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Robert Francis Hoy (April 3, 1927 – February 8, 2010), was an American actor, stuntman and director.
Feb 28, 2010 · Although the raison d'etre of his profession is invisibility, the stuntman and stunts co-ordinator Robert Hoy, who has died of cancer aged 82, was one of the few whose name and face have...
Bob Hoy. Actor: The Enforcer. Robert F. Hoy was equally at home as a stuntman and as an actor. He appeared as Joe Butler on the acclaimed TV Western, The High Chaparral. He stunt-doubled for such actors as Charles Bronson, Tony Curtis, Robert Forrester, Ross Martin, Tyrone Power, David Jansen, and Telly Savalas.
Robert F. Hoy was equally at home as a stuntman and as an actor. He appeared as Joe Butler on the acclaimed TV Western, The High Chaparral. He stunt-doubled for such actors as Charles Bronson, Tony Curtis, Robert Forrester, Ross Martin, Tyrone Power, David Jansen, and Telly Savalas.
The man who played Col. Burleson in the movie is Robert Hoy, a movie actor and stuntman since 1949. Hoy was in town for the weekend to support the Dean Smith Celebrity Rodeo at the Taylor County Fairgrounds.
The thick, black moustache and dark, wavy hair made Robert Hoy one of the most distinctive faces in television Westerns when he played the ranch hand Joe Butler in The High Chapparal.
Robert Hoy was born in New York and raised in the Adirondacks. He attended New York Military Academy, a prep school for West Point, the life for which he was being groomed. Life, however, took a sharp turn when, instead, he chose to enlist in the Marine Corps in ‘44.
