Melvyn Hayes

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86.157.245.166: An additional pub that he was landlord of.

{{Short description|English actor (b.1935)}}
{{for|the American footballer|Melvin Hayes}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Melvyn Hayes
| birth_name = Melvyn Hyams
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1935|1|11}}
| birth_place = [[Wandsworth]], [[London]], England
| death_date =
| death_place =
| nationality = English
| occupation = Actor, voice artist
| spouse = {{ubl
| {{marriage|Rosalind Allen|1962||end=divorced}}
| {{marriage|[[Wendy Padbury]]|1974|1987|end=divorced}}
| {{marriage|Jayne Male|2010}}
}}
| children = 6, including [[Charlie Hayes (actress)|Charlie]]
| website = http://melvynhayes.com/
| television = ''[[Quatermass II]]'' (1955) ''[[It Ain't Half Hot Mum]]'' (1974–1981) ''[[The Curse of Frankenstein]]'' (1957) ''[[EastEnders]]'' (2005) ''[[Drop the Dead Donkey]]'' (1998) ''[[Benidorm (British TV series)|Benidorm]]'' (2011)
}}
'''Melvyn Hayes''' (''[[né]]'' '''Hyams'''; 11 January 1935) is an English actor and voice over performer. He is best known for playing the effeminate [[Gunner (rank)|Gunner]] (later [[Bombardier (rank)|Bombardier]]) "Gloria" Beaumont in the 1970s [[BBC]] sitcom ''[[It Ain't Half Hot Mum]]'', for appearing in the [[Cliff Richard]] musical films ''[[The Young Ones (1961 film)|The Young Ones]]'', ''[[Summer Holiday (1963 film)|Summer Holiday]]'' and ''[[Wonderful Life (1964 film)|Wonderful Life]]'' as well as ''[[Here Come the Double Deckers]]'' (1970–1971).

==Professional career==
===Early life and stage roles===
Born in [[Wandsworth]], South London,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-births-1837-2006?firstname=melvyn%20&lastname=hyams&eventyear=1935&eventyear_offset=0|title=Search Results for England & Wales Births 1837-2006}}</ref> Hayes attended [[Sir Walter St John's Grammar School For Boys]], [[Battersea]]. As a youth he worked in Fleet Street, carrying advertising print blocks between newspapers. In 1950 he saw an advertisement seeking an assistant for the conjurer The Great Massoni.<ref>{{cite news| url= https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/aint-half-hot-mums-melvyn-14033499| title= It Ain't Half Hot Mum's Melvyn Hayes calls on BBC to do a Windsor Davies tribute|access-date=28 August 2021 | work=The Mirror | first=Rachael | last=Bletchly | date=21 February 2021}}</ref> He got the job and was soon "disappearing twice daily for £4 per week" performing the [[Indian rope trick]] in Maskelyne's Mysteries at [[The Comedy Theatre]] in London. He was also in a theatrical troupe called [[Terry's Juveniles]], and later appeared in repertory theatres in [[Surrey]], Derbyshire and [[the Midlands]].

He has appeared in pantomimes as dames in Christmas productions of ''[[Sleeping Beauty]]'' as Nanny Nellie and ''[[Aladdin]]'' as ''[[Widow Twankey]]''

===Film===
His film roles include the young [[Victor Frankenstein]] in ''[[The Curse of Frankenstein]]'' (1957), Willem in ''[[Operation Amsterdam]]'' (1959), Cecil Biggs in ''[[Bottoms Up (1960 film)|Bottoms Up]]'' (1960), Jimmy in ''[[The Young Ones (1961 film)|The Young Ones]]'' (1961) with [[Cliff Richard]], Cyril in ''[[Summer Holiday (1963 film)|Summer Holiday]]'' (1963), again with Cliff Richard and 'Brother' Willy in ''[[Crooks in Cloisters]]'' (1964).

===Voice roles===
Hayes has performed voices on children's cartoons such as ''[[SuperTed]]'', ''[[The Dreamstone]]'', ''[[Little Dracula]]'', ''[[Alfred J. Kwak]]'', ''[[Pongwiffy]]'' and ''[[Budgie the Little Helicopter]]''.

===Television===
One of his earliest roles was in the BBC ''[[Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School (TV series)|Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School]]''. He played Edek in ''[[The Silver Sword]]'' (by [[Ian Serraillier]]) in 1957, a children's television production about Polish refugees trying to find their parent after [[World War II]]. Hayes featured in ''[[It Ain't Half Hot Mum]]'' (1974–1981), as Gunner "Gloria" Beaumont for the first two series, then, after [[It Ain't Half Hot Mum#Concert party|Bombardier Solomon]] left, he was promoted to bombardier.

Other roles include parts in ''[[EastEnders]]'' as Michael Rawlins. ''[[Carry On England]]'', ''[[Love Thy Neighbour (1972 TV series)|Love Thy Neighbour]]'', [[The Thin Blue Line (British TV series)|''The Thin Blue Line'']], ''[[Here Come the Double Deckers]]'', ''Potter's Picture Palace'' (1976 & 1978)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490744/|title = Potter's Picture Palace (TV Series 1976–1978) - IMDb| website=[[IMDb]] }}</ref> and the final series of ''[[Drop the Dead Donkey]]''. He also provided the voice to characters in the English translation of the cartoon ''[[Alfred J. Kwak]]''. In March 2011, Hayes appeared as Mr Pink in the ''[[ITV1]]'' comedy TV series ''[[Benidorm (British TV series)|Benidorm]]''. He was also in the ''[[Doctor Who - The Companion Chronicles]]'' audio ''The Scorchies'' (2013).

==Personal life==
Hayes first married actress Rosalind Allan, with whom he has two daughters and one son. He has two daughters with his second wife, former actress and theatrical agent [[Wendy Padbury]]; their daughter, [[Charlie Hayes (actress)|Charlie Hayes]], also became an actress. He is now married to Jayne Male and lives in [[Ryde]] on the [[Isle of Wight]]. Hayes has one child with Male.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gazillionmovies.com/Actor/M/Me/MelvynHayes.htm |title=Melvyn Hayes |author=The Gazillion Movies Team |publisher=gazillionmovies.com |accessdate=15 February 2015}}</ref>

He was at one time the [[Pub#Licensing_laws|pub landlord]] of the Stag Inn in the village of [[Offchurch]] in Warwickshire<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-132290037.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105184212/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-132290037.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 November 2012 |title=Melvyn's Dotty about Soap Role |first=Marion |last=McMullen |newspaper=[[Coventry Evening Telegraph]] |date=7 May 2005 |via=HighBeam Research |accessdate=15 February 2015}}</ref> the ''White Hart Tap'' in [[St Albans]], Hertfordshire, and The Brantham Bull, Brantham, Suffolk.

Hayes is a member of the [[Grand Order of Water Rats]] and in 2004, was made King Rat.{{cn|date=February 2021}}

==Filmography==
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* ''[[Adventure in the Hopfields]]'' (1953)
* ''[[The Man Who Loved Redheads]]'' (1955)
* ''[[Fun at St. Fanny's]]'' (1956)
* ''[[The Curse of Frankenstein]]'' (1957)
* ''[[Violent Playground]]'' (1958)
* ''[[Operation Amsterdam]]'' (1959)
* ''[[No Trees in the Street]]'' (1959)
* ''[[The Flesh and the Fiends]]'' (1960)
* ''[[Bottoms Up (1960 film)|Bottoms Up]]'' (1960)
* ''[[The Young Ones (1961 film)|The Young Ones]]'' (1961)
* ''[[The Silent Invasion]]'' (1962)
* ''[[Summer Holiday (1963 film)|Summer Holiday]]'' (1963)
* ''[[Crooks in Cloisters]]'' (1964)
* ''[[Wonderful Life (1964 film)|Wonderful Life]] '' (1964)
* ''[[A Walk with Love and Death]]'' (1969)
* ''[[Go for a Take]]'' (1972)
* ''[[Love Thy Neighbour (1973 film)|Love Thy Neighbour]]'' (1973)
* ''[[Man About the House (film)|Man About the House]]'' (1974)
* ''[[Carry On England]]'' (1976)
* ''[[What's Up Superdoc!]]'' (1978)
* ''[[A Touch of the Sun (1979 film)|A Touch of the Sun]]'' (1979)
* ''[[The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood]]'' (1984)
* ''[[Santa Claus: The Movie]]'' (1985)
* ''[[King of the Wind (film)|King of the Wind]]'' (1990)
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