Peter Lind Hayes
Actor
Biography
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".
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Filmography
The CooCoo Nut Grove
as Ben Birdie (voice) (uncredited) 1936
Lookin' to Get Out
as Tourist at Registration Desk 1982
These Glamour Girls
as Skel (as Peter Hayes) 1939
The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go
as Prof. Robert Bannister 1970
Once You Kiss a Stranger...
as Pete Delaney 1969
Sunday Night at the Trocadero
as Uniformed Messenger 1937
Naughty But Nice
as Bandleader in Nightclub (uncredited) 1939
The Senator Was Indiscreet
as Lew Gibson 1947
Toy Town Hall
as Fred Allen Jack-in-the-Box (voice) 1936
You Ruined My Life
as Congressman Riley 1987
Zis Boom Bah
as Peter Kendricks 1941
Dancing on a Dime
as Dandy Joslyn 1940
Danger on the Air
as Harry Lake 1938
The Lady in the Morgue
as Elevator Operator (uncredited) 1938
Winged Victory
as O'Brien 1944
Seven Days' Leave
as Pvt. Pete Jackson 1942