Peter Lind Hayes

Acting

Peter Lind Hayes

Born June 25, 1915 · San Francisco, California, USA

Died April 21, 1998 · aged 82

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…

Known For

Pacific ParadisePacific Paradise · 1937
Pacific Paradise
6.51937
MovieMusic
In this MGM Miniature Musical, Harry Owens and his orchestra perform several song numbers.
Winged VictoryWinged Victory · 1944
Winged Victory
6.31944
MovieDramaWar
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the five struggle through the rigid training and grueling tests involved in becoming pilots. Not all of them succeed, and tragedy awaits for some.
These Glamour GirlsThese Glamour Girls · 1939
These Glamour Girls
5.91939
MovieComedyDrama
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead, she stays and shows up both him and his classmates' snooty dates.
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. · 1953
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
6.21953
MovieFamilyFantasy
Young Bart Collins lives with his widowed mother Heloise. The major blight on Bart's existence is the hated piano lessons he is forced to endure under the tutelage of the autocratic Dr. Terwilliker. Bart feels that his mother has fallen under Terwilliker's sinister influence, and gripes to visiting plumber August Zabladowski, without much result. While grimly hammering away at his lessons, Bart dozes off and enters a fantastical musical dream.
Naughty but NiceNaughty but Nice · 1939
Naughty but Nice
6.81939
MovieComedyMusic
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
Lookin' to Get OutLookin' to Get Out · 1982
Lookin' to Get Out
5.11982
MovieComedy
Two gamblers must leave New York City after one loses a lot of money. Doing what all gamblers in trouble would do, they hurry to the gambling capital Las Vegas to turn their luck around.
Once You Kiss a Stranger...Once You Kiss a Stranger... · 1969
Once You Kiss a Stranger...
4.61969
MovieMysteryThriller
A woman seduces a professional golfer, then offers to kill his opponent if the golfer will kill her psychiatrist, who wants her committed.
The Yin and the Yang of Mr. GoThe Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go · 1974
The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go
4.91974
MovieMysteryThriller
An American draft dodger and aspiring writer named Nero Finnigan becomes involved with the notorious Mr. Go, an organized crime mastermind. They conspire to blackmail an American weapons scientist into providing secrets to Mr. Go's organization for resale to the highest bidder. "The Dolphin" then arrives, who is an American CIA agent and James Joyce scholar, and is charged with recovering the scientist and his work by whatever means necessary.

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Dancing on a DimeDancing on a Dime · 1940
Dancing on a Dime
5.01940
MovieDramaMusic
Director Ted Brooks and comedians Jack Norcross, Dandy Joslyn and Phil Miller are part of a troupe of promising young players rehearsing for a WPA show at the Garrick Theater in New York and are stunned when the government withdraws their funding on the day of the show's dress rehearsal. Destitute, the troupe plans to return home when Mac, the stage doorman, offers to allow four of the men, Phil, Dandy, Jack and Ted, to use the theater for a boardinghouse. After accepting Mac's offer, the men improvise bedrooms out of the set pieces and meet amateur actress Lorie Fenton from Cleveland, who is eager to audition for them. When the men learn she recently received a small inheritance, they allow her to audition, hoping she will back the show.

Dandy Joslyn