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In 2017, World by the Tail, a documentary about Bill Hayes's life, was released online. [6] On June 27, 2017, while present in the show's audience, Hayes was featured in an impromptu interview on a web special for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ; in his heyday, he had been a guest on the Johnny Carson -hosted version of the show.
William "Billy" Hayes (born April 3, 1947) is an American writer, actor, film director and convicted drug smuggler. He is best known for his autobiographical book Midnight Express about his experiences in and escape from a Turkish prison, after being convicted of smuggling hashish. He was one of hundreds of US citizens in foreign jails serving ...
Doug Williams is a fictional character on the American soap opera Days of Our Lives, portrayed by Bill Hayes from 1970 until 2024. After 1999, Hayes made recurring appearances as Doug, notably airing during the holiday seasons, [1] with his final appearance on July 11, 2024, [2] [3] six months after his death on January 12, 2024.
Television was a nascent medium in 1949 when Bill Hayes made his debut on “Fireball Fun-For-All,” a zany comedy-variety series fronted by vaudeville comedians Ole Olsen and Chick Johnson. The ...
Jan. 16—Bill Hayes, the "Days of Our Lives " soap opera star who died last week at the age of 98, had a bit of the hills and hollows of West Virginia threading through his Hollywood-Broadway DNA.
When the original “Karate Kid” movie came out in 1984, it was pretty clear: William Zabka’s Johnny Lawrence was the bad guy, the bully who picked on Ralph Macchio’s new kid in town, Daniel ...
Midnight Express is a 1977 nonfiction book by Billy Hayes and William Hoffer about Hayes' experience as a young American who was sent to a Turkish prison. The US had declared a "War on Drugs" in the early 1970s, and Hayes was made an example of for trying to smuggle hashish out of Turkey. When his sentence was extended to 30 years, he decided ...
Actor Bill Hayes, best known for his role on the long-running soap opera Days of Our Lives, is dead at age 98. On Friday, Jan. 12, a rep for the NBC TV series confirmed the actor's (whose legal ...