Charles Geoffrey Hayes was an English television presenter and actor.
19 Facts About Geoffrey Hayes
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Geoffrey Hayes presented Thames Television's children's show Rainbow from 1973 to 1992.
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Geoffrey Hayes's mother was Mary and his father was Sam Hayes.
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Geoffrey Hayes joined the Oldham Repertory, working as a scene shifter, and this opened up acting opportunities.
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Geoffrey Hayes began to train as an actor at drama school in Manchester, and gained repertory theatre acting experience in Liverpool, Dundee and Manchester.
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Geoffrey Hayes appeared as a taxi driver in the soap opera Harriet's Back in Town.
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Geoffrey Hayes fronted the programme accompanied by Bungle, a costumed bear, and two hand puppets, Zippy and George.
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Geoffrey Hayes had writing credits for Rainbow and The Great Pony Raid in 1967.
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Geoffrey Hayes struggled to find work after Rainbow was cancelled by ITV when the production company, Thames Television, lost its franchise in 1991.
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Geoffrey Hayes took a job stacking shelves for his local Sainsbury's grocery for four months as he had not yet found an acting job.
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Geoffrey Hayes spent time as a taxicab driver and then retired some time later.
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Geoffrey Hayes said that he would like to have done serious acting work after the show ended, but directors could not disassociate him from his role in Rainbow.
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Geoffrey Hayes starred in a humorous television advert about investing money, making fun of his fall from the top.
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Geoffrey Hayes appeared in the video for "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" by Oasis tribute band, No Way Sis.
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Geoffrey Hayes replicated the role of a taxi driver, just as Patrick Macnee had done in the Oasis video for "Don't Look Back in Anger".
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Geoffrey Hayes was part of the Walkers Crisps campaign for Monster Munch in 2008.
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Geoffrey Hayes was a fan of the Scottish football team Dundee United, having lived in the city in the 1960s.
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Geoffrey Hayes said that he asked the producers of Rainbow to make the Zippy puppet tangerine in colour, to match Dundee United's colours rather than the blue of local rivals Dundee.
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Geoffrey Hayes died of pneumonia in hospital on 30 September 2018 aged 76.