Arthur Hoyt was a character actor, appearing in more than 275 films in his 34-year career, about a third of them silent films. Hoyt had large roles in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), Souls for Sale (1923), and The Lost World (1925). He also directed two silent films. He generally played smaller roles in sound films, but was notable as the motor-court manager who hassles Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in Frank Capra's It Happened One Night (1934).