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person_profile-Hy Pyke

Hy Pyke Died at age: 70

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Hy Pyke

Date of Birth:

Dec 02, 1935

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Oct 16, 2006

Biography of

Hy Pyke

    Hy Pyke (December 2, 1935 – October 26, 2006) was an American character actor.

    Pyke was born Monty Pike in Los Angeles, California, the son of vaudevillian David Pike and his wife Pauline. Pyke majored in theatre at UCLA in the 1960s, appearing in numerous student films, including one for Ray Manzarek, keyboard player of The Doors, called Induction (1965), which also featured The Doors vocalist Jim Morrison in a brief role. During that time period, Pyke was also associated with Del Close.

    From UCLA, Pyke went on to have a long career playing strange, often comic characters in usually out-of-the-ordinary, low-budget, independent features, with some brief appearances in mainstream films. Some of his mainstream appearances, like a small part in the John Milius film Dillinger (1973), ended up cut out of the final film. Although many of his better known films are in the horror genre, Pyke acted in everything from blaxploitation to musical comedies. He had a uniquely manic acting style, with a penchant for physical, exaggerated comedy, marked by a distinctive, raspy voice.

    In the 1970s, Pyke's physical appearance was equally distinctive. Very short, slightly overweight, with a moustache and heavily balding head of wild black hair, he resembled the archetypal Mexican bandit of B-westerns or Sancho Panza (a role he played in The Erotic Adventures Of Don Quixote, 1976). Besides his film work, Pyke acted in theater, musical revues, etc.

    During the 1970s, Pyke delivered a number of bizarre performances in off-beat films. His most memorable role was as a creepy bus driver in the 1975 horror film Lemora: A Child's Tale Of The Supernatural. Other notable 1970s Pyke appearances were in Dolemite, (1975), The First Nudie Musical, (1976), and in Spawn Of The Slithis, (1978). Pyke played the part of Bebe Rebozo in an unreleased Richard Nixon satire called The Way He Was.

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Hy Pyke

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Filmography of

Hy Pyke

Found 17 Movies in total

Dealing

Hy ( Actor )

... 2012

Twisted Fate

Mickey ( Actor )

... 1995

Hack-O-Lantern

Grandpa Drindle ( Actor )

... 1988

Vamp

Desk Clerk ( Actor )

... 1986

Bad Manners

Mr. Slatt ( Actor )

... 1984

Blade Runner

Taffey Lewis ( Actor )

... 1982

Spawn of the Slithis

Jack Dunn ( Actor )

... 1978

Nightmare in Blood

Harris ( Actor )

... 1978

... 1978

... 1978

Hollywood High

Mr. Flowers ( Actor )

... 1976

... 1976

... 1976

Dolemite

Mayor Daley ( Actor )

... 1975

White House Madness

B.B. Reboza ( Actor )

... 1975

... 1973