmine
2013
Barlow
1980
Dr. Varno
1964
Appleton
1970
Bill Finlay
1956
Ed Ferguson
1950
Mr. O'Hara
1956
Elijah
1953
Prof. Samuel Langley
1978
Mr. Caldwell
1948
Big Toe
1996
Barlow
1980
Judge Kendall
1951
Samuel F. Parker
1957
Ralph Castillo
1955
Col. Ernest Walton
1959
Larkin
1966
Synagogue Man #1
1979
Flutey Johnson
1951
Big Joe
2006
Otto Steigmann
1948
Steve Bodine
1956
Vince Phillips
1952
Father Antoine
1951
Jukebox Drunk
1979
Lowell Ritchards
1965
Gordon Palmer
1957
Dr. Milton Becker
1968
1982
Hewitt
1979
Mr. Franz - (archive footage)
1987
Jack Bernard
1950
Minister
1972
Poole
1955
Stacy Grant
1948
Harold King, alias Harley Kendrick
1956
Sheriff
1957
1986
Dr. Wilson
1965
Harry Longden
1975
Lt. Max Westerman
1964
Wells
1965
Wilkins
1949
Prof. Ernst Tolnai
1958
Self (archive footage)
2019