Peter Lind Hayes

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Peter Lind Hayes (born Joseph Conrad Lind; 1915 – 1996) was an American vaudeville entertainer, singer, and television actor.

Early life

Hayes was born in San Francisco, the son of Joseph Conrad Lind, Sr., a railroad man and amateur entertainer, and Valiantville entertainer Grace Hayes (1895–1989). Joseph Lind, Sr., died when his son was two years old. Hayes attended parochial school in Cairo, Illinois, in his early childhood before heading to New Rochelle, New York City, where he continued his education.

Personal life

Hayes was married to Mary Healy from 1940 to his death in 1998.

Hayes and Healy co-authored their book Twenty-Five Minutes from Broadway in 1961. The name was inspired by George M. Cohan's musical Forty-five Minutes from Broadway's description of the neighborhood in New Rochelle, New York, where the two lived. They owned Columbia Island in New Rochelle along the Long Island Sound shore. On New York radio station 710 WOR, they broadcast a weekday breakfast talk show from the house.

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Career

Hayes made his vaindeville debut with his mother at the age of six. His mother sold some jewelry and borrowed $8,000 to open the Grace Hayes Lodge in Los Angeles, where he first began performing as a nightclub performer in 1939.

He appeared in films throughout the 1930s and 1940s, as well as having a long television career in the 1950s. He and his partner Mary Healy appeared together more often. Hayes enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and appeared in both the play and film of Winged Victory. Hayes began in 1946 at the Copacabana in New York. This culminated in an interview with Dinah Shore's radio show.

Hayes and Healy were the original performers of the Chevrolet jingle "See The United States." In 1950, "In Your Chevrolet" was introduced. (Dinah Shore played the song for Chevrolet for more than a decade,) In the cult fantasy musical film The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953), the couple appeared in Zis Boom Bah (1941) alongside Grace Hayes and were top-billed. He also had a following as a comedian, several of which made it to record, such as "Life Gets Tee-Jus, Don't It."

Hayes is best known for his role as Arthur Godfrey's replacement on both his CBS and radio shows, as well as several short-lived television series in which he and Healy co-hosted or co-starred, such as The Peter Lind Hayes Show (1950–52), Peter Loves Mary (1960–61). On December 5, 1962, he appeared on the pilot episode of The Match Game. On TV quiz shows To Tell the Truth, Password, and What's My Line? He appeared in an episode of The Outer Limits in 1964 titled "Behold, Eck!" "I'm in possession of Dr. Robert Stone, an absent-minded optical engineer and researcher, on display."

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