About
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...
Known for
Wagon TrainSeries • 1957
Little House on the PrairieSeries • 1974
Have Gun, Will TravelSeries • 1957
MaverickSeries • 1957
Dick Powell's Zane Grey TheatreSeries • 1956
Wanted: Dead or AliveSeries • 1958
Burke's LawSeries • 1963
The RookiesSeries • 1972
GunsmokeSeries • 1955
Bat MastersonSeries • 1958
Black SaddleSeries • 1959
Airplane!Movie • 1980
CHiPsSeries • 1977
Yancy DerringerSeries • 1958
Johnny RingoSeries • 1959
The Blues BrothersMovie • 1980
SpartacusMovie • 1960
The Lord of the RingsMovie • 1978
Blazing SaddlesMovie • 1974
The SearchersMovie • 1956
How the West Was WonMovie • 1962
High Plains DrifterMovie • 1973
High NoonMovie • 1952
WestworldMovie • 1973