Person Details

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Aliases: Charles Bert Hayward

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Alliance, Nebraska, U.S.A.

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Movie Involvements: 97

TV Involvements: 18


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

The Alamo
Average
7

The Alamo

(1960) Tennessean (uncredited)
True Grit
Average
7

True Grit

(1969) Card Player / Raft Man (uncredited)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Average
8

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

(1962) Henchman (uncredited)
The Big Country
Average
8

The Big Country

(1958) Rafe Hannassey
The Lord of the Rings
Average
7

The Lord of the Rings

(1978) Character Actor (voice)
The Searchers
Average
8

The Searchers

(1956) Man at Wedding (uncredited)
Joe Kidd
Average
6

Joe Kidd

(1972) Eljay
The Swarm
Average
5

The Swarm

(1978) Standby Engineer

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1992 Self
1985 Scurvy
1982 Band Member (as Charles Hayward)
1981 Wald (Cavendish gang)
1980 Deputy Proctor
1979 Walker Man
1978 Character Actor (voice)
Standby Engineer
1977 N/A
Passenger
1975 Morgue Attendant
Jerry (uncredited)
Mimmo's Men
Doorman
1974 N/A
Trooper I
Outlaw (uncredited)
N/A
1972 N/A
Jud
N/A
Eljay
1970 (uncredited)
1969 Card Player / Raft Man (uncredited)
1968 O'Hara (uncredited)
1967 Blacksmith (uncredited)
1966 Fitch Man (uncredited)
Wrangler (uncredited)
1965 Soldier (uncredited)
1964 Trooper (uncredited)
1963 Indian Warrior Friend to Black Eagle (uncredited)
Deputy
1962 Dolotov (uncredited)
Henchman (uncredited)
Officer
1961 Card Sharp (uncredited)
Trooper (uncredited)
1960 Tennessean (uncredited)
Soldier (uncredited)
Capt. Dickinson (uncredited)
1959 Curly Ivers
N/A
Union Captain
Chalmers
Stage Driver (uncredited)
Indian
Needham
Fields
1958 Fugitive in Plaid Shirt
Mine Heavy (uncredited)
Rafe Hannassey
A Rider
Bob Bradley
Burt Taggart
1957 N/A
Quentin Cleatus
N/A
Charlie Savage
Corporal
Hazer (uncredited)
1956 Nester (uncredited)
Posse Man (uncredited)
Deputy Sheriff
Blue
Farmer
Roughneck (uncredited)
Lookout (uncredited)
Man at Wedding (uncredited)
Cowpuncher
1955 Jake
Studer
Kemp
Cowhand
Randy (uncredited)
1954 Velasco Rider (uncredited)
1953 Cowboy
Deputy (uncredited)
Willie
Sailor
1952 Guest (uncredited)
Townsman (uncredited)
Henchman (uncredited)
Henchman (uncredited)
1951 Wounded Indian (uncredited)
Townsman (uncredited)
1950 Al (uncredited)
Jackson (uncredited)
Barnes
Year Character Movie/Tv

Crew

Year Role Movie/Tv
1981 Stunt Driver
1980 Stunts
Stunts
1978 Stunts
1975 Stunts
1974 Stunts
1973 Stunt Double
Stunts
Stunts
1972 Stunts
1971 Stunt Coordinator
1970 Stunts
1969 Stunts
Stunts
1967 Stunts
1966 Stunts
Stunts
1965 Stunts
Stunts
1964 Stunts
1963 Stunts
Stunts
1962 Stunts
1961 Stunts
1960 Stunts
1959 Stunts
1958 Stunts
1957 Stunts
Stunts
1956 Stunts
1953 Stunts
1952 Stunts
Stunts
Stunts
1950 Stunts
Stunts
1949 Stunts
Year Role Movie/Tv

Directing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1972 Second Unit Director
1968 Second Unit Director
Year Role Movie/Tv

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