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