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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1925
- Works
- 18
Top works
- Hullabaloo!
- The Challenge of Violence
- The challenge of governance
- Active citizenship today
- Two Square Miles The Heroes Of A Small Town
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Film & TV
Harvey, Illinois, USA
William "Bill" Foster Hayes III (born June 5, 1925) was an American actor and a Billboard Hot 100 #1 recording artist. Following a successful career as a musician which began in the late 1940s, he began to focus on dramatic acting parts in the late 1960s, which led him to be cast in a role that gained him additional fame to a younger generation. This new chapter in his career began in 1970 when…
Known for
- Never Can Say Good-bye — Daniel2018
- Big Men2014
- Miracle at Gate 213 — Louis Darling2013
- Childstar — Hockey Announcer2004
- 9 Dead Gay Guys — Dirty Ole' Irish Tramp2002
- China: The Panda Adventure — Narrator2001
- Frasier — Neil 'Sully' Sullivan1993
- Wrestling with God — Thomas Campbell1990
- Hooperman — Buddy Stern1987
- Matlock — George Dutton1986
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- 24,592
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Bill Hayes (born William Foster Hayes III on 5 June 1925; died 12 January 2024) was an American recording artist and later an actor. His song "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" hit the top of the US Billboard charts in the spring of 1955. Following a successful career as a musician (which began in the late 1940s), Hayes began to focus on dramatic acting parts in the late 1960s, which led him, in 1970, to be cast as the character of Doug Williams on NBC's Days of Our Lives, which he continued to pla
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Family name
- Hayes
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Harvey
- Place of death
- Studio City
- Spouse
- Susan Seaforth Hayes
- Occupation
- singer
- Educated at
- West Virginia University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Bill Hayes as Doug Williams "Days of our Lives" (1976 Columbia publicity photo).jpg
- Number of children
- 5
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- date of birth
- 1925-06-05
- Commons category
- Bill Hayes
- start of work period
- 1948-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- date of death
- 2024-01-12
- end of work period
- 2023-00-00
- name in native language
- Bill Hayes
- birth name
- William Foster Hayes III
- pseudonym
- Bill Hayes
- military unit
- United States Army Air Forces
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