Clegg Hoyt

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Clegg W. Hoyt
Birth name:	Clegg W. Hoyt
Date of birth:	10 December 1910
Place of birth:	Norwalk, Connecticut, USA
Date of death:	6 October 1967
Place of death:	Woodland Hills, California, USA
Roles:	Actor
Character(s):	Pitcairn

Clegg W. Hoyt (10 December 1910 – 6 October 1967; age 56) was an American actor who portrayed Pitcairn in the Star Trek: The Original Series first pilot episode, "The Cage", which was subsequently rebroadcast as "The Menagerie, Part I" and "The Menagerie, Part II" and the Star Trek: Discovery second season episode "If Memory Serves". His voice was dubbed by Robert C. Johnson. He filmed his scenes on Tuesday 1 December 1964 at Desilu Culver Stage 16.

He made his feature film debut with an uncredited role in Mohawk (1956). He then went on to appear in The True Story of Jesse James (1957, featuring his co-star from "The Cage", Jeffrey Hunter. He also had a supporting role in Seven Days in May (1964, featuring Original Series star Leonard Nimoy).

His other film credits include Al Capone (1959, with Robert Gist), Johnny Cool (1963), and the classic In the Heat of the Night (1967). He did not receive on-screen credit for any of these films.

Other Trek connections

• Crusader episode "The Boy on the Brink" (1956, with Brian Keith)
• Gunsmoke (1956, with Stanley Adams)
• Mohawk (1956, with John Hoyt)
• The True Story of Jesse James (1957, with Barry Atwater, Biff Elliot, Frank Gorshin, Jeffrey Hunter, Frank Overton, and Jason Wingreen)
• Gunsmoke (1958, with Robert Gist and Harry Townes)
• Al Capone (1959, with James Gregory, Nehemiah Persoff, Ron Soble, and Robert Gist)
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "Outlaw in Town" (1960, with Bernard Kates, Ricardo Montalban, and Brad Weston)
• Bonanza (1960, with Charles Maxwell)
• Bonanza (1961, with John Fiedler)
• The Untouchables (1961, with Michael Ansara, Brian Keith, Byron Morrow, and Alfred Ryder)
• The Young Savages (1961, with Stanley Adams, John Chandler, Mario Roccuzzo, William Sargent, and Pilar Seurat)
• That Touch of Mink (1962, with John Fiedler)
• Bonanza (1963, with Bob Miles)
• Johnny Cool (1963, with Hal Baylor, Elisha Cook, and Marc Lawrence)
• The Twilight Zone (1963, with Jason Wingreen)
• Advance to the Rear (1964, with Whit Bissell, Yvonne Craig, Gregg Palmer, Andrew Prine, and Janos Prohaska)
• Bonanza (1964, with Bob Miles)
• Gunsmoke (1964, with Elisha Cook)
• Seven Days in May (1964, with Whit Bissell and Leonard Nimoy)
• Bonanza (1965, with Michael Forest)
• The Great Race' (1965, with Robert Herron)
• In the Heat of the Night (1967, with Kermit Murdock, Anthony James, and Alan Oppenheimer)

External links

• Clegg Hoyt at the Internet Movie Database
• Clegg Hoyt at Wikipedia