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John Hoyt

 
 
Columbia Encyclopedia: John Wesley Hoyt
Hoyt, John Wesley, 1831-1912, American educator, b. Worthington, Ohio, grad. Ohio Wesleyan Univ., 1849. In Madison, Wis., he published the Wisconsin Farmer and Northwestern Cultivator. A founder of the Republican party and first president of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, he sponsored the establishment of the state agricultural college in a reorganization of the state university. From 1878 to 1882 he was governor of Wyoming Territory and from 1887 to 1890 served as first president of the Univ. of Wyoming. He devoted his later years to the promotion of a national university.
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Actor: John Hoyt
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  • Born: Oct 05, 1904 in Bronxville, New York
  • Died: Sep 15, 1991 in Santa Cruz, California
  • Occupation: Actor, Writer
  • Active: '40s-'60s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
  • Career Highlights: X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes, My Favorite Brunette, God Is My Partner
  • First Major Screen Credit: My Favorite Brunette (1947)

Biography

Yale grad John Hoyt had been a history instructor, acting teacher and nightclub comedian before linking up with Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre in 1937. He remained with Welles until he joined the Army in 1945. After the war, the grey-haired, deadly-eyed Hoyt built up a screen reputation as one of most hissable "heavies" around, notably as the notorious political weathervane Talleyrand in Desiree (1954). He was a bit kinder onscreen as the Prophet Elijah in Sins of Jezebel. Nearly always associated with mainstream films, Hoyt surprised many of his professional friends when he agreed to co-star in the softcore porn spoof Flesh Gordon; those closest to him, however, knew that Hoyt had been a bit of a Bohemian all his life, especially during his frequent nudist colony vacations. TV fans of the '80s generation will remember John Hoyt as Grandpa Stanley Kanisky on the TV sitcom Gimme a Break; those with longer memories might recall that Hoyt played the doctor who told Ben Gazzara that he had only two years to live on the pilot for the 1960s TV series Run For Your Life. Hoyt also holds a footnote in Star Trek history playing the doctor in the first pilot episode, "The Cage." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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John Hoyt
Born John McArthur Hoysradt
October 5, 1905(1905-10-05)
Bronxville, New York
Died September 15, 1991 (aged 85)
Santa Cruz, California
Years active 1946-1987
Spouse(s) Doroth Oltman Haveman (1961-1991) (his death)

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

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Early life

John Hoyt was born John Hoysradt. Before becoming an actor with Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre, the Yale University 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 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, 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. He also briefly appeared naked (shown only from the waist up) in the Roger Corman film X -- The Man With X-Ray Eyes (1963).

Television and film

Hoyt had a number of memorable television roles including the grandfather on Gimme a Break!, an industrialist in When Worlds Collide, a number of guest roles on Hogan's Heroes and the role of Dr. Philip Boyce on Star Trek's first pilot episode "The Cage". He 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". Hoyt also made a memorable appearance as the Dr. Frankenstein-inspired Dr. Mendoza in The Monkees episode "I Was a Teenage Monster." He 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 famous 1937 Mercury Theatre production starring Orson Welles. He also appeared as KAOS agent Conrad Bunny in the Get Smart episode, "Our Man in Toyland". The last role of his acting career was an extended passionate monologue from the Gospel of Mark. In 1953, he portrayed Elijah in the biblical film Sins of Jezebel.

Hoyt died of prostate cancer in Santa Cruz, California. His ashes were take by his wife Dorothy to a long time friend's property in Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, California.

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