John Patrick Hayes

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John Patrick Hayes (born March 1, 1930 in New York , † August 21, 2000 in Burbank , California ) was an American film director , screenwriter , producer and actor. In 1959 he was nominated for an Oscar for the producer of the short film The Kiss .

Life

John Patrick Hayes began directing short films in the 1950s. In 1958 he wrote the screenplay for the short film The Kiss , who at the Academy Awards 1959 as Best Short Film was nominated. It did, however, win Grand Canyon , produced by Walt Disney .

In 1961 he made his first feature film, The Grass Eater . From then on, he mainly served the B-film audience and jumped with works such as The Farmer's Other Daughter (1965), A Body Full of Lust (1969), the Nazi propaganda film The Cut-Throats , Sweet Trash (1970) and Die Gruft des Grauens (1972) referred to the wave of exploitation films that was very widespread at the time . He also did some porn in the 1970s. Occasionally he used the pseudonyms Harold Perkins and Harold Brown .

His last two works were an episode from the television series Tales from the Shadow World (1985) and two episodes from the porn film Working Girls (1985).

John Hayes died of cancer in 2000 .

Filmography (selection)

As a director
  • 1961: The Grass Eater (also screenplay)
  • 1963: Five Minutes to Love
  • 1964: Shell Shock (also screenplay)
  • 1965: The Farmer's Other Daughter
  • 1968: Help Wanted Female
  • 1968: Walk the Angry Beach (also screenplay and production)
  • 1969: Alimony Lovers
  • 1969: A Body Full of Lust (Baby Vickie) (also screenplay)
  • 1969: The Hang Up (also screenplay and production)
  • 1969: The Cut-Throats (also screenplay and production)
  • 1970: Young Bodies - Uninhibited (All the Lovin 'Kinfolk) (also screenplay and production)
  • 1970: Fandango
  • 1970: Sweet Trash (also screenplay and production)
  • 1970: Dream No Evil (also screenplay and production)
  • 1970: Grave of the Vampire
  • 1972: Garden of the Dead
  • 1973: Up and down - I can do it again (Heterosexualis) (also screenplay and production)
  • 1973: Shirt up or I'll shoot (Bust Out)
  • 1974: Mama's Dirty Girls
  • 1976: Baby Rosemary
  • 1977: End of the World
  • 1977: Jailbait Babysitter (also screenplay)
  • 1978: Hot Lunch
  • 1979: Up Yours
  • 1983: Pleasure Zone (also screenplay)
  • 1985: Stories from the shadows (Tales from the Darkside) (TV series, one episode)
  • 1985: Working Girls (episode film, two episodes)
As a screenwriter
  • 1958: The Kiss (also production)
  • 1961: A Cold Wind in August (preliminary version)
  • 1980: Champagne for Breakfast
  • 1982: The Descent (Purely Physical)
As an actor
  • 1976: The Treasure of Matecumbe
  • 1976: Zotti, das Urviech (The Shaggy DA)
  • 1976: Dracula's death race (crash!)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Academy Awards 1959, USA. Internet Movie Database , accessed January 1, 2018 .
  2. ^ Jacob Knight: Thank You, John Hayes. Birth.Movies.Death, November 27, 2015, accessed January 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hayes, John Patrick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perkins, Harold (pseudonym); Brown, Harold (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH New York (State)
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 2000
Place of death Burbank