Edward Hoyt
actor
- Birth name:
- Edward Nehemiah Hoyt
- Born:
- 1859-05, Auburn, New York, USA
- Died:
- 1920-02-23, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Professions:
- actor
Biography
May 1859 found Edward Hoyt drawing his first breath in Auburn, New York, a lakeside town that could never have guessed one of its sons would trade its quiet streets for the flicker of silent-film studios. By 1916 he had stepped before the cameras, lending his weathered presence to *Merely Mary Ann* and *Little Miss Happiness*, then rekindled Puritan torment as a stern Puritan in 1917’s *The Scarlet Letter*. Off-screen he shared life—and a name—with his wife, Fanny Hoyt. His own final curtain fell in Chicago on 23 February 1920, but those fleeting celluloid shadows still keep his face alive.
