Hayes, Bill 1925-

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Hayes, Bill 1925-

PERSONAL

Full name, William Foster Hayes III; born June 5, 1925, in Harvey, IL; son of William Foster Hayes (a bookseller); married Mary Hobbs, 1947 (divorced, 1969); married Susan Seaforth (an actress), October 12, 1974; children: (first marriage) five. Education: DePauw University, B.A.; Northwestern University, M.A.

Addresses:

Agent—Gregory Mayo, Orange Grove Group, Inc., 12178 Ventura Blvd., Suite 205, Studio City, CA 91604; (commercials) Cassell-Levy, Inc., 843 North Sycamore Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038.

Career:

Actor. Performer as a nightclub singer. Military service: U.S. Naval Reserve, served as airman during World War II.

Awards, Honors:

Daytime Emmy Award nominations, outstanding actor in a daytime drama series, 1975, 1976, and Soapy Award, outstanding actor, 1977, all for Days of Our Lives.

CREDITS

Television Appearances; Series:

Fireball Fun-for-All, NBC, 1949.

Oldsmobile Music Theatre (also known as Oldsmobile Presents and Oldsmobile Theatre), NBC, 1959.

Doug Williams, Days of Our Lives (also known as Days and DOOL), NBC, 1981-84, 1999-2007.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Colonel Fairfax, "The Yeoman of the Guard," Hallmark Hall of Fame (also known as Hallmark Television Playhouse), NBC, 1957.

Bill Calhoun/Lucentio, "Kiss Me Kate," Hallmark Hall of Fame (also known as Hallmark Television Playhouse), NBC, 1958.

Minstrel, Once Upon a Mattress, CBS, 1964.

Television Appearances; Specials:

The Star-Spangled Revue, NBC, 1950.

Max Liebman Presents: Variety, NBC, 1955.

Little Women, CBS, 1958.

The Bing Crosby Show, ABC, 1959.

"America's Music—Music of the Thirties," The DuPont Show of the Week, NBC, 1961.

"A Musical Tour of Tin Pan Alley," The Bell Telephone Hour, NBC, 1965.

50 Years of Soaps: An All-Star Celebration, CBS, 1994.

Days of Our Lives' 35th Anniversary, NBC, 2000.

Intimate Portrait: Deidre Hall, Lifetime, 2001.

Days of Our Lives' Christmas, NBC, 2001.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Your Show of Shows (also known as Sid Caesar's Show of Shows), NBC, between 1950.

"The Nothing Kid," Armstrong Circle Theatre, NBC, 1952.

Toast of the Town (also known as The Ed Sullivan Show), CBS, 1953.

Spike Hunter, "A Family Alliance," The United States Steel Hour (also known as The U.S. Steel Hour), CBS, 1958.

The Big Record, CBS, 1958.

"One Nation Indivisible," The Bell Telephone Hour, NBC, 1960.

Larry Foster, "Friends before Freud," True Story, 1961.

Man in rehearsal room, "In Two Minds," The Wednesday Play, BBC, 1967.

Singer, The Andy Williams Show, NBC, 1971.

Jack Forbes, "Jessie," Cade's County, CBS, 1972.

Three for the Money, NBC, 1975.

The Hollywood Squares, NBC and syndicated, 1976, 1978.

The Mike Douglas Show, syndicated, 1977.

"The Naked and the Dead," Hooperman, ABC, 1988.

George Dutton, "The Reunion," Matlock, NBC, 1988.

Neil "Sully" Sullivan, "Frasier Has Spokane," Frasier, NBC, 2002.

SoapTalk, Soap Network, 2005.

Television Appearances; Awards Presentations:

The 19st Annual TV Week Logie Awards, Nine Network, 1977.

The 21st Annual TV Week Logie Awards, Nine Network, 1979.

Film Appearances:

Chancellor "Chance" Whitelaw, Stop, You're Killing Me, Warner Bros., 1952.

Singer, Columbia Musical Travelark: Wonders of Manhattan, Warner Bros., 1955.

Singer, Columbia Musical Travelark: Wonders of Ontario, Warner Bros., 1956.

Singer, Columbia Musical Travelark: Wonders of New Orleans, Warner Bros., 1957.

Frank Fermoyle, The Cardinal, Columbia, 1963.

Thomas Campbell, Wrestling with God, Water's Edge Communications, 1990.

Narrator, China: The Panda Adventure, IMAX, 2001.

Dirty old Irish tramp, 9 Dead Gay Guys, TLA Releasing, 2002.

Hockey announcer, Childstar, American Video Film, 2004.

Stage Appearances:

Funzapoppin' (revue), 1949.

Larry, Me and Juliet (musical), Majestic Theatre, New York City, 1953-54.

Appeared as Andrew Makepeace Ladd III in Love Letters, and as Beauregard in Mame; appeared in productions of A Christmas Carol and Same Time, Another Year; also appeared in the musicals Brigadoon, George M!, and The Pajama Game.