Cast
John Hoyt
Acting
Cast
John Hoyt
Known for
Acting
Born
1905-10-05
From
Bronxville, New York, USA
Died
1991-09-15
Also known as John Glen Hoyt, John McArthur Hoysradt
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.
★7.0
MOVIE1963
Cleopatra
as Cassius
★7.5
MOVIE1960
Spartacus
as Caius
★6.1
MOVIE1985
Desperately Seeking Susan
as Space Commander
★6.6
MOVIE1954
Désirée
as Talleyrand
★7.1
MOVIE1953
Julius Caesar
as Decius Brutus
★7.3
MOVIE1947
Brute Force
as Spencer
★6.9
MOVIE1955
Trial
as Ralph Castillo
★6.4
MOVIE1951
When Worlds Collide
as Sydney Stanton
★7.3
MOVIE1965
Young Dillinger
as Dr. Wilson
★5.5
MOVIE1959
Never So Few
as Col. Reed
MOVIE2019
Freeing “Trapped”
as Self (archive footage)
★4.8
MOVIE1974
Flesh Gordon
as Professor Gordon
★6.7
MOVIE1951
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
as Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
★5.9
MOVIE1952
Androcles and the Lion
as Cato
★6.1
MOVIE1954
Casanova's Big Night
as Maggiorin
★6.1
MOVIE1949
The Lady Gambles
as Dr. Rojac
★6.0
MOVIE1956
Death of a Scoundrel
as Mr. O'Hara
★6.4
MOVIE1966
Duel at Diablo
as Chata
★6.6
MOVIE1963
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
as Willard Benson
★5.6
MOVIE1957
Baby Face Nelson
as Samuel F. Parker
★6.1
MOVIE1955
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
as William Travers Jerome
★7.0
MOVIE1955
The Big Combo
as Nils Dreyer
★5.8
MOVIE1955
The Purple Mask
as Rochet
★6.5
MOVIE1955
Moonfleet
as Magistrate Maskew
★3.6
MOVIE1956
The Conqueror
as Shaman
★6.2
MOVIE1951
The Company She Keeps
as Judge Kendall
★7.0
MOVIE1951
Quebec
as Father Antoine
★6.9
MOVIE1955
Blackboard Jungle
as Mr. Warneke
★5.5
MOVIE1959
Curse of the Undead
as Dr. Carter
★6.6
MOVIE1947
My Favorite Brunette
as Dr. Lundau
★4.1
MOVIE1996
The Pompatus of Love
as Big Toe
★5.6
MOVIE1968
Panic in the City
as Dr. Milton Becker
★5.1
MOVIE1964
The Time Travelers
as Dr. Varno
★5.9
MOVIE1947
The Unfaithful
as Det. Lt. Reynolds
★3.6
MOVIE1951
New Mexico
as Sergeant Harriton
★6.2
MOVIE1962
Merrill's Marauders
as Gen. Joseph Stilwell
MOVIE1985
The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There
★6.2
MOVIE1965
Two on a Guillotine
as Attorney Carl Vickers
★5.8
MOVIE1964
The Glass Cage
as Lt. Max Westerman
★3.8
MOVIE1948
The Decision of Christopher Blake
as Mr. Caldwell
★4.0
MOVIE1982
Forty Days of Musa Dagh
as General Waggenheim
★6.0
MOVIE1959
Riot in Juvenile Prison
as Col. Ernest Walton
★3.6
MOVIE1951
Lost Continent
as Michael Rostov
★5.9
MOVIE1948
To the Ends of the Earth
as George C. Shannon
★5.4
MOVIE2006
Mulberry Street
as Big Vic
★5.6
MOVIE1956
Mohawk
as Butler
★5.0
MOVIE1970
The Intruders
as Appleton
★6.9
MOVIE1946
O.S.S.
as Col. Paul Meister
★7.0
MOVIE1961
Alcatraz Express
as Capone's Attorney
★6.9
MOVIE1956
Forever, Darling
as Bill Finlay
★6.4
MOVIE1952
The Black Castle
as Count Steiken
★6.2
MOVIE1966
Gunpoint
as Mayor Osborne
★5.7
MOVIE1952
Loan Shark
as Vince Phillips
★6.4
MOVIE1987
Creepy Classics
as Mr. Franz - (archive footage)
★6.1
MOVIE1950
Outside the Wall
as Jack Bernard
★5.8
MOVIE1953
Sins of Jezebel
as Elijah
★8.0
MOVIE1958
The Beast of Budapest
as Prof. Ernst Tolnai
MOVIE1978
The Winds of Kitty Hawk
as Prof. Samuel Langley
★5.2
MOVIE1956
The Come On
as Harold King, alias Harley Kendrick
★6.0
MOVIE1965
Operation C.I.A.
as Wells
★8.0
MOVIE1965
Asylum for a Spy
as Lowell Ritchards
★6.3
MOVIE1954
The Student Prince
as Prime Minister
★5.9
MOVIE1950
The Lawless
as Ed Ferguson
★6.3
MOVIE1949
The Bribe
as Gibbs
★2.1
MOVIE2006
The Last Request
as Big Joe
★6.0
MOVIE1955
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Poole
★5.9
MOVIE1956
Wetbacks
as Steve Bodine
★3.9
MOVIE2013
Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn
as Carmine
★5.5
MOVIE1979
In Search of Historic Jesus
as Synagogue Man #1
★7.0
MOVIE1966
Fame Is the Name of the Game
as Larkin
★7.0
MOVIE1948
Sealed Verdict
as Otto Steigmann
★5.1
MOVIE1958
Attack of the Puppet People
as Mr. Franz
★7.5
MOVIE1957
God Is My Partner
as Gordon Palmer
★6.1
MOVIE1949
Trapped
as Agent John Downey
★6.7
MOVIE1967
Winchester '73
as Sunrider
★5.5
MOVIE1949
The Great Dan Patch
as Ben Lathrop
★6.6
MOVIE1948
Winter Meeting
as Stacy Grant
★5.0
MOVIE1957
Sierra Stranger
as Sheriff
★7.5
MOVIE1980
The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes
as Barlow
★8.0
MOVIE1972
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
as Minister
★4.9
MOVIE1951
Inside Straight
as Flutey Johnson
★8.3
MOVIE1979
Nero Wolfe
as Hewitt
★3.5
MOVIE1979
A Great Ride
as Jukebox Drunk
★7.5
MOVIE1980
Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes
as Barlow
★5.0
MOVIE1986
Alvin Goes Back to School
★8.5
MOVIE1949
Everybody Does It
as Wilkins
★8.0
MOVIE1975
The Turning Point of Jim Malloy
as Harry Longden