Dick Haymes
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1918-09-13 (62 years old)
Deathday
1980-03-28
Place of Birth
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Also known As
Richard Benjamin Haymes
Dick Haymes
Biography
Arguably one of the best singers of the twentieth century, Dick Haymes was born in Argentina to a Scots/Irish father and Irish mother, but brought to the U.S. as an infant. Dick inherited his vocal gift from his mother who made ends meet during the Depression as a singer and voice teacher. A music gig in 1931 caught the eye of a local band leader and soon Dick was moving up, but it was slow-going. In 1939, while Dick was trying to pitch his songwriting talents to band leader Harry James, he ended up his featured vocalist, instead. During the war years Dick hooked up with the Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey orchestras before deciding to ...
Acting
2011
as Thick-Neck
1945
as Wayne Frake
1948
as Joe Grant
1953
as Joe Carter
1946
as Jimmy Hale
1945
as Joe Davis, Jr.
1947
as John Pritchard
1944
as Ernest R. Ball
1948
as John Matthews
1947
as Jeff Stephens
1938
as Student (uncredited)
1951
as Benny
1948
as Dick Haymes
1944
as Lt. Dick Ryan
1953
as Beauregard Clemment III
1935
as Able Bodied Seaman (uncredited)
1945
as Himself - JukeBox Vocalist (voice) (uncredited)
1974
as Harold Porter
1953
as Singer, "Anyone But You" (voice) (uncredited)
1943
as Singer (uncredited)
1979
as Councilman Harris
1944
as Self (uncredited)
2003
as (archive footage)
1976
as James Crawford
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