Harry O. Hoyt

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Harry O. Hoyt (born August 6, 1885 in Minneapolis , Minnesota , † July 29, 1961 in Woodland Hills , California ) was an American film director and screenwriter .

life and career

Harry O. Hoyt graduated from Yale University in 1910 and initially worked as a lawyer, but began part-time sending scripts to film studios. This is how he entered the film business, initially as an author, and from 1915 as a director. Although film historians later attested him only average skills as a film director, he soon made the leap to larger productions and always found work. He shot with well-known stars of his time such as Monte Blue , Myrna Loy , Montagu Love , Clara Bow , Betty Compson , Wallace Beery and Bessie Love . The greatest success of Hoyt's career was the adventure film The Lost World from 1925, which is considered to be of cinematic historical importance because of its then extraordinary trick effects developed by Willis O'Brien and was included in the National Film Registry .

With the start of the sound film era in the late 1920s, Hoyt's success as a director quickly waned. His most famous sound film, the adventure film Jungle Bride with Anita Page , for example, is considered to be rather weak. After 1933 he only worked as a director for a few short films , instead he mainly returned to his original work as a screenwriter. He wrote in particular for inexpensive westerns and action films, and from 1913 to 1948 he worked as a writer on a total of over 80 films. His last job in the film business was in 1951 directing a short film called The Will to Win , which was about equestrian sport.

In The Lost World was also the actor Arthur Hoyt , Harry's eleven years older brother to see. Harry Hoyt had been married to Florence Stark since 1912 and they had two children. He died in July 1961 at the age of 76.

Filmography (selection)

As a director

  • 1915: For High Stakes (short film)
  • 1919: The Hand Invisible
  • 1924: The emigrants. Farmerlos (Sundown)
  • 1925: The Primrose Path
  • 1925: The Lost World (The Lost World)
  • 1926: The Belle of Broadway
  • 1927: The Return of Boston Blackie
  • 1927: Bitter Apples
  • 1933: Jungle Bride
  • 1948: Cinderella Horse (short film, also screenplay)
  • 1951: The Will to Win (short film)

Scriptwriter only

  • 1913: An Unjust Suspicion (short film)
  • 1937: Rustler's Valley
  • 1942: Lost Canyon
  • 1944: Lady in the Death House
  • 1945: The Missing Corpse

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Hoyt | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie. Retrieved June 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Harry Hoyt | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie. Retrieved June 11, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Signature Entertainment Memorabilia Auction . Heritage Capital Corporation, 2006, ISBN 978-1-59967-036-2 ( google.de [accessed June 11, 2018]).
  4. ^ Norwich bulletin. (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, November 27, 1912, Image 5 . November 27, 1912, ISSN  2377-5866 , p. 5 ( loc.gov [accessed June 11, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Hoyt, Harry O.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Minneapolis , Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1961
Place of death Woodland Hills , California