Bill Hayes The Face of Days of Our Lives for Decades

The late actor, who portrayed Doug Williams on NBC's long-running soap opera for 53 years, shared his last scene with his on-and-off-screen ... This week on "Days of our Lives," the series celebrates the life of the late Bill Hayes and his iconic character Doug Williams. Hayes passed away on January 12, 2024, at the age of 98. His final appearance on Days of Our Lives was in July of that year. Mr. Hayes, who worked on the daytime soap opera for 53 years, appearing in more than 2,000 episodes, died Jan. 12 at his North Hollywood home ... Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes have starred on "Days of Our Lives" for five decades. And they've been married in real life nearly that ... Days of Our Lives Says Farewell to Doug as Bill Hayes' Final Episode Airs - (𝖣𝖾𝗍𝖺𝗂𝗅 𝖢𝗁𝖾𝖼𝗄 𝖡𝖾𝗅𝗈𝗐) Bill Hayes, an actor and singer whose 2,141 episodes of “Days of Our Lives” over five and a half decades constituted the daytime drama ... A college student who ... Longtime soap opera star Bill Hayes, known for his role as Doug Williams on "Days of Our Lives," died at the age of 98 years old. “The cameras were huge and immovable back then,” Hayes told Variety in 2018 when he and Susan Seaforth Hayes, his wife of 49 years and longtime ...