Acting
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.
Perry Mason
1957 · TV
The Rifleman
1958 · TV
Star Trek
1966 · TV
Ironside
1967 · TV
Bonanza
1959 · TV
Peter Gunn
1958 · TV
Hogan's Heroes
1965 · TV
The Twilight Zone
1959 · TV
Maverick
1957 · TV
Matinee Theater
1955 · TV
The Virginian
1962 · TV
The Wild Wild West
1965 · TV
Rawhide
1959 · TV
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · TV
Lawman
1958 · TV
Studio One
1948 · TV
Get Smart
1965 · TV
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962 · TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · TV
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957 · TV
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · TV
Climax!
1954 · TV
Daniel Boone
1964 · TV
Leave It to Beaver
1957 · TV
Four Star Playhouse
1952 · TV
Burke's Law
1963 · TV
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957 · TV
Dr. Kildare
1961 · TV
The Six Million Dollar Man
1974 · TV
Petticoat Junction
1963 · TV
Gunsmoke
1955 · TV
Zorro
1957 · TV
The Outer Limits
1963 · TV
The Big Valley
1965 · TV
The Danny Thomas Show
1953 · TV
The Time Tunnel
1966 · TV
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956 · TV
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · TV
The Millionaire
1955 · TV
Lights Out
1949 · TV
Telephone Time
1956 · TV
Police Woman
1974 · TV
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963 · TV
The Munsters
1964 · TV
Gimme a Break!
1981 · TV
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964 · TV
Laramie
1959 · TV
Adventures in Paradise
1959 · TV
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1964 · TV
Checkmate
1960 · TV
Honey West
1965 · TV
Navy Log
1955 · TV
Dangerous Assignment
1952 · TV
Studio 57
1954 · TV
The Monkees
1966 · TV
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958 · TV
The Count of Monte Cristo
1956 · TV
The Bob Cummings Show
1955 · TV
Outlaws
1960 · TV
M Squad
1957 · TV
It Takes a Thief
1968 · TV
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974 · TV
The Whistler
1954 · TV
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956 · TV
Johnny Midnight
1960 · TV
Laredo
1965 · TV
Racket Squad
1951 · TV
The Thin Man
1957 · TV
Cavalcade of America
1952 · TV
The Loner
1965 · TV
Johnny Staccato
1959 · TV
The Rogues
1964 · TV
Riverboat
1959 · TV
Law of the Plainsman
1959 · TV
Bourbon Street Beat
1959 · TV
Matt Helm
1975 · TV
Spartacus
1960 · Movie
The Roaring 20's
1960 · TV
Cleopatra
1963 · Movie
Death Valley Days
1952 · TV
Mr. & Mrs. North
1952 · TV
The Dakotas
1963 · TV
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1966 · TV
The Outcasts
1968 · TV
The Alaskans
1959 · TV
Planet of the Apes
1974 · TV
Wendy and Me
1964 · TV
Gunslinger
1961 · TV
General Electric Theater
1953 · TV
Meeting of Minds
1977 · TV
Desperately Seeking Susan
1985 · Movie
Brute Force
1947 · Movie
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · TV
Julius Caesar
1953 · Movie
Flesh Gordon
1974 · Movie
The Rhinemann Exchange
1977 · TV
When Worlds Collide
1951 · Movie
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
1963 · Movie
Désirée
1954 · Movie
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951 · Movie
Never So Few
1959 · Movie
Duel at Diablo
1966 · Movie
Baby Face Nelson
1957 · Movie
The Conqueror
1956 · Movie
Blackboard Jungle
1955 · Movie
Casanova's Big Night
1954 · Movie
Merrill's Marauders
1962 · Movie
My Favorite Brunette
1947 · Movie
The Lady Gambles
1949 · Movie
Death of a Scoundrel
1956 · Movie
Androcles and the Lion
1952 · Movie
The Company She Keeps
1951 · Movie
The Big Combo
1955 · Movie
Young Dillinger
1965 · Movie
Moonfleet
1955 · Movie
Trial
1955 · Movie
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
1955 · Movie
Freeing “Trapped”
2019 · Movie
Gunpoint
1966 · Movie
Attack of the Puppet People
1958 · Movie
The Black Castle
1952 · Movie
The Purple Mask
1955 · Movie
The Pompatus of Love
1996 · Movie
The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There
1985 · Movie
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
1972 · Movie
The Student Prince
1954 · Movie
Trapped
1949 · Movie
Quebec
1951 · Movie
The Decision of Christopher Blake
1948 · Movie
Two on a Guillotine
1965 · Movie
The Time Travelers
1964 · Movie
Curse of the Undead
1959 · Movie
Fame Is the Name of the Game
1966 · Movie
The Glass Cage
1964 · Movie
The Unfaithful
1947 · Movie
New Mexico
1951 · Movie
Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn
2013 · Movie
Creepy Classics
1987 · Movie
God Is My Partner
1957 · Movie
Operation C.I.A.
1965 · Movie
Lost Continent
1951 · Movie
The Turning Point of Jim Malloy
1975 · Movie
Winchester '73
1967 · Movie
Forever, Darling
1956 · Movie
The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes
1980 · Movie
To the Ends of the Earth
1948 · Movie
Outside the Wall
1950 · Movie
Mulberry Street
2006 · Movie
Forty Days of Musa Dagh
1982 · Movie
The Lawless
1950 · Movie
The Bribe
1949 · Movie
Everybody Does It
1949 · Movie
O.S.S.
1946 · Movie
Panic in the City
1968 · Movie
The Intruders
1970 · Movie
Mohawk
1956 · Movie
Winter Meeting
1948 · Movie
The Winds of Kitty Hawk
1978 · Movie
Loan Shark
1952 · Movie
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1955 · Movie
Sierra Stranger
1957 · Movie
In Search of Historic Jesus
1979 · Movie
Riot in Juvenile Prison
1959 · Movie
The Last Request
2006 · Movie
Sealed Verdict
1948 · Movie
Inside Straight
1951 · Movie
Sins of Jezebel
1953 · Movie
The Great Dan Patch
1949 · Movie
The Beast of Budapest
1958 · Movie
Alvin Goes Back to School
1986 · Movie
Nero Wolfe
1979 · Movie
Wetbacks
1956 · Movie
The Come On
1956 · Movie
A Great Ride
1979 · Movie
Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes
1980 · Movie
