Personal Info
William Foster Hayes III
Bill Hayes
Acting
Biography
William "Bill" Foster Hayes III (born June 5, 1925) was an American actor and a Billboard Hot 100 #1 recording artist. Following a successful career as a musician which began in the late 1940s, he began to focus on dramatic acting parts in the late 1960s, which led him to be cast in a role that gained him additional fame to a younger generation. This new chapter in his career began in 1970 when he originated the character of Doug Williams on NBC's Days of Our Lives, which he continues to play regularly to date on the serial. Hayes was a singer on the Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca variety show …
Filmography
Movies
Never Can Say Good-bye
as Daniel
Big Men
Miracle at Gate 213
as Louis Darling
Childstar
as Hockey Announcer
9 Dead Gay Guys
as Dirty Ole' Irish Tramp
China: The Panda Adventure
as Narrator
Wrestling with God
as Thomas Campbell
The Making of Rock & Rule
as Narrator (voice)
Once Upon a Mattress
as Minstrel
The Cardinal
as Frank Fermoyle
TV Shows
Frasier
as Neil 'Sully' Sullivan · 1 ep.
Hooperman
as Buddy Stern · 1 ep.
Matlock
as George Dutton · 1 ep.
Dinah!
as Self · 1 ep.
Days of Our Lives
as Doug Williams · 1 ep.
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self · 1 ep.
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self - Co-Host · 1 ep.
The Bell Telephone Hour
as Self · 1 ep.
Decoy
as Gordon Troy · 1 ep.
Caesar Presents
11 ep.