Melvyn Hayes is an English actor and voice-over performer.
12 Facts About Melvyn Hayes
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Melvyn Hayes is best known for playing the effeminate Gunner "Gloria" Beaumont in the 1970s BBC sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum, for appearing in the Cliff Richard musical films The Young Ones, Summer Holiday and Wonderful Life as well as Here Come the Double Deckers.
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Melvyn Hayes was in a theatrical troupe called Terry's Juveniles, and later appeared in repertory theatres in Surrey, Derbyshire and the Midlands.
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Melvyn Hayes returned to the Comedy Theatre in 1952, playing Tommie, opposite Florence Desmond, Anthony Ireland and Geoffrey Kerr, in The Apples of Eve.
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Melvyn Hayes played Edek in The Silver Sword in 1957, a children's television serial about Polish refugees trying to find their father after World War II.
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Melvyn Hayes featured in It Ain't Half Hot Mum as Gunner "Gloria" Beaumont for the first two series, then, after Bombardier Solomon left, he was promoted to bombardier.
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Melvyn Hayes provided the voice to characters in the English translation of the cartoon Alfred J Kwak.
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In March 2011, Melvyn Hayes appeared as Mr Pink in the ITV1 comedy TV series Benidorm.
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Melvyn Hayes was in the Doctor Who - The Companion Chronicles audio The Scorchies.
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Melvyn Hayes was at one time the pub landlord of the Stag Inn in the village of Offchurch in Warwickshire, the White Hart Tap in St Albans, Hertfordshire, and The Brantham Bull, Brantham, Suffolk.
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Melvyn Hayes is a member of the Grand Order of Water Rats, and in 2004 was made King Rat.
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In 2025 Melvyn Hayes became a patron of The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America.