John hart bio

American actor

This article is about the American cinema actor. For other people with the same name, see John Hart (disambiguation).

John Lewis Hart (December 13, 1917 – September 20, 2009), also credited as John Hilton, was an American film and television actor.

John hart bio

In his early career, Hart appeared mostly in westerns. Although Hart played mostly minor roles in some fairly well known films, he was probably best known for playing the character Hawkeye in the TV series Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans and replacing Clayton Moore in the television seriesThe Lone Ranger for one season (1952–53), as well as playing Dr Stein in the 1973 cult classic Blackenstein.

Career

Hart began his screen career in 1937 with a bit part in Daughter of Shanghai. He continued in a variety of B pictures such as Prison Farm and King of Alcatraz before appearing in two of Cecil B.

DeMille's films The Buccaneer (1938) and North West Mounted Police (1940).