American actor, the son of Dan Crimmins and Rosa Gore. Perhaps his most notable role was playing the future 16th President of the United States as a boy in "The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln" (1924).
In November 1931, Hoy was ordered by Superior Judge Thomas C. Gould to be committed to Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino, California on an affidavit of insanity signed by his father after he was asserted to be suffering from delusions of persecution. Hoy demanded a jury trial, which was to be given within two weeks. Over eight years later, in the 1940 Census (9 Apr), we find Danny as an inmate in the Norwalk State Hospital for the Insane in Downey Township, Los Angeles, California. Another decade later, and in the 1950 Census (26 Apr), Hoy is now a patient at DeWitt General Hospital in Auburn, California.
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