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Bill
Hayes
as Doug Williams
Bill Hayes has portrayed Doug Williams on NBC's Emmy-award-winning "Days of our Lives" since the 1970's for which he garnered two Emmy nominations, and several Best Actor Awards from national publications.

Hayes began his career at NBC on radio as host of NBC-Radio Monitor for a year. He was a national spokesman for Oldsmobile for four years and burst onto the early national television scene in Olsen & Johnson's madcap series "Fire-Ball Run-For-All." From there he was tapped by producer Max Liebman to be a featured singer on "Your Show of Shows" starring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. In the 90's, Hayes starred on TV's "Matlock," "Hooperman," and "Cop Rock." His major films credits include the Warner Brothers farce/musical "Stop! You're Killing Me" and Otto Preminger's "The Cardinal," and in the award-winning film "Wrestling with God." In addition to these highlights, his career was interspersed with variety performances with Kate Smith, Ed Sullivan, Perry Como, Milton Berle, Ernie Kovacs, Jo Stafford, Jack Paar, Bing Crosby, and the "Bell Telephone Hour."

Hayes made his Broadway debut in Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Me and Juliet," followed with a gold record for "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" (over 3,000,000 sold!) and he took "Bye Bye Birdie" on its one-year national tour. He also toured with "Student Prince," "Anything Goes," "Camelot," "On a Clear Day," and "Pajama Game" in addition to the New York City Center revival of "Brigadoon." Hayes' list totals over 87 musicals and 28 plays, at theaters in nearly all 50 states!

He is married to Susan-Seaforth Hayes, whom he met and fell in love with on the set of "Days of our Lives." Both were the first daytime actors to be featured on the cover of Time Magazine in January, 1976. On October 4, 2005, Hayes and his wife released their book entitled Like Sands Through the Hourglass - a real-life love story of one of daytime's most popular supercouples. Hayes' birthday is June 5.