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Peter Lind Hayes
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Peter Lind Hayes (born Joseph Conrad Lind; June 25, 1915 – April 21, 1998) was an American vaudeville entertainer, songwriter, and film and television actor.
Hayes made his vaudeville debut with his mother at the age of six. In 1939, his mother sold some jewelry and borrowed $8,000 to open the Grace Hayes Lodge in Los Angeles, where he began working as a nightclub performer.
He appeared in films throughout the 1930s and 1940s, and had a significant television career in the 1950s. He often appeared with his wife Mary Healy. In 1946, Hayes opened at the Copacabana in New York. This led to an engagement with the Dinah Shore radio show. (Dinah Shore later sang the song for Chevrolet starting i…
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Peter Lind Hayes (born Joseph Conrad Lind; June 25, 1915 – April 21, 1998) was an American vaudeville entertainer, songwriter, and film and television actor. Hayes made his vaudeville debut with his mother at the age of six. In 1939, his mother sold some jewelry and borrowed $8,000 to open the Grace Hayes Lodge in Los Angeles, where he began working as a nightclub performer. He appeared in films throughout the 1930s and 1940s, and had a significant television career in the 1950s. He often appeared with his wife Mary Healy. In 1946, Hayes opened at the Copacabana in New York. This led to an engagement with the Dinah Shore radio show. (Dinah Shore later sang the song for Chevrolet starting in 1952.) The couple starred in Zis Boom Bah (1941) and had major supporting roles in the cult fantasy musical film The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953). He also had a considerable reputation as a singer of comic songs, several of which made their way onto record, including "Life Gets Tee-Jus, Don't It". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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You Ruined My Life
as Congressman Riley
Lookin' to Get Out
as Tourist at Registration Desk
The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go
as Prof. Robert Bannister
Once You Kiss a Stranger...
as Pete Delaney
Miracle On 34th Street
as Fred Gaily
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
as August Zabladowski
The Senator Was Indiscreet
as Lew Gibson
Winged Victory
as O'Brien
Seven Days' Leave
as Pvt. Pete Jackson
Zis Boom Bah
as Peter Kendricks
Dancing on a Dime
as Dandy Joslyn
All Women Have Secrets
as Slats Warwick
These Glamour Girls
as Skel (as Peter Hayes)
Million Dollar Legs
as Freddie 'Ten-Percent' Fry
Naughty but Nice
as Bandleader in Nightclub (uncredited)
Penrod's Double Trouble
as Weight Guesser (uncredited)
Danger on the Air
as Harry Lake
The Lady in the Morgue
as Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Outside of Paradise
as Lind
Sunday Night at the Trocadero
as Uniformed Messenger
Pacific Paradise
as Naval Officer Kissing Woman (uncredited)
The CooCoo Nut Grove
as Ben Birdie (voice) (uncredited)
Toy Town Hall
as Fred Allen Jack-in-the-Box (voice)
Maid for a Day
as Freddy Hayden
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
as Mr. Mike (voice)