John Hoyt
Acting • Born 1905-10-05 – Died 1991-09-15
Biography
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.
Filmography
214 credits
Spartacus
Movie • 1960
Caius
Duel at Diablo
Movie • 1966
Chata
The Black Castle
Movie • 1952
Count Steiken
Julius Caesar
Movie • 1953
Decius Brutus
The Big Combo
Movie • 1955
Nils Dreyer
Cleopatra
Movie • 1963
Cassius
The Bribe
Movie • 1949
Gibbs
Blackboard Jungle
Movie • 1955
Mr. Warneke
The Company She Keeps
Movie • 1951
Judge Kendall
Brute Force
Movie • 1947
Spencer
Forever, Darling
Movie • 1956
Bill Finlay
Merrill's Marauders
Movie • 1962
Gen. Joseph Stilwell
Baby Face Nelson
Movie • 1957
Samuel F. Parker
Trapped
Movie • 1949
Agent John Downey
The Lady Gambles
Movie • 1949
Dr. Rojac
Moonfleet
Movie • 1955
Magistrate Maskew
Winter Meeting
Movie • 1948
Stacy Grant
Death of a Scoundrel
Movie • 1956
Mr. O'Hara
Attack of the Puppet People
Movie • 1958
Mr. Franz
Lost Continent
Movie • 1951
Michael Rostov
When Worlds Collide
Movie • 1951
Sydney Stanton
The Lawless
Movie • 1950
Ed Ferguson
The Come On
Movie • 1956
Harold King, alias Harley Kendrick
Two on a Guillotine
Movie • 1965
Attorney Carl Vickers
Mulberry Street
Movie • 2006
Big Vic
To the Ends of the Earth
Movie • 1948
George C. Shannon
The Time Travelers
Movie • 1964
Dr. Varno
The Student Prince
Movie • 1954
Prime Minister
My Favorite Brunette
Movie • 1947
Dr. Lundau
The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes
Movie • 1980
Barlow
Loan Shark
Movie • 1952
Vince Phillips
The Unfaithful
Movie • 1947
Det. Lt. Reynolds
Creepy Classics
Movie • 1987
Mr. Franz - (archive footage)
The Pompatus of Love
Movie • 1996
Big Toe
O.S.S.
Movie • 1946
Col. Paul Meister
Wetbacks
Movie • 1956
Steve Bodine
The Purple Mask
Movie • 1955
Rochet
Young Dillinger
Movie • 1965
Dr. Wilson
Curse of the Undead
Movie • 1959
Dr. Carter
Gunpoint
Movie • 1966
Mayor Osborne
Quebec
Movie • 1951
Father Antoine
Forty Days of Musa Dagh
Movie • 1982
The Glass Cage
Movie • 1964
Lt. Max Westerman
Sins of Jezebel
Movie • 1953
Elijah
The Last Request
Movie • 2006
Big Joe
Sierra Stranger
Movie • 1957
Sheriff
Désirée
Movie • 1954
Talleyrand
Casanova's Big Night
Movie • 1954
Maggiorin
Asylum for a Spy
Movie • 1965
Lowell Ritchards
Everybody Does It
Movie • 1949
Wilkins
The Beast of Budapest
Movie • 1958
Prof. Ernst Tolnai
New Mexico
Movie • 1951
Sgt. Harriton
Outside the Wall
Movie • 1950
Jack Bernard
Operation C.I.A.
Movie • 1965
Wells
Sealed Verdict
Movie • 1948
Otto Steigmann
The Decision of Christopher Blake
Movie • 1948
Mr. Caldwell
The Great Dan Patch
Movie • 1949
Ben Lathrop
Inside Straight
Movie • 1951
Flutey Johnson
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Movie • 1951
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
Androcles and the Lion
Movie • 1952
Cato
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
Movie • 1955
William Travers Jerome
Trial
Movie • 1955
Ralph Castillo
The Conqueror
Movie • 1956
Shaman
Mohawk
Movie • 1956
Butler
God Is My Partner
Movie • 1957
Gordon Palmer
Never So Few
Movie • 1959
Col. Reed
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
Movie • 1963
Willard Benson
Fame Is the Name of the Game
Movie • 1966
Larkin
Winchester '73
Movie • 1967
Sunrider
Panic in the City
Movie • 1968
Dr. Milton Becker
The Intruders
Movie • 1970
Appleton
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
Movie • 1972
Minister
The Turning Point of Jim Malloy
Movie • 1975
Harry Longden
The Winds of Kitty Hawk
Movie • 1978
Prof. Samuel Langley
A Great Ride
Movie • 1979
Jukebox Drunk
In Search of Historic Jesus
Movie • 1979
Synagogue Man #1
Alvin Goes Back to School
Movie • 1986
Riot in Juvenile Prison
Movie • 1959
Col. Ernest Walton
Nero Wolfe
Movie • 1979
Hewitt
Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes
Movie • 1980
Barlow
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Movie • 1955
Poole
Freeing “Trapped”
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Desperately Seeking Susan
Movie • 1985
Space Commander
Flesh Gordon
Movie • 1974
Professor Gordon
Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn
Movie • 2013
Carmine
The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There
Movie • 1985
Star Trek: The Menagerie
Movie • 1966
Dr. Phil Boyce (archive footage)
Alcatraz Express
Movie • 1961
Capone's attorney (archive footage)
Planet of the Apes
TV • 1974
Prefect Barlow
The Time Tunnel
TV • 1966
The Alien Leader
Star Trek
TV • 1966
Dr. Phil Boyce (archive footage)
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Otto Veidt
Bourbon Street Beat
TV • 1959
John Cavanagh
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV • 1963
Mr. Orbin
The Munsters
TV • 1964
Checkmate
TV • 1960
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV • 1962
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Ross
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
John Fisher
Hogan's Heroes
TV • 1965
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Rex Propter
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Joseph Harrison
Studio One
TV • 1948
Judge Cass
The Rogues
TV • 1964
Spigal
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Dietz
Gimme a Break!
TV • 1981
Stanley Kanisky
Zorro
TV • 1957
Get Smart
TV • 1965
Mr. Bunny
Johnny Staccato
TV • 1959
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Dr. Loren
Ironside
TV • 1967
Malcolm Henderson
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
TV • 1974
Dr. Beckwith
Leave It to Beaver
TV • 1957
Doctor Compton
Laredo
TV • 1965
Bringing Up Buddy
TV • 1960
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
TV • 1966
The Monkees
TV • 1966
Mendoza
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
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Patrick Henry
The Count of Monte Cristo
TV • 1956
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Dr. Knut Sorens
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Judge Wickersham
Peter Gunn
TV • 1958
B.E. Raleigh
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Captain Louis Renault
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Capt. McCall
The Thin Man
TV • 1957
Florist Sitwell
Climax!
TV • 1954
Poole
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
TV • 1957
Burnison
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
The Big Valley
TV • 1965
Captain Waterman
M Squad
TV • 1957
Dr. Carter
Meeting of Minds
TV • 1977
Adventures in Paradise
TV • 1959
Sebastian
The Loner
TV • 1965
Colonel
Profiles in Courage
TV • 1964
Mr. Finchley
Matinee Theater
TV • 1955
Wendy and Me
TV • 1964
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV • 1956
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV • 1956
Self
The Alaskans
TV • 1959
Navy Log
TV • 1955
The Rifleman
TV • 1958
The Dakotas
TV • 1963
Lawman
TV • 1958
Laramie
TV • 1959
Law of the Plainsman
TV • 1959
Col. Efram Springer
Racket Squad
TV • 1951
Riverboat
TV • 1959
Antoine Rigaud
The Whistler
TV • 1954
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Hessian officer
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Frank Hale
Honey West
TV • 1965
Prof. Von Kemp
Lights Out
TV • 1949
Tom, Dick and Mary
TV • 1964
Dr. Krevoy
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Dr. Bernard Motley
Telephone Time
TV • 1956
Dangerous Assignment
TV • 1952
The Outer Limits
TV • 1963
Emmett Balfour
Lawman
TV • 1958
Judge Loren Grant
The Roaring 20's
TV • 1960
Johnny Midnight
TV • 1960
Mr. & Mrs. North
TV • 1952
Studio 57
TV • 1954
Maverick
TV • 1957
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Major Sutcliffe
Matt Helm
TV • 1975
Same Rae
The Big Valley
TV • 1965
Don Alfredo
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
TV • 1957
Harding
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Judge Harper
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Mr. Marshall
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Jeff
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Judge Manton
The Outer Limits
TV • 1963
Bifrost Alien
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Beaumont
The Outer Limits
TV • 1963
Professor Hebbel
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Com. Smedley
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
Jeremiah Priddy
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Musley
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Walt Matthews
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Hannigan
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Judge Parker
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Bentridge
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Simpson
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Roger Webb
The Chevy Mystery Show
TV • 1960
Arnold Bellson
The Rhinemann Exchange
TV • 1977
German scientist
Profiles in Courage
TV • 1964
Lodge
Hogan's Heroes
TV • 1965
General Bruner
Hogan's Heroes
TV • 1965
Field Marshall Von Galter
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Colonel James Lamport
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Philip Reynolds
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV • 1974
Dr. Spruger
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
William Harper Caine
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Darwin Norland
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Thomas Webber
The Danny Thomas Show
TV • 1953
Montague Brooks
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Reverend
Hogan's Heroes
TV • 1965
Colonel Braun
Hogan's Heroes
TV • 1965
General von Behler
The Time Tunnel
TV • 1966
Dr. Steinholtz
Death Valley Days
TV • 1952
Crandel
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Dr. Knox
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
TV • 1964
General Beeker
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Aristide
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Expert
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV • 1958
Capone's Attorney
Gunslinger
TV • 1961
Shubel Morgan