AKA: John Hoysradt
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 10/05/1904
Birthplace: Bronxville, New York, USA
Death Date: 09/15/1991
Lean and gaunt with blue eyes and silver hair, Hoyt was a former history teacher and stand-up comedian who entered films after considerable stage work with Orson Welles's Mercury Theater in the late 1930s and early 40s. A prolific character actor in over 75 movies, Hoyt often played scientists, aristocrats and assorted authority figures, as well as turning in his fair share of mad professors.
Taught history at Groton School in Massachusetts for two years
Appeared with several regional theater groups
1931
Made Broadway debut in William Boliho's "Overture"
1932
Worked as "ghost" pianist, playing offstage for Katharine Cornell who was portraying a concert artist in Sidney Howard's "Alien Corn"
Performed in the Ziegfeld Follies, sang and did impressions in NY nightclubs
