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 bachelors and a masters 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 MGMs 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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Julius Caesar

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The Big Combo

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Cleopatra

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The Bribe

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Blackboard Jungle

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The Company She Keeps

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Death of a Scoundrel

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Lost Continent

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To the Ends of the Earth

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The Time Travelers

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My Favorite Brunette

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Androcles and the Lion

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Spartacus

Caius

Movie 1960

Duel at Diablo

Chata

Movie 1966

The Black Castle

Count Steiken

Movie 1952

Brute Force

Spencer

Movie 1947

Forever, Darling

Bill Finlay

Movie 1956

Merrill's Marauders

Gen. Joseph Stilwell

Movie 1962

Baby Face Nelson

Samuel F. Parker

Movie 1957

Trapped

Agent John Downey

Movie 1949

The Lady Gambles

Dr. Rojac

Movie 1949

Winter Meeting

Stacy Grant

Movie 1948

Attack of the Puppet People

Mr. Franz

Movie 1958

When Worlds Collide

Sydney Stanton

Movie 1951

The Lawless

Ed Ferguson

Movie 1950

The Come On

Harold King, alias Harley Kendrick

Movie 1956

Two on a Guillotine

Attorney Carl Vickers

Movie 1965

Mulberry Street

Big Vic

Movie 2006

The Student Prince

Prime Minister

Movie 1954

The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes

Barlow

Movie 1980

Loan Shark

Vince Phillips

Movie 1952

The Unfaithful

Det. Lt. Reynolds

Movie 1947

Creepy Classics

Mr. Franz - (archive footage)

Movie 1987

The Pompatus of Love

Big Toe

Movie 1996

O.S.S.

Col. Paul Meister

Movie 1946

Wetbacks

Steve Bodine

Movie 1956

The Purple Mask

Rochet

Movie 1955

Young Dillinger

Dr. Wilson

Movie 1965

Curse of the Undead

Dr. Carter

Movie 1959

Quebec

Father Antoine

Movie 1951

Forty Days of Musa Dagh

Movie 1982

The Glass Cage

Lt. Max Westerman

Movie 1964

Sins of Jezebel

Elijah

Movie 1953

The Last Request

Big Joe

Movie 2006

Sierra Stranger

Sheriff

Movie 1957

Asylum for a Spy

Lowell Ritchards

Movie 1965

The Beast of Budapest

Prof. Ernst Tolnai

Movie 1958

Operation C.I.A.

Wells

Movie 1965

God Is My Partner

Gordon Palmer

Movie 1957

Winchester '73

Sunrider

Movie 1967

The Turning Point of Jim Malloy

Harry Longden

Movie 1975

Inside Straight

Flutey Johnson

Movie 1951

The Intruders

Appleton

Movie 1970

Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol

Minister

Movie 1972

The Decision of Christopher Blake

Mr. Caldwell

Movie 1948

Fame Is the Name of the Game

Larkin

Movie 1966

Panic in the City

Dr. Milton Becker

Movie 1968

Sealed Verdict

Otto Steigmann

Movie 1948

A Great Ride

Jukebox Drunk

Movie 1979

The Winds of Kitty Hawk

Prof. Samuel Langley

Movie 1978

In Search of Historic Jesus

Synagogue Man #1

Movie 1979

Alvin Goes Back to School

Movie 1986

Riot in Juvenile Prison

Col. Ernest Walton

Movie 1959

Nero Wolfe

Hewitt

Movie 1979

Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes

Barlow

Movie 1980

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Poole

Movie 1955

Freeing “Trapped”

Self (archive footage)

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Flesh Gordon

Professor Gordon

Movie 1974

Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn

Carmine

Movie 2013

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Planet of the Apes

Tv 1974

The Time Tunnel

The Alien Leader

Tv 1966

Star Trek

Dr. Phil Boyce (archive footage)

Tv 1966

Burke's Law

Otto Veidt

Tv 1963

Bourbon Street Beat

John Cavanagh

Tv 1959

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Mr. Orbin

Tv 1963

The Munsters

Tv 1964

Checkmate

Tv 1960

The Beverly Hillbillies

Tv 1962

Petticoat Junction

John Fisher

Tv 1963

Perry Mason

Joseph Harrison

Tv 1957

The Rogues

Spigal

Tv 1964

Studio One

Judge Cass

Tv 1948

Gimme a Break!

Stanley Kanisky

Tv 1981

Zorro

Tv 1957

Johnny Staccato

Tv 1959

Get Smart

Tv 1965

Ironside

Malcolm Henderson

Tv 1967

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Tv 1974

Leave It to Beaver

Doctor Compton

Tv 1957

Laredo

Tv 1965

Bringing Up Buddy

Tv 1960

Pistols 'n' Petticoats

Tv 1966

Outlaws

Tv 1960

The Wild Wild West

Tv 1965

Rawhide

Tv 1959

Police Woman

Tv 1974

Have Gun, Will Travel

Tv 1957

The Outcasts

Tv 1968

The Count of Monte Cristo

Tv 1956

The Millionaire

Dr. Knut Sorens

Tv 1955

Peter Gunn

B.E. Raleigh

Tv 1958

Lux Video Theatre

Captain Louis Renault

Tv 1950

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Capt. McCall

Tv 1951

The Thin Man

Florist Sitwell

Tv 1957

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Tv 1963

The Big Valley

Captain Waterman

Tv 1965

Meeting of Minds

Tv 1977

The Loner

Tv 1965

Profiles in Courage

Mr. Finchley

Tv 1964

Matinee Theater

Tv 1955

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

Tv 1956

Wendy and Me

Tv 1964

The Philco Television Playhouse

Tv 1948

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Self

Tv 1956

The Alaskans

Tv 1959

Navy Log

Tv 1955

The Dakotas

Tv 1963

Lawman

Tv 1958

The Rifleman

Tv 1958

Laramie

Tv 1959

Law of the Plainsman

Col. Efram Springer

Tv 1959

Riverboat

Antoine Rigaud

Tv 1959

Racket Squad

Tv 1951

The Whistler

Tv 1954

Cavalcade of America

Hessian officer

Tv 1952

Honey West

Prof. Von Kemp

Tv 1965

Lights Out

Tv 1949

Tom, Dick and Mary

Dr. Krevoy

Tv 1964

Dr. Kildare

Dr. Bernard Motley

Tv 1961

Telephone Time

Tv 1956

Dangerous Assignment

Tv 1952

The Outer Limits

Emmett Balfour

Tv 1963

Lawman

Judge Loren Grant

Tv 1958

The Roaring 20's

Tv 1960

Johnny Midnight

Tv 1960

Mr. & Mrs. North

Tv 1952

Studio 57

Tv 1954

Maverick

Tv 1957

Bonanza

Major Sutcliffe

Tv 1959

Matt Helm

Same Rae

Tv 1975

The Big Valley

Don Alfredo

Tv 1965

The Outer Limits

Bifrost Alien

Tv 1963

The Outer Limits

Professor Hebbel

Tv 1963

Cavalcade of America

Tv 1952

Cavalcade of America

Com. Smedley

Tv 1952

Petticoat Junction

Jeremiah Priddy

Tv 1963

Lux Video Theatre

Musley

Tv 1950

Four Star Playhouse

Bentridge

Tv 1952

Four Star Playhouse

Simpson

Tv 1952

Four Star Playhouse

Roger Webb

Tv 1952

The Chevy Mystery Show

Arnold Bellson

Tv 1960

The Rhinemann Exchange

German scientist

Tv 1977

Profiles in Courage

Lodge

Tv 1964

Perry Mason

Philip Reynolds

Tv 1957

The Six Million Dollar Man

Dr. Spruger

Tv 1974

Perry Mason

William Harper Caine

Tv 1957

Perry Mason

Darwin Norland

Tv 1957

Perry Mason

Thomas Webber

Tv 1957

The Danny Thomas Show

Montague Brooks

Tv 1953

The Time Tunnel

Dr. Steinholtz

Tv 1966

Death Valley Days

Crandel

Tv 1952

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

General Beeker

Tv 1964