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He and his horse “Twinkle Toes” were in hundreds of When he was just sixteen he left home and worked in films and television shows including “True Grit”, “The the hayfields and breaking horses. He attended business Searchers”, “Rooster Cogburn”, “Gunsmoke”, “Rawhide”, college in Omaha and then joined the Merchant Marines “Tom Horn” and others. during World War II on board ship. After the war, he went He was in the film, “Rio Grande”, in 1950, which was west and did some rodeo in Wyoming, South Dakota and filmed in Moab. He and “bad” Chuck Roberson did many Nebraska. horse falls and fights in this classic. In this film there was a In 1947 Chuck tried his luck in California, starting out in special horse ride called the “Roman Ride” that was actually Van Nuys. He had some lean years at first and then managed performed by Harry Carey Jr. and Claude Jarman Jr. It to do some odd jobs working in stables cleaning horse barns turned out to be one of the highlight stunts of the movie. and stacking hay. It seemed he was always around horses. Chuck Hayward is one of the honored inductees in the He finally got an opportunity to try his hand in the movies Hollywood Stuntmen’s Hall of Fame, which moved to Moab and in 1949, Chuck worked in “Fighting Kentuckian” at back in 1988 and was opened to the public for 7-1/2 years. Today, the Hall of Fame is without a home and if anyone Republic starring John Wayne. He worked in 24 of Duke’s is interested in learning more about this and other aspects movies and became a lifelong friend. of the Hall of Fame, they may contact John Hagner, its His career spanned 50 years and he became one of the Founder at www.hotmail.com. 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