Name
Chuck Hayward
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1920-01-20
Deathday
1998-02-23 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Alliance, Nebraska, U.S.A.
Biography
Charles Bert Hayward (January 20, 1920 – February 23, 1998) was an American motion picture stuntman and actor. He was associated particularly with the films of John Wayne. He doubled for most of the great Western and action stars of the 1950s-1980s.
His parents, Bert and Hazel Hayward, were cattle ranchers on a farm near Hyannis, Nebraska, about sixty miles east of Hayward's birthplace in Alliance. He spent his early youth working cattle, then, at 16, left home to join the rodeo circuit as a bronc rider and horse trainer. In 1947, he arrived in Los Angeles and sought work as a wrangler on motion pictures. He began doing stunts in 1949 on The Fighting Kentuckian, doubling for John Wayne. The two became pals and Hayward subsequently stunted and doubled for Wayne on nearly two dozen of the latter's films. Excelling at all sorts of horseback stunts, Hayward doubled most stars of the period who found themselves in Westerns or otherwise astride a horse, including Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, and Gregory Peck. He was prominent in The Big Country, co-produced by Peck. He was known as "Good Chuck" in contrast to "Bad Chuck", in reference to Chuck Roberson, another of Wayne's stunt doubles.
He graduated into stunt coordination, arranging the stunts in films such as The Deadly Companions and the TV series The Rat Patrol. He played small roles in numerous films and TV shows, and his appearance often served as an accurate predictor of an upcoming fight scene. He retired from stunt work in 1981, and from acting in 1989. Hayward was a member of the unofficial John Ford Stock Company, a lifetime member of the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures, and an inductee into the Stuntmen's Hall of Fame. He died from Hodgkin's Disease at his home in North Hollywood, California, in 1998. He was married three times, to Ellen Powell, by whom he had a daughter, and to Carol Lynn Shepherd. He had two children with Carol Lynn Shepherd. They were divorced in 1982. He then married Sally Pape Callaghan on October 30, 1982.
Before his Hollywood stuntman career, Hayward also worked as a medic in the United States Merchant Marine and he stated that he served on liberty ships. His two boys, along with his wife Carol's best friend who was trying to save them, perished in a forest fire in the early 1980s.
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- 1978 The Swarm as Standby Engineer
- 1958 The Big Country as Rafe Hannassey
- 1962 Merrill's Marauders as Officer
- 1972 Night of the Lepus as Jud
- 1959 The Horse Soldiers as Union Captain
- 1957 Forty Guns as Charlie Savage
- 1952 Fort Osage as Henchman (uncredited)
- 1985 Stark as Scurvy
- 1952 Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory as Henchman (uncredited)
- 1975 Hustle as Morgue Attendant
- 1960 The Alamo as Tennessean (uncredited)
- 1956 Showdown at Abilene as Roughneck (uncredited)
- 1956 Gun Brothers as Lookout (uncredited)
- 1961 Two Rode Together as Trooper (uncredited)
- 1950 Desperadoes of the West as Al (uncredited)
- 1953 The Sun Shines Bright as Deputy (uncredited)
- 1950 Wagon Master as Jackson (uncredited)
- 1954 Jubilee Trail as Velasco Rider (uncredited)
- 1962 Taras Bulba as Dolotov (uncredited)
- 1961 The Deadly Companions as Card Sharp (uncredited)
- 1953 San Antone as Willie
- 1956 Gun for a Coward as Nester (uncredited)
- 1970 Rio Lobo as (uncredited)
- 1959 Plunderers of Painted Flats as Stage Driver (uncredited)
- 1969 True Grit as Card Player / Raft Man (uncredited)
- 1979 Parts: The Clonus Horror as Walker Man
- 1953 Fair Wind to Java as Sailor
- 1965 The Great Race as Soldier (uncredited)
- 1975 Gone with the West as Mimmo's Men
- 1963 Kings of the Sun as Indian Warrior Friend to Black Eagle (uncredited)
- 1956 The Searchers as Man at Wedding (uncredited)
- 1952 The World in His Arms as Guest (uncredited)
- 1955 The Road to Denver as Randy (uncredited)
- 1964 Cheyenne Autumn as Trooper (uncredited)
- 1953 Arena as Cowboy
- 1972 Joe Kidd as Eljay
- 1974 The Longest Yard as Trooper I
- 1981 The Legend of the Lone Ranger as Wald (Cavendish gang)
- 1975 Lepke as Doorman
- 1956 Red Sundown as Cowpuncher
- 1966 Nevada Smith as Fitch Man (uncredited)
- 1968 5 Card Stud as O'Hara (uncredited)
- 1982 Crystal Gazing as Band Member (as Charles Hayward)
- 1959 Escort West as Indian
- 1960 Sergeant Rutledge as Capt. Dickinson (uncredited)
- 1957 The Unholy Wife as Hazer (uncredited)
- 1975 Rooster Cogburn as Jerry (uncredited)
- 1974 Blazing Saddles as Outlaw (uncredited)
- 1960 Spartacus as Soldier (uncredited)
- 1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as Henchman (uncredited)
- 1952 High Noon as Townsman (uncredited)
- 1950 The Fargo Phantom as Barnes
- 1967 The War Wagon as Blacksmith (uncredited)
- 1957 Run of the Arrow as Corporal
- 1980 Tom Horn as Deputy Proctor
- 1978 The Lord of the Rings as Character Actor (voice)
- 1974 Scream of the Wolf
- 1951 Slaughter Trail as Wounded Indian (uncredited)
- 1959 Pork Chop Hill as Chalmers
- 1992 John Wayne's 'The Alamo' as Self
- 1977 Airport '77 as Passenger
- 1966 The Rare Breed as Wrangler (uncredited)
- 1951 Apache Drums as Townsman (uncredited)
- 1975 Lepke
- 1958 The Western: A Lost TV Special as Self
- 1959 Dogface
- 1952 Son of Ali Baba as Villager (uncredited)
- 1977 CHiPs ( 2 episodes ) as Limousine Driver
- 1963 Burke's Law ( 1 episode ) as Deputy
- 1972 The Rookies ( 1 episode )
- 1974 Little House on the Prairie ( 1 episode ) as Cosby
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Jake
- 1957 Have Gun, Will Travel ( 1 episode )
- 1958 Yancy Derringer ( 1 episode ) as Mine Heavy (uncredited)
- 1959 Black Saddle ( 1 episode ) as Needham
- 1958 Wanted: Dead or Alive ( 1 episode ) as A Rider
- 1958 Bat Masterson ( 1 episode ) as Fugitive in Plaid Shirt
- 1959 Wichita Town ( 1 episode )
- 1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Posse Man (uncredited)
- 1959 Johnny Ringo ( 1 episode ) as Curly Ivers
- 1957 Maverick ( 1 episode )
- 1957 Wagon Train ( 1 episode ) as Quentin Cleatus
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Studer
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Kemp
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Cowhand
- 1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Deputy Sheriff
- 1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Blue
- 1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Farmer
- 1958 Wanted: Dead or Alive ( 1 episode ) as Bob Bradley
- 1958 Wanted: Dead or Alive ( 1 episode ) as Burt Taggart
- 1959 Black Saddle ( 1 episode ) as Fields
