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.
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