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name: "Louis Jean Heydt"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/louis-jean-heydt"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "17 April 1903"
died: "29 January 1960"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T20:12:42.340127+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Louis Jean Heydt

Actor. Born 17 April 1903 in Montclair, New Jersey, USA. Died 29 January 1960.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 17 April 1903, Montclair, New Jersey, USA
- **Died:** 29 January 1960
- **Active:** 1939–1946
- **Also known as:** Louis J. Heydt, Louis Heydt, Louis Gene Heydt
- **Average Fi1m score:** 79, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 74 (1), 1940s 84 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6687485, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0382195/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13979

## Biography

Louis Jean Heydt (also credited as Louis J. Heydt) was an American character actor in film, television and theatre. Born in Montclair, New Jersey, he was educated at Worcester Academy and Dartmouth College. He initially worked as a journalist for the New York World before turning to acting, appearing on the New York stage from the late 1920s.

Heydt moved to Hollywood in the mid-1930s and appeared in more than 100 films. He is credited in *Gone with the Wind* (1939), *Make Way for Tomorrow* (1937), *They Were Expendable* (1945) and as Joe Brody in *The Big Sleep* (1946). He continued working in films, television and on stage into the 1950s.

Heydt died of a heart attack on 29 January 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts, shortly after appearing in the first scene of a pre-Broadway try-out of the play *There Was a Little Girl*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Big Sleep* (1946), Fi1m 84, as Joe Brody — [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-sleep.md)
- *Gone with the Wind* (1939), Fi1m 74, as Hungry Soldier Holding Beau Wilkes — [page](https://film.one/film/gone-with-the-wind.md)

## Also known for

- *A Star Is Born* (1954), Ocean Scene Director (uncredited)
- *Make Way for Tomorrow* (1937), Doctor
- *They Were Expendable* (1945), 'Ohio'
- *The Glass Key* (1942), Man watching dice throw (uncredited)
- *The Miracle of Morgan's Creek* (1944), Army Officer (uncredited)
- *Test Pilot* (1938), Greg Benson
- *The Furies* (1950), Bailey
- *The Great McGinty* (1940), Tommy Thompson

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