Chuck Hayward

Chuck Hayward

actor, stunts, second unit director or assistant director

Chuck Hayward was born on Jan 20, 1920 in USA. Chuck Hayward's big-screen debut came with North to the Klondike directed by Erle C. Kenton in 1942. Chuck Hayward is known for The Blues Brothers directed by John Landis, Tom Erhart stars as Prison Guard and Gerald Walling as Prison Guard. The most recent award Chuck Hayward achieved is Golden Boot Awards. The upcoming new tvshow Chuck Hayward plays is The Famous Teddy Z - Season 1 which will be released on Sep 18, 1989.

American stuntman, long associated with John Wayne, who 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. He began doing stunts in 1949 on Le Bagarreur du Kentucky (1949), doubling John Wayne. The two became pals and Hayward subsequently stunted and doubled 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 graduated into stunt coordination, arranging the stunts on films such as New Mexico (1961) and the TV series Commando du désert (1966). 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 stuntwork 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.

  • Birthday

    Jan 20, 1920
  • Place of Birth

    Alliance, Nebraska, USA

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Awards

1 wins & 0 nominations

Golden Boot Awards
1997
Winner - Golden Boot

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