John Hoyt
John Hoyt was an American film theatre and television actor October 5 1905 September 15 1991 He began his acting career on Broadway later appearing in numerous films and television series He is perhaps best known for his roles in the films The Lawless 1950 When Worlds Collide 1951 Julius Caesar 1953 Blackboard Jungle 1955 Spartacus 1960 Cleopatra 1963 The Outer Limits 1964 Flesh Gordon 1974 and the television series Gimme a Break 198187 Hoyt was born John McArthur Hoysradt in Bronxville New York the son of Warren J Hoysradt an investment banker and his wife Ethel Hoysradt nÊe Wolf He attended the Hotchkiss School and Yale University where he served on the editorial board of campus humor magazine The Yale Record He received a bachelors and a masters degree from Yale He worked as a history instructor at the Groton School for two years Hoyt shortened his surname in 1945 the year before his film debut in OSS He became a familiar face in film noir and played the strict Principal Warneke in the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle starring Glenn Ford He played an industrialist in the 1951 film When Worlds Collide Hoyt appeared in one Shakespearean film MGMs Julius Caesar reprising the role of Decius Brutus or Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus whom he had played in the 1937 Mercury Theatre production In 1952 he played Cato in Androcles and the Lion In 1953 he portrayed Elijah in the biblical film Sins of Jezebel He had featured roles in the bigbudget sixties epics Spartacus and Cleopatra
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