John Hoyt

Age: 85 (passed away Sep. 15th, 1991)
Height: 5' 10"

Birth Place: Bronxville, New York, USA
Born: Oct. 5th, 1905

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John Hoyt's Main TV Roles

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

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TRIVIA:

He had several guest appearances on the 1960s TV comedy show _"Hogan's Heroes" (1965)_ (qv). He mostly played a high-ranking German Officer in the show, but never the same role twice.
In 1937 he performed (as John Hoysradt) at the prestigious Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center. He headlined as 'the Master of Satire.'
He was the television spokesman in a series of Midas Muffler commercials in the 1960's.
One of a long list of actors and crew who worked on the film _The Conqueror (1956)_ (qv) in 1956 that died from cancer some years later, including 'John Wayne (I)' (qv), 'Susan Hayward (I)' (qv), 'Agnes Moorehead' (qv), and 'Pedro Armend�riz' (qv), who was the first to contract cancer and committed suicide rather than face the horror of it.
In his early years of performing, he put together a nightclub act doing impressions of famous celebrities. His impersonation of 'Noel Coward' (qv) was so good that he was hired for the original Broadway comedy "The Man Who Came to Dinner" in 1939, in which he played Beverley Carlton, a role obviously based on Coward himself.
Has one son and one grandson. His foster grandson, Lance Polland, is a Screenwriter and Director.

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