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John Hoyt (October 5, 1905 – September 15, 1991) was an American
United States

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 film, theatre, and television actor.

John Hoyt was born John Hoysradt. Before becoming an actor with Orson Welles
Orson Welles

George Orson Welles , better known as Orson Welles, was an Academy Award-winning United States actor, director, writer and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio....
's Mercury Theatre
Mercury Theatre

The Mercury Theatre was a theatre company founded in New York City in 1937 by Orson Welles and John Houseman. After initial success in live theatrical productions, in 1938 the Mercury Theatre progressed into their their best-known period as The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a radio drama series that included one of the most notable an...
, the Yale University
Yale University

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League....
 graduate worked as a history instructor, acting teacher and even as a nightclub comedian. Under his birth name (John Hoysradt), Hoyt began his performing career in a nightclub act doing impressions of famous entertainers.






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John Hoyt (October 5, 1905 – September 15, 1991) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film, theatre, and television actor.

John Hoyt was born John Hoysradt. Before becoming an actor with Orson Welles
Orson Welles

George Orson Welles , better known as Orson Welles, was an Academy Award-winning United States actor, director, writer and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio....
's Mercury Theatre
Mercury Theatre

The Mercury Theatre was a theatre company founded in New York City in 1937 by Orson Welles and John Houseman. After initial success in live theatrical productions, in 1938 the Mercury Theatre progressed into their their best-known period as The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a radio drama series that included one of the most notable an...
, the Yale University
Yale University

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League....
 graduate worked as a history instructor, acting teacher and even as a nightclub comedian. Under his birth name (John Hoysradt), Hoyt began his performing career in a nightclub act doing impressions of famous entertainers. His impersonation of Noël Coward
Noël Coward

Sir No?l Peirce Coward was an English people playwright, composer, Theatre director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise"....
 was so remarkable that he was hired for the original cast of the Broadway comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Man Who Came to Dinner

The Man Who Came to Dinner is a comedy in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. It debuted on October 16, 1939 at the Music Box Theatre in New York City....
, in which he played Beverley Carlton, a role clearly based on Coward.

Hoysradt began his movie career still using his birth name, but soon shortened it to Hoyt. He was known for playing villains in films, but also had a part (a non-pornographic one) in the softcore porn film Flesh Gordon
Flesh Gordon

Flesh Gordon is a 1974 science fiction film and comedy film adventure film. It is an erotic spoof of the Flash Gordon serial films from the 1930s....
. He also briefly appeared naked (shown only from the waist up) in the Roger Corman
Roger Corman

Roger William Corman , sometimes nicknamed "King of the Bs" for his output of B-movies , is a prolific United States film producer and film director of low-budget movies, some of which have an established critical reputation: his cycle of films derived from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe for example....
 film X -- The Man With X-Ray Eyes
X (1963 film)

X is a 1963 science fiction/Horror film motion picture.Directed by Roger Corman from a script by Ray Russell and Robert Dillon, X stars Ray Milland as Dr....
 (1963).

Television and Motion Pictures

Hoyt had a number of memorable television roles including the grandfather on Gimme a Break!
Gimme a Break!

Gimme a Break! is an United States sitcom which aired on NBC from October 29, 1981 until May 12, 1987. It starred Nell Carter as the housekeeper for a widowed police chief and his three daughters....
, a number of guest roles on Hogan's Heroes
Hogan's Heroes

Hogan's Heroes is an American television situation comedy that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network....
 and the role of Dr. Philip Boyce on Star Trek
Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Trek is a science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that aired from September 8, 1966 to September 2, 1969. Though the original series was titled simply Star Trek, it has acquired the retronym Star Trek: The Original Series to distinguish it from the spinoffs that followed, and from the Star Trek fi...
s first pilot episode "The Cage
The Cage (TOS episode)

"The Cage" is the original pilot episode of the Star Trek: The Original Series science fiction series and Star Trek. It was completed in early 1965, but not broadcast on television in its complete form until 1988....
". Another memorable role was as an evil Martian invader who tricks a busload of people and two policemen to take an unsafe bridge and fall to their deaths in episode 64 in the second season of the The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)

The Twilight Zone is a science fiction anthology series United States television series created by Rod Serling. The original series ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964 and remains television syndication to this day....
 titled "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up
Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up

"Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone ....
" and "The Lateness of the Hour" also in the second season of The Twilight Zone. Hoyt also made a memorable appearance as the Dr. Frankenstein-inspired Dr. Mendoza in The Monkees
The Monkees

The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
 episode "I Was a Teenage Monster
List of The Monkees episodes

This is a list of episodes of the television series The_Monkees_ which ran on NBC from 1966 in television to 1968 in television, every Monday night at 7:30/6:30 Central Time....
." He appeared in one Shakespearean film, MGM's Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar (1953 film)

Julius Caesar is an MGM film adaptation of the Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the uncredited screenplay, and produced by John Houseman....
, reprising the role of Decius Brutus (a.k.a Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus
Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus

Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus was a Ancient Rome politician and general of the 1st century BC and one of Julius Caesar's assassins....
), which he had played in the famous 1937 Mercury Theatre production starring Orson Welles. He also appeared as KAOS agent Conrad Bunny in the Get Smart
Get Smart

Get Smart is an United States comedy television series that Satire the Spy fiction genre. Created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, the show starred Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, and Barbara Feldon as Agent 99 of CONTROL, a secret U.S....
 episode, "Our Man in Toyland". The last role of his acting career was an extended passionate monologue from the Gospel of Mark
Gospel of Mark

The Gospel of Mark is the second of the four canonical gospels in the New Testament and was probably the first of the three synoptic gospels to be written....
. In 1953, he portrayed Elijah in the biblical film Sins of Jezebel.

Hoyt, who died of lung cancer
Lung cancer

Lung cancer is a disease of uncontrolled cell growth in tissue of the lung. This growth may lead to metastasis, which is the invasion of adjacent tissue and infiltration beyond the lungs....
 in Santa Cruz, California
Santa Cruz, California

Santa Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California, California in the United States of America. As of the United States Census, 2000, Santa Cruz had a total population of 54,593....
, was also in the film The Conqueror
The Conqueror

----The Conqueror is a 1956 in film epic film produced by Howard Hughes and starring John Wayne as the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan. Other performers included Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, and Pedro Armend?riz....
. The movie was shot in Nevada while atomic bomb tests were being conducted nearby and is infamous for the number of cast members dying of cancer
Cancer

Cancer is a class of diseases in which a group of cell display uncontrolled growth , invasion , and sometimes metastasis . These three malignant properties of cancers differentiate them from benign tumors, which are self-limited, do not invade or metastasize....
. His ashes were given to his wife in Soquel, California
Soquel, California

Soquel is a census-designated place in Santa Cruz County, California, California, United States. The population was 5,081 at the 2000 census....
.

Partial filmography

  • O.S.S.
    O.S.S. (film)

    O.S.S. is a 1946 in film war film starring Alan Ladd and Geraldine Fitzgerald as American spies dropped behind German lines in World War II....
     (1946) (film debut)
  • My Favorite Brunette
    My Favorite Brunette

    My Favorite Brunette is a 1947 in film Film Parody#Film genres movie Private investigators and the film noir style. Starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour, it also features Lon Chaney, Jr....
     (1947)
  • The Unfaithful
    The Unfaithful

    The Unfaithful is a 1947 film noir based on the W. Somerset Maugham penned 1940 Bette Davis movie, The Letter . The film was directed by Vincent Sherman, who also directed the 1947 Ann Sheridan movie Nora Prentiss....
     (1947)
  • Brute Force (1947)
  • To the Ends of the Earth
    To the Ends of the Earth (film)

    To the Ends of the Earth is a United States crime film noir directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Sidney Buchman and Jay Richard Kennedy....
     (1948)
  • Winter Meeting
    Winter Meeting

    Winter Meeting is a United States drama film directed by Bretaigne Windust. The screenplay by Catherine Turney is based on a novel by Ethel Vance....
     (1948)
  • The Bribe
    The Bribe

    The Bribe is a United States crime film noir directed by Robert Z. Leonard and written by Marguerite Roberts, based on a story written by Frederick Nebel....
     (1949)
  • The Lady Gambles
    The Lady Gambles

    The Lady Gambles is a 1949 in film drama film starring Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Preston . A woman accompanies her husband to Las Vegas Strip and becomes addicted to gambling....
     (1949)
  • Trapped
    Trapped (1949 film)

    Trapped is a semidocumentary film noir directed by Richard Fleischer, written by George Zuckerman and Earl Felton. The drama features Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt, and others....
     (1949)
  • Everybody Does It
    Everybody Does It

    Everybody Does It is a 1949 in film comedy film starring Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell and Celeste Holm.In the film, a businessman's wife tries to become an opera star....
     (1949)
  • Quebec
    Quebec (1951 film)

    Quebec is a 1951 American historical drama film directed by George Templeton and written by Alan Le May set in 1837. It stars John Drew Barrymore and centers on a fictional account of the Lower Canada Rebellion....
     (1951)
  • Lost Continent
    Lost Continent (1951 film)

    The Lost Continent is a science fiction film, starring Cesar Romero and Chick Chandler. It was directed by Sam Newfield. This independent film was only shot in eleven days, on a low budget....
     (1951)
  • When Worlds Collide
    When Worlds Collide (film)

    When Worlds Collide is a 1951 in film science fiction film based on the 1932 When Worlds Collide co-written by Philip Gordon Wylie and Edwin Balmer....
     (1951)
  • The Black Castle
    The Black Castle

    The Black Castle is a mystery film, released by Universal Pictures in 1952 in film. It was produced by William Alland, who would have better success two years later with Creature from the Black Lagoon....
     (1952)
  • Androcles and the Lion (1952)
  • Julius Caesar
    Julius Caesar (1953 film)

    Julius Caesar is an MGM film adaptation of the Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the uncredited screenplay, and produced by John Houseman....
     (1953)
  • Casanova's Big Night
    Casanova's Big Night

    Casanova's Big Night is a 1954 in film comedy film starring Bob Hope, which is a Parody of swashbuckling historical adventure films.Hope plays a man who impersonates Giacomo Casanova, the great lover....
     (1954)
  • The Student Prince
    The Student Prince (film)

    The Student Prince was a popular 1954 in film Cinemascope color film musical strangely starring, as the credits read, "the singing voice of Mario Lanza"....
     (1954)
  • Désirée (1954)
  • The Big Combo
    The Big Combo

    The Big Combo is an United States film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis and stylistically photographed by cinematographer and noir icon John Alton with music by David Raksin....
     (1955)
  • Blackboard Jungle
    Blackboard Jungle

    Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 in film social commentary film about teachers in an inner-city school. It is based on the Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter....
     (1955)
  • Moonfleet
    Moonfleet (1955 film)

    Moonfleet is a 1955 film by Fritz Lang which was inspired by the novel Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner, though significant alterations were made in the characters and plot....
     (1955)
  • Trial
    Trial (1955 film)

    Trial is a 1955 film directed by Mark Robson and written by Don Mankiewicz . It stars Glenn Ford, Dorothy McGuire and Arthur Kennedy ....
     (1955)
  • Forever, Darling
    Forever, Darling

    Forever, Darling is a United States romantic comedy film with fantasy overtones, starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, and James Mason, and directed by Alexander Hall....
     (1956)
  • The Conqueror
    The Conqueror

    ----The Conqueror is a 1956 in film epic film produced by Howard Hughes and starring John Wayne as the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan. Other performers included Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, and Pedro Armend?riz....
     (1956)
  • Death of a Scoundrel
    Death of a Scoundrel

    Death of a Scoundrel is a 1956 film starring George Sanders , Zsa Zsa Gabor, George Brent, and Yvonne De Carlo. Death of a Scoundrel is a fictionalized adaptation of the life and mysterious death of Serge Rubenstein....
     (1956)
  • Novel Appeal
    Novel Appeal

    Novel Appeal is a 1957 made-for-television film directed by Arthur Hiller, written by Zoe Akins and John Nesbitt , produced by Hal Roach Jr , and starring John Carradine and Claudette Colbert....
     (1957) (TV)
  • Baby Face Nelson
    Baby Face Nelson (film)

    Baby Face Nelson is a 1957 film directed by Don Siegel, starring Mickey Rooney as Baby Face Nelson, and featuring Leo Gordon as John Dillinger....
     (1957)
  • Attack of the Puppet People
    Attack of the Puppet People

    Attack of the Puppet People is a 1958 in film Black-and-white science fiction film Horror film directed, produced and written by Bert I. Gordon....
     (1958)
  • Never So Few
    Never So Few

    Never So Few is a 1959 film directed by John Sturges and starring Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Charles Bronson and Steve McQueen....
     (1959)
  • Spartacus
    Spartacus (film)

    Spartacus is a 1960 in film historical film drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the Spartacus by Howard Fast about the historical life of Spartacus and the Third Servile War....
     (1960)
  • Merrill's Marauders
    Merrill's Marauders (film)

    Merrill's Marauders is a 1962 in film Cinemascope war film directed and co-written by Samuel Fuller based on the exploits of the jungle warfare unit of the same name in the Burma Campaign....
     (1962)
  • Cleopatra
    Cleopatra (1963 film)

    Cleopatra is a 1963 in film film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The screenplay was adapted by Sidney Buchman, Ben Hecht, Ranald MacDougall, and Joseph L....
     (1963)
  • X
    X (1963 film)

    X is a 1963 science fiction/Horror film motion picture.Directed by Roger Corman from a script by Ray Russell and Robert Dillon, X stars Ray Milland as Dr....
    , also known as X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
  • The Glass Cage (1964)
  • The Time Travelers
    The Time Travelers (1964 film)

    The Time Travelers is a science fiction film directed by B-movie director Ib Melchior that inspired the 1966 TV series The Time Tunnel as well as the 1967 remake Journey to the Center of Time....
     (1964)
  • Two on a Guillotine
    Two on a Guillotine

    Two on a Guillotine is a 1965 in film United States Horror film produced and directed by William Conrad. The screenplay by John Kneubuhl and Henry Slesar is based on a story by Slesar....
     (1965)
  • Duel at Diablo
    Duel at Diablo

    Duel at Diablo is a 1966 in film Western starring James Garner and Sidney Poitier. Based on Marvin H. Albert's novel Apache Rising, the film was written by Albert and Michael M....
     (1966)
  • Flesh Gordon
    Flesh Gordon

    Flesh Gordon is a 1974 science fiction film and comedy film adventure film. It is an erotic spoof of the Flash Gordon serial films from the 1930s....
     (1974)
  • Desperately Seeking Susan
    Desperately Seeking Susan

    Desperately Seeking Susan is a 1985 in film directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Rosanna Arquette and Madonna ....
     (1985)


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