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Arthur Hoyt

 
Actor: Arthur Hoyt
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  • Born: May 19, 1873 in Georgetown, Colorado
  • Died: Jan 04, 1953 in Woodland Hills, California
  • Occupation: Actor, Director
  • Active: '20s-'30s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
  • Career Highlights: The Lost World, Camille, The Coming of Amos
  • First Major Screen Credit: Station Content (1918)

Biography

Stage actor/director Arthur Hoyt first stepped before the movie cameras in 1916. During the silent era, Hoyt played sizeable roles in such major productions as Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) and The Lost World (1925). In sound films, he tended to be typecast as a henpecked husband or downtrodden office worker. One of his mostly fondly remembered talkie performances was as befuddled motel-court manager Zeke in It Happened One Night (1934). Despite advancing age, he was busy in the late 1930s, appearing in as many as 12 pictures per year. In his last active decade, Arthur Hoyt was a member of writer/director Preston Sturges' unofficial stock company, beginning with The Great McGinty (1940) and ending with The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Arthur Hoyt
Born 19 March 1874
Georgetown, Colorado U.S.
Died 4 January 1953 (aged 78)
Woodland Hills, California U.S.
Occupation actor
Years active 1905–1947

Arthur Hoyt (19 March 1874–4 January 1953) was an American film character actor who appeared in more than 275 films in his 34 year film career, about a third of them silent films.[1] He was a brother of Harry O. Hoyt who directed the first The Lost World(1925), and a film in which Arthur co-starred.

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Career

Born in Georgetown, Colorado in 1874, Hoyt made his Broadway debut in 1905[2] in a play The Prince Consort, which was not a success.[3] He also appeared in Ferenc Molnár's The Devil in 1908,[4] and made his final stand on the Great White Way in The Great Name in 1911.[5].

Hoyt made one silent movie in 1914,[1] a comedy short called The Scrub Lady,[6] but his film acting career did not begin in earnest until 1916 when he appeared in another short, The Heart of a Show Girl[7]. From that time until 1944, not a year passed without a film being released that Hoyt had acted in – and frequently a number of them, up to a dozen or so.[1] Hoyt had large roles in such silent films as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), Souls for Sale (1923), and The Lost World (1925). He also directed two silent features, Station Content starring Gloria Swanson[8] and High Stakes,[9], and was the casting director for another, Her American Husband,[10], all in 1918.

Hoyt's final silent film, his 80th, was The Rush Hour (1928), which starred Marie Provost.[11] Unlike her, Hoyt survived the transition to talkies, although he generally played much smaller roles in sound films – the 5'6" Hoyt was often cast as a beleaguered husband, an exploited nine-to-fiver or a nervous politician[12][13] – and he frequently did not receive screen credit for his performances. His first sound film was 1928's My Man, a musical starring Fanny Brice,[14] and the pace of his work did not slack off in the sound era. He may be best remembered as the motor-court manager who hassles Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in Frank Capra's It Happened One Night (1934).[12]

In the 1940s, when he was nearing the end of his career, Hoyt was part of Preston Sturges' unofficial "stock company" of character actors, appearing in all the films written and directed by Sturges from 1940 to 1947.[15]

At the age of 70, Hoyt, who was sometimes billed as "Mr. Arthur Hoyt",[16] retired from acting. The last film he appeared in, Sturges' The Sin of Harold Diddlebock was filmed in late 1944 and early 1945, although it wasn't released until 1947.[17] Hoyt died at the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills, California on 4 January 1953, and is buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles, California.[18]

Selected filmography

Silent
Sound

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Arthur Hoyt at the Internet Movie Database
  2. ^ Arthur Hoyt at the Internet Broadway Database
  3. ^ The Prince Consort at the Internet Broadway Database
  4. ^ The Devil at the Internet Broadway Database
  5. ^ The Great Name at the Internet Broadway Database
  6. ^ The Scrub Lady at the Internet Movie Database
  7. ^ The Heart of a Show Girl at the Internet Movie Database
  8. ^ Station Content at the Internet Movie Database
  9. ^ High Stakes at the Internet Movie Database
  10. ^ Her American Husband at the Internet Movie Database
  11. ^ The Rush Hour at the Internet Movie Database
  12. ^ a b Erickson, Hal Biography (Allmovie)
  13. ^ Edwards, Robert Biography (Find A Grave)
  14. ^ My Man at the Internet Movie Database
  15. ^ Hoyt appeared in The Great McGinty, Christmas in July, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, The Palm Beach Story, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Hail the Conquering Hero, The Great Moment and The Sin of Harold Diddlebock. Earlier, he had also appeared in Easy Living (1937), which Sturges wrote.
  16. ^ Arthur Hoyt at the TCM Movie Database
  17. ^ The Sin of Harold Diddlebock at the TCM Movie Database (Notes)
  18. ^ Arthur Hoyt at Find a Grave

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