Chuck Hayward
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.
Known for
Have Gun, Will Travel
Little House on the Prairie
Wagon Train
Quentin Cleatus
Maverick
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Posse Man (uncredited)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Deputy Sheriff
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Blue
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Farmer
Burke's Law
Deputy
The Rookies
Wanted: Dead or Alive
A Rider
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Bob Bradley
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Burt Taggart
Gunsmoke
Jake
Gunsmoke
Studer
Gunsmoke
Kemp
Gunsmoke
Cowhand
Bat Masterson
Fugitive in Plaid Shirt
Black Saddle
Needham
Black Saddle
Fields
CHiPs
Johnny Ringo
Curly Ivers
High Noon
Townsman (uncredited)
Spartacus
Soldier (uncredited)
Yancy Derringer
Mine Heavy (uncredited)
Blazing Saddles
Outlaw (uncredited)
Wichita Town
The Lord of the Rings
Character Actor (voice)
Dogface
The Longest Yard
Trooper I
The Searchers
Man at Wedding (uncredited)
True Grit
Card Player / Raft Man (uncredited)
Rio Lobo
(uncredited)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Henchman (uncredited)
Joe Kidd
Eljay
5 Card Stud
O'Hara (uncredited)
The Alamo
Tennessean (uncredited)
The Big Country
Rafe Hannassey
The War Wagon
Blacksmith (uncredited)
Airport '77
Passenger
The Great Race
Soldier (uncredited)
The Horse Soldiers
Union Captain
Night of the Lepus
Jud
The Swarm
Standby Engineer
Cheyenne Autumn
Trooper (uncredited)
Rooster Cogburn
Jerry (uncredited)
Pork Chop Hill
Chalmers
Wagon Master
Jackson (uncredited)
Escort West
Indian
Sergeant Rutledge
Capt. Dickinson (uncredited)
Nevada Smith
Fitch Man (uncredited)
The Rare Breed
Wrangler (uncredited)
Two Rode Together
Trooper (uncredited)
Taras Bulba
Dolotov (uncredited)
Tom Horn
Deputy Proctor
Son of Ali Baba
Villager (uncredited)
Forty Guns
Charlie Savage
Hustle
Morgue Attendant
The World in His Arms
Guest (uncredited)
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
Wald (Cavendish gang)
Kings of the Sun
Indian Warrior Friend to Black Eagle (uncredited)
Merrill's Marauders
Officer
The Sun Shines Bright
Deputy (uncredited)
Lepke
Doorman
Lepke
Apache Drums
Townsman (uncredited)
Gone with the West
Mimmo's Men
Showdown at Abilene
Roughneck (uncredited)
Gun for a Coward
Nester (uncredited)
Parts: The Clonus Horror
Walker Man
Run of the Arrow
Corporal
Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory
Henchman (uncredited)
San Antone
Willie
Fort Osage
Henchman (uncredited)
The Road to Denver
Randy (uncredited)
The Unholy Wife
Hazer (uncredited)
Jubilee Trail
Velasco Rider (uncredited)
The Western: A Lost TV Special
Self
The Deadly Companions
Card Sharp (uncredited)
Arena
Cowboy
Red Sundown
Cowpuncher
Scream of the Wolf
Fair Wind to Java
Sailor
Stark
Scurvy
Slaughter Trail
Wounded Indian (uncredited)
Gun Brothers
Lookout (uncredited)
John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
Self
Plunderers of Painted Flats
Stage Driver (uncredited)
Crystal Gazing
Band Member (as Charles Hayward)
Desperadoes of the West
Al (uncredited)
The Fargo Phantom
Barnes