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- Birth nameJohn McArthur Hoysradt
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- John Hoyt was born on October 5, 1905 in Bronxville, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for When Worlds Collide (1951), Spartacus (1960) and Brute Force (1947). He was married to Dorothy Marion Oltman and Marion Virginia Burns. He died on September 15, 1991 in Santa Cruz, California, USA.
- SpousesDorothy Marion Oltman(September 4, 1961 - September 15, 1991) (his death)Marion Virginia Burns(April 25, 1935 - March 10, 1960) (divorced, 1 child)
- His last screen role was as the crusty Grandpa Stanley Kanisky on Nell Carter's situation comedy Gimme a Break! (1981).
- Attended and graduated from Yale University, where he served on the editorial board of campus humor magazine "The Yale Record".
- One of a long list of actors and crew who worked on the film The Conqueror (1956) that passed away from cancer some years later, including John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead and Pedro Armendáriz, who was the first to contract cancer and committed suicide rather than face the horror of this.
- He was dubbed by Paul Frees in several scenes in Spartacus (1960).
- One of the very few actors to have appeared on both the original Star Trek (1966) series and the original series Battlestar Galactica (1978).
- (from Starlog magazine, 1986) I like keeping busy. Satan finds work for idle hands.
- Well, you have to accept typecasting to a point because it's your daily bread.
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