Biography
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! (1981-87). Hoyt was born John...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Freeing “Trapped”
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Film noir expert Eddie Muller and others discuss the classic film Trapped.
Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn
2013
as Carmine
After being released from prison, Bobby goes back to the mob connected streets. When forced to make a life altering decision the truth is revealed tha...
Mulberry Street
2006
as Big Vic
A deadly infection breaks out in Manhattan, causing humans to devolve into blood-thirsty rat creatures. Six recently evicted tenants must survive the ...
The Last Request
2006
as Big Joe
Pop's last request is for his sons to continue the family name. When his brother dies trying, Jeff leaves the seminary and encounters crazy women and ...
The Pompatus of Love
1996
as Big Toe
Four guys sit around drinking beer and talking, trying to figure out the meaning of "the pompatus of love" (from the Steve Miller song "Joker") and an...
Creepy Classics
1987
as Mr. Franz - (archive footage)
A compilation of trailers for various horror and sci-fi films, narrated and hosted by Vincent Price.
Alvin Goes Back to School
1986
1986 NBC Saturday Morning preview special.
Desperately Seeking Susan
1985
as Space Commander
A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken ...
Forty Days of Musa Dagh
1982
Armenian guerrilla troops fight against the Turkish forces on the mountain of Musa Dagh.
Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes
1980
as Barlow
The fugitives Burke, Virdon and Galen try to save the life of a human blacksmith and his son, whom gorilla leader Urko has threatened with death shoul...
The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes
1980
as Barlow
Human astronauts Burke and Virdon, with their chimp companion Galen, are forced to become involved in the strange gladiatorial games of the district r...
Nero Wolfe
1979
as Hewitt
Gourmet Nero Wolfe interrupts his orchid-tending to take on the case of a lady tycoon who wants to know why she's under investigation by the FBI, only...
A Great Ride
1979
as Jukebox Drunk
Cocky, overconfident motocross champion Jim Dancer and his more mature and levelheaded bike racing buddy Steve Mitchell decide to trek from Mexico to ...
In Search of Historic Jesus
1979
as Synagogue Man #1
Re-created Biblical tableaux mixed with interviews.
The Winds of Kitty Hawk
1978
as Prof. Samuel Langley
The story of the Wright Brothers and their efforts to invent, build, and fly the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.
The Turning Point of Jim Malloy
1975
as Harry Longden
The son of a small-town doctor returns to his hometown after being kicked out of Yale, and begins a new career on the town's newspaper.
Flesh Gordon
1974
as Professor Gordon
Emperor Wang (the Perverted) is leader of the planet Porno and sends his mighty "Sex Ray" towards Earth, turning everyone into sex-mad fiends. Only on...
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
1972
as Minister
An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is finall...
The Intruders
1970
as Appleton
The James and Younger outlaw gangs ride into town, and it is up to the local marshal, who has lost both his nerve and his gun skills, to stop them.
Panic in the City
1968
as Dr. Milton Becker
An American agent is assigned to track down a renegade Soviet spy who is building an atomic device in Los Angeles and plans to destroy the city with i...
Winchester '73
1967
as Sunrider
TV Remake of the 1950 James Stewart Western movie of the same title has two brothers, one an ex-con the other a law officer, competing for possession ...
Fame Is the Name of the Game
1966
as Larkin
A brash, big-time investigative reporter, looking into the death of a call girl, uncovers her diary and tries to find her killer among the names conta...
Duel at Diablo
1966
as Chata
In Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the killer of his Native wife, and a housewife abandons he...
Gunpoint
1966
as Mayor Osborne
A young, determined sheriff and his posse chase a gang of murderous train robbers, and a kidnapped woman into New Mexico.
Operation C.I.A.
1965
as Wells
A young CIA agent is assigned to Saigon to stop a planned political assassination.
Young Dillinger
1965
as Dr. Wilson
The 1930s outlaw teams up with Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson and Homer Van Meter.
Asylum for a Spy
1965
as Lowell Ritchards
A spy wants to "come in from the cold" since his last assignment resulted in the death of two innocent people. But the service cannot let a man quit.
Two on a Guillotine
1965
as Attorney Carl Vickers
The daughter of a dead magician who accidentally killed his wife, her mother, while performing a guillotine trick must spend the night in his house in...
The Time Travelers
1964
as Dr. Varno
Research scientists experimenting with time warps are accidentally propelled forward into an unbearable future.
The Glass Cage
1964
as Lt. Max Westerman
Two detectives investigate the murder of a local businessman by a mysterious woman.
The Glass Cage
1964
Writer
Two detectives investigate the murder of a local businessman by a mysterious woman.
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
1963
as Willard Benson
A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences.
Cleopatra
1963
as Cassius
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his g...
Merrill's Marauders
1962
as Gen. Joseph Stilwell
Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka "Merrill's Marauders", behind J...
Spartacus
1960
as Caius
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena,...
Never So Few
1959
as Col. Reed
A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.
Curse of the Undead
1959
as Dr. Carter
A mysterious epidemic has struck an Old West frontier town and young girls are falling deathly ill. Doc Carter, his lovely daughter Dolores, and preac...
Riot in Juvenile Prison
1959
as Col. Ernest Walton
When the shootings of two juvenile inmates bring public protest, a psychologist is brought in to see if he can do anything to control the problems pea...
Attack of the Puppet People
1958
as Mr. Franz
A deranged scientist creates a ray that can shrink people down to doll size.
The Beast of Budapest
1958
as Prof. Ernst Tolnai
Archival footage combined with new footage re-creates the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. It is also a love story between a devout communist woman and the ...
Baby Face Nelson
1957
as Samuel F. Parker
Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” (Mickey Rooney) robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll (Carolyn Jones).
God Is My Partner
1957
as Gordon Palmer
A retired surgeon starts giving away money to religious causes and his family tries to file suit, claiming that he's incompetent.
Sierra Stranger
1957
as Sheriff
A prospector becomes a small town outcast after he rescues a man about to be lynched.
Death of a Scoundrel
1956
as Mr. O'Hara
A Czech refugee uses women to advance his business interest.
Wetbacks
1956
as Steve Bodine
Former Coastguardsmen Jim Benson is about to lose his boat when a couple approaches him for a fishing charter. Jim departs just ahead of the Sherrif w...
The Come On
1956
as Harold King, alias Harley Kendrick
A con woman tries to swindle her partner-in-crime husband with the help of one of her former marks. But is she to be trusted?
Mohawk
1956
as Butler
An artist working in a remote army post is juggling the storekeeper's daughter, his fiancée newly arrived from the east, and the Indian Chief's daught...
The Conqueror
1956
as Shaman
Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan.
Forever, Darling
1956
as Bill Finlay
Susan and Lorenzo have been married for over five years and they are starting to drift apart. So into her life comes an angel, which only Susan can se...
Trial
1955
as Ralph Castillo
A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute pr...
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
1955
as William Travers Jerome
Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit (Joan Collins) is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford White (Ray Milland) and wealthy but u...
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1955
as Poole
Adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic. Part of Chrysler sponsored series "Climax!"
Moonfleet
1955
as Magistrate Maskew
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old frien...
The Purple Mask
1955
as Rochet
France, 1803: 11 years after the Revolution, a royalist underground is led by a new 'Scarlet Pimpernel', the Purple Mask, who rescues nobles in distre...
Blackboard Jungle
1955
as Mr. Warneke
Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadi...
The Big Combo
1955
as Nils Dreyer
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfr...
Désirée
1954
as Talleyrand
In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-B...
The Student Prince
1954
as Prime Minister
A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty.
Casanova's Big Night
1954
as Maggiorin
Italy 1757, Pippo Popolino, a lowly tailor, disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance the attractive widow Francesca. He little susp...
Sins of Jezebel
1953
as Elijah
The aging king of Israel, Ahab, falls under the influence of a young and beautiful but scheming Pagan woman named Jezebel and, against the advice of h...
Julius Caesar
1953
as Decius Brutus
The assassination of the would-be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and for the republic.
Androcles and the Lion
1952
as Cato
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared...
The Black Castle
1952
as Count Steiken
A man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.
Loan Shark
1952
as Vince Phillips
A vicious loan shark ring has been preying on factory workers. When several workers at a tire factory suffer violence at the hands of the loan sharker...
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951
as Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
When Worlds Collide
1951
as Sydney Stanton
When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close enou...
Lost Continent
1951
as Michael Rostov
When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are joined by three Air Force men in tracking it down ...
New Mexico
1951
as Sgt. Harriton
Captain Hunt of the cavalry is trying to promote good relations with the Indian chief Acoma. But Hunt's superiors in the military insist on pursuing p...
Quebec
1951
as Father Antoine
Story of a revolt against England in 1830s Canada.
Inside Straight
1951
as Flutey Johnson
A tycoon rises to the top in 19th-century San Francisco through greed and corruption.
The Company She Keeps
1951
as Judge Kendall
A lady con artist sets out to steal her parole officer's fiance.
The Lawless
1950
as Ed Ferguson
A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.
Outside the Wall
1950
as Jack Bernard
Larry Nelson, paroled from prison after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence, is determined to not fall into the clutches of the law again,...
Everybody Does It
1949
as Wilkins
Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to...
Trapped
1949
as Agent John Downey
Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plat...
The Great Dan Patch
1949
as Ben Lathrop
David Palmer, a young chemist, returns to his father's Indiana farm, to marry a local school teacher, Ruth Treadwell. David meets again his father's h...
The Lady Gambles
1949
as Dr. Rojac
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the ca...
The Bribe
1949
as Gibbs
United States Federal agent Rigby travels to the Central American island Carlotta to investigate a stolen aircraft engines smuggling racket.
The Decision of Christopher Blake
1948
as Mr. Caldwell
A young boy begins to have fantasies when he learns his parents are planning to divorce. Director Peter Godfrey's 1948 drama stars Ted Donaldson, Alex...
Sealed Verdict
1948
as Otto Steigmann
John Hoyt plays a high-ranking Nazi being prosecuted by an army tribunal in the aftermath of World War II. Sentenced to death, the general appeals to ...
Winter Meeting
1948
as Stacy Grant
A repressed poetess and an embittered war hero help each other cope with their problems.
To the Ends of the Earth
1948
as George C. Shannon
A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.
Brute Force
1947
as Spencer
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of e...
The Unfaithful
1947
as Det. Lt. Reynolds
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her l...
My Favorite Brunette
1947
as Dr. Lundau
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for ...
O.S.S.
1946
as Col. Paul Meister
The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII...