Barry also appeared as Charles "Hoot" Russell, Greg Russell's father in the Hey Dad..! episode "Hoot's Boots".
Hiaasen's first venture into writing children's novels was Hoot (2002), which received the Newbery Honor Award and was made into a 2006 film of the same name (starring Logan Lerman).
Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1921, Evers gained the nickname "Hoot" as a child when he was a devoted fan of the films of Richard “Hoot” Gibson, a popular cowboy who released nearly 75 short films during the first 10 years of Evers’ life.
Hoot Kloot was a series of 17 theatrical cartoon shorts produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises from 1973 to 1974.
The Brandeis Hoot is the community newspaper on the Brandeis campus.
Weldon Bailey "Hoot" Gibson (April 23, 1917 - May 6, 2001) was an economist and a longtime executive at SRI International (previously the Stanford Research Institute), where he worked full-time from 1947 until 1988, and part-time as Senior Director Emeritus until his death.