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Hy Pyke
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Hy Pyke
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1935-12-02,Los Angeles, California, USA
Gender
Male
Biography
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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Filmography

7.942

Blade Runner
1982-06-25

The Amorous Adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza

4.9

The Amorous Adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
1976-04-01

Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural

6.1

Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural
1973-05-01

4.9

Hack-O-Lantern
1988-03-25

Every Girl Should Have One

1

Every Girl Should Have One
1978-01-01

White House Madness

0

White House Madness
1975-01-01

Smokey and the Judge

6

Smokey and the Judge
1980-01-01

5.633

Bad Manners
1984-11-11

The First Nudie Musical

4.783

The First Nudie Musical
1976-01-01

Spawn of the Slithis

4.588

Spawn of the Slithis
1978-07-21

3.308

Hollywood High
1976-12-01

Nightmare in Blood

5.2

Nightmare in Blood
1978-07-01

5.805

Vamp
1986-07-18

2

Twisted Fate
1995-01-01

5.8

Dolemite
1975-04-26

Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women

5

Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
1978-05-21

5.5

Dealing
2012-08-15