John Hoyt Biography
Born: October 05, 1904
Died: September 15, 1991
Yale grad John Hoyt had been a history instructor, acting teacher and nightclub comedian before linking up with Orson_Welles' Mercury Theatre in 1937. He remained with Welles until he joined the Army in 1945. After the war, the grey-haired, deadly-eyed Hoyt built up a screen reputation as one of most hissable "heavies" around, notably as the notorious political weathervane Talleyrand in Desiree (1954). He was a bit kinder onscreen as the Prophet Elijah in Sins of Jezebel. Nearly always associated with mainstream films, Hoyt surprised many of his professional friends when he agreed to co-star in the softcore porn spoof Flesh_Gordon; those closest to him, however, knew that Hoyt had been a bit of a Bohemian all his life, especially during his frequent nudist colony vacations. TV fans of the '80s generation will remember John Hoyt as Grandpa Stanley Kanisky on the TV sitcom Gimme a Break; those with longer memories might recall that Hoyt played the doctor who told Ben_Gazzara that he had only two years to live on the pilot for the 1960s TV series Run_For_Your_Life. Hoyt also holds a footnote in Star_Trek history playing the doctor in the first pilot episode, "The Cage." Hal Erickson, Rovi
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