John Hoyt
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John Hoyt in The Big Combo
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| Born |
John McArthur Hoysradt October 5, 1905 Bronxville, New York, U.S. |
| Died | September 15, 1991 (aged 85) Santa Cruz, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Lung cancer |
| Years active | 1946–1987 |
| Spouse(s) | Dorothy Oltman Haveman (1961–1991, his death) 1 child |
John Hoyt (October 5, 1905 – September 15, 1991) was an American film, stage, and television actor.
Hoyt was born John McArthur Hoysradt, 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. Before becoming an actor with Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre, he worked as a history instructor, acting teacher, and even (under his birth name) a nightclub comedian. In the latter activity, Hoyt performed 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. Hoyt soon shortened his surname when he began his movie career.
On the silver screen, he played the chillingly strict Principal Warneke in the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle with Glenn Ford.
In the popular western TV series Gunsmoke, in an episode titled "Bureaucrat" that aired on March 16, 1957, John Hoyt played the part of Rex Propter, a government agent sent to Dodge City, Kansas, in order to try to discover why it had such a bad reputation for gun violence.
Hoyt made five guest appearances on CBS's Perry Mason, including in the role of defendant Joseph Harrison in the 1958 episode "The Case of the Prodigal Parent", as the title character and defendant William Harper Caine in the 1961 episode "The Case of the Resolute Reformer," and as Darwin Norland in the 1963 episode "The Case of the Libelous Locket." He played an industrialist in the 1951 film When Worlds Collide. He guest-starred on the religion anthology series Crossroads.
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