Invoice Hayes, who performed Doug Williams on Days of our Lives, has died. The actor was 98 years previous, and appeared on the cleaning soap for 53 years.
Hayes’ dying was introduced by Days representatives in an emailed assertion. A reason for dying was not shared.
“It’s with a heavy coronary heart that we share the passing of our beloved Invoice Hayes,” the assertion reads. “One of many longest working characters on Days of our Lives, Invoice originated the function of ‘Doug Williams’ in 1970 and portrayed him repeatedly all through his life. He and his spouse, Susan Seaforth-Hayes, remained the muse of the Williams-Horton household spanning greater than 50 years.”
“I’ve recognized Invoice for many of my life and he embodied the guts and soul of Days of our Lives,” says government producer Ken Corday. “Though we’re grieving and can miss him, Invoice’s indelible legacy will stay on in our hearts and the tales we inform, each on and off the display.”
The Hayes are each legends of daytime tv. Seaforth-Hayes made her Days of Our Lives debut as Julie Olson in 1968, with Hayes becoming a member of in 1970. As their characters fell in love on-screen, so did they in actual life. The pair bought married in 1974 and stayed collectively from that time on. Doug and Julie cut up twice on the cleaning soap opera, however bought again collectively for good in 1994.
Doug and Julie had been the “it” TV couple of the Seventies. The on and off-screen reputation of the couple led to them changing into the primary cleaning soap opera actors to look on the quilt of Time Journal. In 2018, Hayes and Seaforth-Hayes had been honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Daytime Emmys.
Susan Seaforth-Hayes and Invoice Hayes for Days of Our Lives (© NBC / Courtesy: Everett Assortment)
Hayes was born William Foster Hayes III in Harvey, Illinois, on June 5, 1925 and was raised within the Midwest. He was a freshman at DePauw College when he enlisted within the Navy Air Corps. On his 18th birthday, he acquired his orders to report for energetic obligation. He educated to be a fighter pilot and was two weeks away from receiving his fee within the Marine Air Corps when World Warfare II ended. He opted for civilian life when given the selection to reenlist.
Hayes was married to his first spouse, Mary Hobbs, from 1947 to 1969. They met at DePauw College and went on to have 5 youngsters. A proficient singer, Hayes was within the burlesque revue Funzapoppin in 1949 and joined the short-lived TV present, Your Present of Exhibits, starring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca in 1950.
His first movie function was in Cease, You’re Killing Me (1952) and he appeared in his first Broadway present, Me and Juliet, in 1953. He toured with the present after it was on Broadway for greater than a yr. Hayes recorded a efficiency of “The Ballad of Davey Crockett,” which turned a Billboard No. 1 hit and offered over three million copies. He was within the tour of Bye Bye Birdie and likewise was in exhibits similar to Brigadoon, The Pajama Recreation, and George M!.
Hayes was forged in Days (then on NBC, now streaming on Peacock) in 1970 simply after his divorce from Hobbs. In 1984, after taking part in Doug for 14 consecutive years (throughout which the heyday of the Doug and Julie craze occurred), Hayes and Seaforth-Hayes left the sequence as a consequence of a lower of their characters’ reputation. They returned intermittently till coming again as regulars in 1999. Hayes earned two Daytime Emmy nominations for his efficiency throughout these first 14 years.
Over the course of his 53 years on the cleaning soap opera, Hayes appeared in 2,141 episodes.
