1. John Hoyt began his acting career on Broadway, later appearing in numerous films and television series.
27 Facts About John Hoyt
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John Hoyt attended the Hotchkiss School and Yale University, where he served on the editorial board of campus humor magazine The Yale Record.
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John Hoyt received a bachelor's and a master's degree from Yale.
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John Hoyt worked as a history instructor at the Groton School for two years.
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John Hoyt performed with several regional theater groups, and then joined Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre in 1937; he remained a member of the troupe until he moved to Hollywood in 1945 after his army service.
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John Hoyt continued to perform regularly in Broadway productions throughout the 1930s and into the 1940s.
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John Hoyt worked as a stand-up comedian, sometimes both acting and doing comedy on the same day.
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John Hoyt shortened his surname in 1945, the year before his film debut in OS.
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John Hoyt became a familiar face in film noir and played the strict Principal Warneke in the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle, starring Glenn Ford.
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John Hoyt played an industrialist in the 1951 film When Worlds Collide.
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John Hoyt appeared in one Shakespearean film: MGM's Julius Caesar, reprising the role of Decius Brutus, whom he had played in the 1937 Mercury Theatre production.
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John Hoyt had featured roles in the big-budget sixties epics Spartacus and Cleopatra.
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On Gunsmoke, in a 1957 episode titled "Bureaucrat", John Hoyt played the part of Rex Propter, a government agent sent to Dodge City, Kansas, to determine why the town had such a bad reputation for gun violence.
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John Hoyt was cast in 1958 as rancher Clete Barron in the episode "Trouble in Paradise Valley" of Frontier Doctor.
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Also in 1958, John Hoyt was cast as a clothier in Leave It To Beavers "Wally's New Suit" episode.
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Later in 1959, on Laramie, John Hoyt portrayed mentally troubled military officer Colonel Brandon in "The General Must Die".
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Also in 1959, Hoyt was cast in an episode of The Rifleman, playing the character Gus Fremont, the cruel uncle of Johnny Clover.
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John Hoyt returned to The Rifleman in late 1960 as Civil War veteran Captain Josiah Perry, a man deranged by grief over the loss of his son, in the episode "The Martinet".
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John Hoyt appeared on The Untouchables in the 1960 episode "The Big Squeeze".
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John Hoyt guest-starred on at least three sitcoms: Bringing Up Buddy, Hogan's Heroes, and Petticoat Junction.
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John Hoyt guest-starred as Colonel Hollis in "Military School" on The Beverly Hillbillies.
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John Hoyt appeared twice in the first season of The Munsters, in episodes 12 and 35.
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In 1964, John Hoyt appeared in three episodes of The Outer Limits, most notably "The Bellero Shield".
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John Hoyt was a guest player in "The 14-Karat Gold Trombone" and "The Interview" episodes of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show.
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John Hoyt incarnated Bertrand Russell and Voltaire in episodes of Steve Allen's PBS series Meeting of Minds in the late 1970s.
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John Hoyt appeared as Sire Domra in episode 21 "Baltar's Escape" of Battlestar Galactica.
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John Hoyt was married twice, first to Marian Virginia Burns from 1935 to 1960, with whom he had one child, and later to Dorothy Oltman Haveman from 1961 to 1991, when he died of lung cancer in Santa Cruz, California.