Chuck Hayward
Actor/Actriz
86
Movies
15
TV Shows
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.
As Actor/Actress
La familia Ingalls
Cosby
Wagon Train
Quentin Cleatus
Maverick
Have Gun, Will Travel
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Posse Man (uncredited)
Burke's Law
Deputy
Randall, el justiciero
A Rider
Gunsmoke
Jake
The Rookies
Bat Masterson
Fugitive in Plaid Shirt
Chips
Black Saddle
Needham
Espartaco
Soldier (uncredited)
Johnny Ringo
Curly Ivers
Temple de acero
Card Player / Raft Man (uncredited)
El Señor de los Anillos
Character Actor (voice)
Yancy Derringer
Mine Heavy (uncredited)
A la Hora Señalada
Townsman (uncredited)
Más corazón que odio
Man at Wedding (uncredited)
Un tiro en la noche
Henchman (uncredited)
El Álamo
Tennessean (uncredited)
Locura en el oeste
Outlaw (uncredited)
Aeropuerto '77
Passenger
La carrera del siglo
Soldier (uncredited)
Lucha de gigantes
Blacksmith (uncredited)
The Longest Yard
Trooper I
Wichita Town
Rio Lobo
(uncredited)
Joe Kidd
Eljay
Horizontes de grandeza
Rafe Hannassey
Behind the Camera
Y, ¿dónde está el piloto?
Stunts
Los Hermanos Caradura
Stunts
Temple de acero
Stunts
A la Hora Señalada
Stunts
Oestelandia
Stunt Double
Más corazón que odio
Stunts
La venganza del muerto
Stunts
Hondo
Stunt Double
La conquista del oeste
Stunts
El Álamo
Stunts
El mundo está loco, loco, loco, loco
Stunts
Lucha de gigantes
Stunts
McLintock!
Stunts
El Dorado
Stunts
The Longest Yard
Stunts
The Sons of Katie Elder
Stunts
Rio Grande
Stunts
Rio Lobo
Stunts
Joe Kidd
Stunts
Horizontes de grandeza
Stunts
¡Viva Zapata!
Stunts
Dragones de la violencia
Stunts
Villa Rides
Second Unit Director
Marcha de valientes
Stunts
El ocaso de los Cheyennes
Stunts
Casta bravía
Stunts
Juramento de venganza
Stunts
Apache Drums
Stunts
El alguacil del diablo
Stunts
Two Rode Together
Stunts