John Hoyt

John Hoyt (born John McArthur Hoysradt, October 5, 1905 – September 15, 1991) was an American film, stage, and television actor. 2Early life Hoyt was born John McArthur Hoysradt in Bronxville, New York, the son of Warren J. Hoysradt, an investment banker, and his wife, Ethel Hoysradt, née Wolf. He attended the Hotchkiss School and Yale University, where he served on the editorial board of campus humor magazine The Yale Record. He obtained a bachelor's and a master's degree from Yale. He worked as a history instructor at the Groton School for two years. 2Stage Hoyt made his Broadway debut in 1931 in William Bolitho's play Overture. Some of his other Broadway credits in the early 1930s include Miracle at Verdun (1930), Lean Harvest (1931), and Clear All Wires (1932). He also performed with several regional theater groups, before joining Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre in 1937; and he would remain a member of the latter until he moved to Hollywood in 1945. Hoyt would continue to perform regularly in more Broadway productions throughout the remainder of the 1930s and into the 1940s. In that period he was cast in a broad range of plays, such as Valley Forge (1934), Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 (1935), The Masque of Kings (1936), Storm Over Patsy (1936) and Caesar (1937