1920-01-20 ( 105 years old ) in Alliance, Nebraska, U.S.A.
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.
Movies
John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
1992-06-06
Stark
1985-04-10
Crystal Gazing
1982-09-15
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
1981-08-06
Tom Horn
1980-03-28
Parts: The Clonus Horror
1979-08-01
The Lord of the Rings
1978-11-15
The Swarm
1978-07-14
Airport '77
1977-03-11
Hustle
1975-12-25
Rooster Cogburn
1975-11-01
Gone with the West
1975-09-01
Lepke
1975-05-23
The Longest Yard
1974-08-21
Blazing Saddles
1974-02-07
Scream of the Wolf
1974-01-16
Night of the Lepus
1972-10-04
Joe Kidd
1972-07-19
Rio Lobo
1970-04-01
True Grit
1969-06-11
5 Card Stud
1968-07-28
The War Wagon
1967-05-26
Nevada Smith
1966-06-10
The Rare Breed
1966-02-02
The Great Race
1965-07-01
Cheyenne Autumn
1964-10-15
Kings of the Sun
1963-12-18
Taras Bulba
1962-11-21
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962-04-13
Merrill's Marauders
1962-03-16
The Deadly Companions
1961-06-06
Two Rode Together
1961-05-24
The Alamo
1960-10-23
Spartacus
1960-10-13
Sergeant Rutledge
1960-05-25
The Horse Soldiers
1959-06-11
Pork Chop Hill
1959-05-29
Plunderers of Painted Flats
1959-01-23
Escort West
1959-01-23
The Big Country
1958-09-30
Forty Guns
1957-09-10
Run of the Arrow
1957-09-05
The Unholy Wife
1957-06-24
Gun for a Coward
1956-12-30
Showdown at Abilene
1956-10-01
Gun Brothers
1956-09-15
The Searchers
1956-05-16
Red Sundown
1956-03-01
The Road to Denver
1955-06-15
Jubilee Trail
1954-05-15
Arena
1953-06-24
The Sun Shines Bright
1953-05-02
San Antone
1953-02-15
Fair Wind to Java
1953-01-28
The World in His Arms
1952-10-09
High Noon
1952-06-09
Fort Osage
1952-02-10
Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory
1952-02-08
Slaughter Trail
1951-10-15
Apache Drums
1951-04-01
Desperadoes of the West
1950-08-02
Wagon Master
1950-04-22
The Fargo Phantom
1950-02-09
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