Job Actor
Years active 1946-87
Known for Scientists, period aristocrats, Nazi officers, prison wardens, upper-class crooks, mad professors
Top Roles Decius Brutus, Bill Finlay, Dr. Willard Benson, Stacy Grant, Prime Minister Von Mark
Top GenresDrama, Crime, Romance, Film Noir, Adventure, Action
Top TopicsWorld War II, Gangsters, Book-Based
Top Collaborators , , ,
Shares birthday with Louise Dresser, Larry Fine, John Alton  see more..

John Hoyt Overview:

Character actor, John Hoyt, was born John McArthur Hoysradt on Oct 5, 1905 in Bronxville, NY. Hoyt died at the age of 86 on Sep 15, 1991 in Santa Cruz, CA .

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John Hoyt was a former historian and drama teacher who only became a full-time actor after World War II. He played scientists, period aristocrats, Nazi officers, prison wardens and upper-class crooks, as well as a few mad professors in horror films. He has also done impressions in nightclubs, and was the Warden in the movie "Brute Force".

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Illustrated Dictionary of Film Character Actors).

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John Hoyt Quotes:

Sydney Stanton: Your salvation doesn't interest me; mine does.


Joe Collins: [Spencer is wavering about whether to join in with Joe's escape plan] Spencer. In or out? No guarantees go with this break. It's all or nothing. But you've gotta' make up your mind now. Now! Either way, no hard feelings.
Spencer: [after long, thoughtful pause] With you, Joe. I'll play along.
Robert 'Soldier' Becker: I never thought different.
Spencer: Neither did I.


Spencer: You know, I was just thinking. An insurance company could go flat broke in this prison.


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One of a long list of actors and crew who worked on the film The Conqueror (1956) in 1956 that died from cancer some years later, including John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, and Pedro Armendáriz, who was the first to contract cancer and committed suicide rather than face the horror of it.

He had several guest appearances on the 1960s TV comedy show "Hogan's Heroes" (1965). He mostly played a high-ranking German Officer in the show, but never the same role twice.

One of the very few actors to have appeared in both the original Star Trek series and the original Battlestar Galactica.

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