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- Robert Francis Hoy (April 3, 1927 – February 8, 2010), was an American actor, stuntman and director.
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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.
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A Marine who served in WWII, Bob Hoy is still active as a stunt coordinator and second-unit director. He had just turned 18 when he enlisted in late 1944. He was at Camp Pendleton, Calif., awaiting assignment to a unit for the planned invasion of Japan, when the war ended.
Mini Bio. 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.
- April 3, 1927
- February 8, 2010
- In Memory of Robert F. Hoy
- Bobby Hoy, Actor, Stunt Legend and Director, Dies at 82
- The Last Golden Boot
- Interviews with Bob Hoy
- For Bobby
- Remembering Mr. Hoy
- Bob Hoy Takes Pay Cut to Get Job as Actor
- Wanted: Daring Young Stunt Men
Western movie and television legend Robert F. "Bobby" Hoy, High Chaparral's beloved Joe Butler, died Monday February 8th at Northridge Hospital after a six-month battle with cancer. He was 82.
Reprinted from the Chicago Tribune, February 11, 2010 The performer, known for his natural ability with horses, co-founded the Stuntmen's Assn. of Motion Pictures. He received the Golden Boot for his contributions to the western genre. Bobby Hoy, a renowned stuntman who also acted, most memorably as a ranch hand on the television series "The High C...
Actor Robert Fuller, a 1989 Golden Boot recipient, represented the Golden Boot committee as he presented the 2010 award to his longtime friend on Thursday, Jan. 28 in the penthouse suite at Northridge Hospital, as more than 60 friends and cohorts gave Hoy a standing ovation. It marked the first time the Golden Boot was given to an honoree in the ho...
On September 18, 2007, Bob talked with his dear friend Susan McCray onGetting to Know You. Bob Hoy and Susan McCray (click to download) Bob Hoy's Interview with Susan McCray on Getting to Know You (click to download) Don Collier talks about he and Bobby Hoy on location in Big Bear....and joke played on Kent McCray that went wrong. (click to downloa...
As you all may know, Kent and I worked with and loved our dear friend, actor/stuntman Bob Hoy for many years. Kent has known Bob Hoy for fifty years. I have known him for 43 years. Our love and admiration for Bob is hard to put into words. Monday morning, February 8th, at approximately 5:30 a.m., Bob lost his courageous battle with lung cancer. His...
by Penny McQueen A friend of mine died this week and my world lost some color. Bob Hoy filled a lot of roles in a 55 year Hollywood career - stuntman, actor, director, founder of the Stuntman’s Association – and was best known as Joe Butler, ranch hand on The High Chaparral. He was a cowboy, a horseman who didn’t need to whisper, and a straight-bac...
Wire article, 1967 Bob Hoy is a member of the regular cast of the NBC television network’s new “The High Chaparral” color series, but he had to take a pay cut to get the job. Hoy, one of the top stuntmen in Hollywood for the past 10 years, decided he wanted to take a shot at acting as a career, and producer David Dortort gave him his chance when he...
August 12, 1967, UPI Hollywood: wanted: young men in their 20s willing to fall off 30-foot cliffs, crash autos head-on, dive off horses at full speed, bare-knuckle fist fight and tip-toe through explosions. It’s all yours if you can qualify and you don’t need a college degree. In fact, you’re better off with no education at all. The pay is good, as...
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.
Feb 8, 2010 · Western movie and television legend Robert F. "Bobby" Hoy, who appeared in many productions shot on location in the Santa Clarita Valley, died Monday morning at Northridge Hospital after a six-month battle with cancer. He was 82. Kiva Hoy, his wife of 22 years, was at his bedside.
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...
