Hy Pyke

Hy Pyke

Born: December 2, 1935
Died: October 16, 2006
in Los Angeles, California, USA
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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Movies for Hy Pyke...

Dealing
Title: Dealing
Character: Hy
Released: August 15, 2012
Type: Movie
Kurt hates his life, so he sinks into sadness. But things begin to change when his friend Nick takes Kurt on a bizarre road trip around the country.
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Twisted Fate
Title: Twisted Fate
Character: Mickey
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A FBI agent going back to his home town. He have to decide if he should be true to his job or take care of his brother who is on the wrong side of the law.
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Hack-O-Lantern
Title: Hack-O-Lantern
Character: Grandpa Drindle
Released: March 25, 1988
Type: Movie
When Tommy was a boy, he saw his grandpa, the leader of a vicious satanic cult, murder his father in a brutal ritual on Halloween night. Now he is 18, and grandpa is ready to indoctrinate him into the ways of the black arts.
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Vamp
Title: Vamp
Character: Desk Clerk
Released: July 18, 1986
Type: Movie
Two fraternity pledges go to a sleazy bar in search of a stripper for their college friends, unaware it is occupied by vampires.
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Bad Manners
Title: Bad Manners
Character: Mr. Slatt
Released: November 11, 1984
Type: Movie
Four teens on the run from an orphanage spring a fellow orphan recently adopted by a rich family, then trash the whole house.
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Blade Runner
Title: Blade Runner
Character: Taffey Lewis
Released: June 25, 1982
Type: Movie
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
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Smokey and the Judge
Title: Smokey and the Judge
Character: Club Owner / Mr. Kuntz
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Three bad girls go good in this Southern-fried treat from 1980. When Margo (Gwen Owens), Carol (Cathy Carson) and Maria (Juanita Curiel) get released from prison, they set their sights on R&B stardom, starting with a gig at a roadhouse bar in a rough-and-tumble desert town. As long as they can stay clear of a sleazy sheriff (Gene Price), a dirty-minded judge and a troublemaking parole officer, the buxom trio may just make it after all.
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Spawn of the Slithis
Title: Spawn of the Slithis
Character: Jack Dunn
Released: July 21, 1978
Type: Movie
A nuclear leak creates a mutant Slithis sea monster, which terrorizes the variety of pets, winos, and hippies who hang around Venice, California.
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Nightmare in Blood
Title: Nightmare in Blood
Character: Harris
Released: July 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Attendees at a horror-film convention in San Francisco keep disappearing. It turns out that the guest of honor is a real vampire, and his henchmen are kidnapping the convention guests. A horror writer, a Sherlock Holmes fan and an Israeli Nazi-hunter set out to stop him.
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Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
Title: Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
Released: May 21, 1978
Type: Movie
The life and times of the flamboyant showman who built his legendary Follies around beautiful women -- as told by the women in his life.
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Every Girl Should Have One
Title: Every Girl Should Have One
Character: Willie
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A merry who-done-it diamond caper unfolds after a woman's million dollar necklace is stolen while she is having her portrait done.
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Hollywood High
Title: Hollywood High
Character: Mr. Flowers
Released: December 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Four high school girls at Hollywood High are looking for fun. Together they frolic on the beach and cavort with their guys. In their search for a little privacy they meet up with a retired movie star whose mammoth house offers 10 private bedrooms. But there's a catch...
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The Amorous Adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
Title: The Amorous Adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
Character: Sancho Panza
Released: April 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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The First Nudie Musical
Title: The First Nudie Musical
Character: Benny
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
The son of famous studio owner is forced to make porno films to keep the bankrupt studio from being made into a shopping center. In an attempt to get back on the high ground he makes a nudie musical. He makes a bet with the debtors who wish to take ownership of the studio, that if they finance the musical and he can't complete it within two weeks, they can foreclose.
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Dolemite
Title: Dolemite
Character: Mayor Daley
Released: April 26, 1975
Type: Movie
Dolemite is a pimp who was set up by Willie Greene and the cops, who have planted drugs, stolen furs, and guns in his trunk and got him sentenced to 20 years in jail. One day, Queen B and a warden planned to get him out of Jail and get Willie Green and Mitchell busted for what they did to him.
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White House Madness
Title: White House Madness
Character: B.B. Reboza
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
The Nixon Administration falls apart in a farcical manner in the time of the Watergate Scandal.
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Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural
Title: Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural
Character: The Bus Driver
Released: May 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A notorious bank robber kills his wife and flees the police, only to be captured by a mysterious group of figures in an abandoned town. His beautiful daughter, Lila Lee, receives a letter stating that her father is near death and that he needs to see her. Sneaking away at night from her minister guardian, Lila embarks on a terrifying journey...