He also made eight guest appearances on CBS's "Perry Mason" throughout the series' nine-year run, mostly in law-enforcement roles. In 1962, he played slain police officer Otto Norden in "The Case of the Hateful Hero". The defendant was his rookie partner James Anderson played by Richard Davalos, cousin of series regular Lt. Anderson played by Wesley Lau. He also played a corporate executive, Buck Osborn, in the 1961 episode "The Case of the Renegade Refugee". In the 1961 "My Three Sons" episode "Fire Watch", he was a forest ranger. Boyett appeared in a number of television programs, such as "Official Detective", "Navy Log", "Laramie", "Tales of the Texas Rangers", "I Spy", "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." (uncredited; "The Secret Sceptre Affair" from 1965), "The Andy Griffith Show", "Family Affair", "Fantasy Island", " The Love Boat", "The Rockford Files", "The A-Team",”Archie Bunkers Place”, "Knight Rider", "Rescue 8", "Ripcord", "Murphy Brown" and "Night Court". He also appeared in numerous episodes of "Emergency!" as Chief McConnikee of Los Angeles County Fire Department's Battalion 14. Boyett also acted in several motion pictures, such as "The Hidden" (1987) and "The Rocketeer" (1991). Boyett earned much praise for "The Hidden" as a hospital patient named Jonathan P. Miller, possessed by an alien being with a taste for red Ferraris and rock and roll music. He also appeared in a short public safety film entitled "Last Clear Chance" (1959) as Patrolman Hal Jackson. Other small roles as a police officer include the crime dramas "Vice Squad" (1953) with Edward G. Robinson and "Shield For Murder" (1954) with Edmond O'Brien. Boyett died December 29, 2004, in Mission Hills, California, at age 77, of complications from pneumonia and kidney failure.