John Hayes was an American

United States

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 film director

Film director

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, producer

Film producer

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, screenwriter

Screenwriter

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, and actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

. Hayes is best known for directing low-budget drive-in

Drive-in

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 B-movie

B-movie

A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....

 features and later, exploitation film

Exploitation film

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Career

Hayes began his career in the 1950s producing and directing short films. In 1959, he was nominated for an Academy Award for the short film The Kiss.

In 1961, he directed his first full length film The Grass Eater. In addition to directing, Hayes also served as producer and writer on many of his films. Occasionally, Hayes appeared in bit parts in television and films, mainly his own features.

Hayes died of cancer

Cancer

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 in 2000.

Actor

• Treasure of Matecumbe (1976)
• The Shaggy D.A.
  The Shaggy D.A.
  The Shaggy D.A. is a 1976 film sequel to 1959's The Shaggy Dog by Walt Disney Productions. It was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Don Tait, based on the original film and inspired by the long out-of-print Felix Salten novel, The Hound of Florence.It starred Dean Jones as the adult...
  
  (1976)
• Crash! (1977)
• End of the World (1977)
• She Came to the Valley (1977)
• Up Yours - A Rockin' Comedy (1977)
• Little House: A New Beginning
  Little House on the Prairie (TV series)
  Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon and Melissa Gilbert, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s. The show was an adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder's best-selling series of Little House books...
  
  (1 episode, 1979)

Producer

• Walk the Angry Beach
  Walk the Angry Beach
  Walk the Angry Beach, also known as Hollywood After Dark and The Unholy Choice, is an exploitation film starring Rue McClanahan as a stripper who aspires to become a movie actress, but ends up being exploited by the industry.-DVD releases:...
  
  (1968)
• The Cut-Throats (1969)
• Dream No Evil (1970)
• All the Lovin' Kinfolk (1970)
• The Hang Ups (1970)
• The Photographer (1974)

Writer

• Sweet Trash (1970)
• Dream No Evil (1970)
• All the Lovin' Kinfolk (1970)
• All the Lovin' Kinfolk (1970)
• 'The Hang Ups (1970)
• Heterosexualis (1973)
• Grave of the Vampire (1974)
• Jailbait Babysitter (1978)

Director

• The Grass Eater (1961)
• Five Minutes to Love
  Five Minutes to Love
  Five Minutes to Love is a 1963 American drama film directed by John Hayes and starring Rue McClanahan as Poochie, a woman who lives in a junkyard...
  
  (1963)
• Shell Shock
  Shell Shock
  Shell Shock, also known as 82nd Marines Attack was a 1964 film by B-movie director John Hayes. The film takes place in Italy during World War II, and tells the story of a sergeant with his group of soldiers....
  
  (1964)
• The Farmer's Other Daughter (1965)
• Walk the Angry Beach
  Walk the Angry Beach
  Walk the Angry Beach, also known as Hollywood After Dark and The Unholy Choice, is an exploitation film starring Rue McClanahan as a stripper who aspires to become a movie actress, but ends up being exploited by the industry.-DVD releases:...
  
  (1968)
• Fandango (1969)
• The Cut-Throats (1969)
• Sweet Trash (1970)
• Dream No Evil (1970)
• Convicts' Women (1970)
• All the Lovin' Kinfolk (1970)
• 'The Hang Ups (1970)
• Heterosexualis (1973)
• Grave of the Vampire (1974)
• Garden of the Dead
  Garden of the Dead
  Garden of the Dead is a 1972 horror film directed by low-budget film director John Hayes and stars Duncan McLeod, Lee Frost and Susan Charney.-Plot:...
  
  (1974)
• Mama's Dirty Girls (1974)
• End of the World (1977)
• Jailbait Babysitter (1978)
• Up Yours - A Rockin' Comedy (1979)
• Tales from the Darkside
  Tales from the Darkside
  Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series produced by George A. Romero; it originally aired from 1983 to 1988. Similar to Amazing Stories, The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, The Outer Limits, and Tales From The Crypt, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot...
  
  (Unknown episodes)

External links

• DVD Drive In: Hollywood After Dark/The Rotten Apple