John Hoyt

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John Hoyt
Born	John McArthur Hoysradt October 5, 1905(1905-10-05) Bronxville, New York, U.S.
Died	September 15, 1991(1991-09-15) (aged 85) Santa Cruz, California, U.S.
Years active	1946-87
Spouse	Dorothy Oltman Haveman (1961-91; his death)

John Hoyt (October 5, 1905 – September 15, 1991) was an American film, stage, and television actor.

Early life

Hoyt was born John McArthur Hoysradt. Before becoming an actor with Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre, the Yale University graduate worked as a history instructor, acting teacher and even (under his birth name) a nightclub comedian.^{[citation needed]} In the latter activity, Hoyt performed impressions of famous entertainers. His impersonation of Noël Coward was so remarkable that he was hired for the original cast of the Broadway comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner, in which he played Beverley Carlton.^{[citation needed]} Hoyt soon shortened his surname when he began his movie career.

Television and film

Hoyt had a number of memorable roles - as Darwin Norland in the Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Libelous Locket", an industrialist in When Worlds Collide, in a number of guest roles on Hogan's Heroes, and as Dr. Philip Boyce in a pilot episode of Star Trek ("The Cage"). Hoyt appeared twice during the second season of The Twilight Zone, in the episodes "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up" and "The Lateness of the Hour". He also appeared as the KAOS agent Conrad Bunny in the Get Smart episode, "Our Man in Toyland", as General Beeker in the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode "Hail to the Chief" and as Dr. Mendoza in The Monkees episode "I Was a Teenage Monster". He was also a guest player in an episode of the "George Burns and Gracie Allen [television] Show." Because of his stentorian demeanor, the writers had him play opposite the usual conceit -- where most strangers became befuddled by Gracie's convoluted behavior. In the teleplay, Hoyt simply would not put up with Gracie's antics and immediately removed himself from the room -- twice. His last screen role was as Grandpa in Nell Carter's TV series Gimme a Break!.

Hoyt appeared in one Shakespearean film, MGM's Julius Caesar, reprising the role of Decius Brutus (a.k.a Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus), which he had played in the 1937 Mercury Theatre production. In 1953, he portrayed Elijah in the biblical film Sins of Jezebel.

Death

Hoyt died of lung cancer in Santa Cruz, California in 1991, aged 85.

Partial filmography

• O.S.S. (1946) (film debut)
• My Favorite Brunette (1947)
• The Unfaithful (1947)
• Brute Force (1947)
• To the Ends of the Earth (1948)
• Winter Meeting (1948)
• Sealed Verdict (1948)
• The Bribe (1949)
• The Lady Gambles (1949)
• Trapped (1949)
• Everybody Does It (1949)
• The Lawless (1950)
• Quebec (1951)
• Lost Continent (1951)
• The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
• When Worlds Collide (1951)
• The Black Castle (1952)
• Androcles and the Lion (1952)
• Julius Caesar (1953)
• Sins of Jezebel (1953)
• Casanova's Big Night (1954)
• The Student Prince (1954)
• Désirée (1954)
• The Big Combo (1955)

• Blackboard Jungle (1955)
• The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955)
• Moonfleet (1955)
• Trial (1955)
• Forever, Darling (1956)
• The Conqueror (1956)
• Death of a Scoundrel (1956)
• Telephone Time (1 episode, 1957)
• Baby Face Nelson (1957)
• Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
• Never So Few (1959)
• Spartacus (1960)
• Merrill's Marauders (1962)
• Cleopatra (1963)
• X, also known as X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
• The Glass Cage (1964)
• The Time Travelers (1964)
• Two on a Guillotine (1965)
• Duel at Diablo (1966)
• Flesh Gordon (1974)
• Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)

External links

• John Hoyt at the Internet Movie Database
• John Hoyt at the Internet Broadway Database
• John Hoyt at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• John Hoyt at Find a Grave