Jeffrey Hayden, TV Director and Husband of Eva Marie Saint, Dies at 90
He was not on the list.
He helmed episodes of such series as 'The Andy Griffith
Show,' 'Peyton Place, 'The Donna Reed
Jeffrey Hayden, a director, producer and writer for
television, film and the theater and the husband of Oscar-winning actress Eva
Marie Saint, has died. He was 90.
Hayden died on Christmas Eve at his home in Los Angeles
after a year of cancer treatment, publicist Jeff Sanderson announced.
He was surrounded by his family, including Saint, his wife
of 65 years; they met on the subway in New York City and were married in
October 1951.
Hayden helmed episodes of such series as The Andy Griffith
Show, Leave It to Beaver, Lassie, Batman, Dennis the Menace, Please Don't Eat
the Daisies, The Donna Reed Show, 77 Sunset Strip, Name of the Game, Route 66,
Mannix, Peyton Place, Quincy, The Bold Ones, Ironside, Alias Smith & Jones,
Cagney & Lacey, In the Heat of the Night and Magnum, P.I.
He also was an executive producer and director on the NBC
daytime series Santa Barbara and helmed several praised "afterschool"
specials for ABC.
Hayden also directed the 1957 MGM crime drama The Vintage,
starring Michele Morgan, Pier Angeli, John Kerr and Mel Ferrer.
For the stage, Hayden directed his wife in Summer and Smoke,
Desire Under the Elms, Candida, The Fatal Weakness, Duet for One, Death of a
Salesman and The Country Girl. And they performed together in Love Letters and
in Willa Cather’s On the Divide in theaters across the country.
Born in New York on Oct. 15, 1926, Hayden began his career
at NBC after graduating from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He
joined ABC as an associate director two years later and directed the first
color specials for NBC, Lady in the Dark, starring Ann Sothern, and The
Chocolate Soldier, starring Eddie Albert and Rise Stevens.
Hayden directed his wife and Richard Kiley in the
prestigious Omnibus series on CBS and helmed the variety series The Bert Parks
Show and the quiz show The Big Payoff.
In 1954, Hayden was chosen by producer Fred Coe to join the
staff of The Philco Television Playhouse, where he directed live television
dramas with such stars as James Dean, Walter Matthau and Paul Newman. His work
attracted the attention of several Hollywood studios, and Hayden moved with his
family to Los Angeles.
He wrote, produced and directed the 1991 documentary Primary
Colors: The Story of Corita for PBS.
At the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles, Hayden directed The
Sunshine Boys, Fences, Desire Under the Elms and, most recently, Sunset Baby in
2015.
A member of the Actors Studio in New York, Hayden was
influenced by director Lee Strasberg. He became an active member of Actors
Studio West in Los Angeles and was an original member of the DGA's first
Creative Rights Committee, collaborating on the creation of the Bill of
Creative Rights.
Hayden was awarded honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees from
Bowling Green State University and the University of South Carolina. He was a
Distinguished Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of North Carolina and
a guest lecturer at the USC Film School, the UCLA Drama Department and at
Vanderbilt University.
Saint, 92, won her Oscar for best supporting actress for her
work in her debut feature, On the Waterfront (1954), dazzled audiences in North
by Northwest (1959) and starred in such other notable films as A Hatful of Rain
(1957), Raintree Country (1957) and Grand Prix (1966).
Survivors also include their children Laurette and Darrell
and grandchildren Eli, Tyler, Molly and Stella.
Hayden's family requested that donations in his name be made
to UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Attn: Melissa Brody; 8-950
Factor Building, Box 951780, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1780.
Selected filmography
In the Heat of the
Night
Misfits of Science
Knight Rider
Cover Up
Santa Barbara
(Co-executive producer)
Legmen
The Mississippi
Emerald Point
N.A.S.
The Powers of
Matthew Star
Magnum, P.I.
Mr. Merlin
Falcon Crest
Quincy M.E.
CBS Afternoon
Playhouse: "The Great Gilly Hopkins"
Palmerstown,
U.S.A.
From Here to
Eternity
The Incredible
Hulk
The Bad News Bears
The Curse of
Dracula
The Runaways
Space Academy
ABC Weekend
Special: "The Ransom of Red Chief"
Amy Prentiss
Mannix
Alias Smith and
Jones
Ironside
Longstreet
The Virginian
Matt Lincoln
The Courtship of
Eddie's Father
Love, American
Style
Dundee and the
Culhane
Batman
Shane
That Girl
Disneyland
Peyton Place
The Andy Griffith
Show
Route 66
Burke's Law
Redigo
McKeever and the
Colonel
77 Sunset Strip
Saints and Sinners
The Dick Powell
Show
The Lloyd Bridges
Show
Surfside 6
Leave It to Beaver
The Donna Reed
Show
Lassie
Johnny Staccato
The Vintage (1957)
The Chocolate
Soldier
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