Posted by Billie Hayes Death – Billie Hayes, the performer who portrayed Witchiepoo on NBC’s “H.R. Pufnstuf,” has kicked the can. She was 96.
Hayes’ passing was accounted for on her position site.
Hayes is generally mainstream for her portrayal of the cunning witch Witchiepoo on Sid and Marty Krofft’s show “H.R. Pufnstuf” from 1969 to 1970. Starting there, Hayes returned as Witchiepoo on “The Paul Lynde Halloween Special” and the planned finale of “The Banana Splits Adventure Hour.” Hayes in like manner appeared as a witch in a couple of various shows, including “Enchanted,” “Weenie the Genie,” “The Monkees” and “Lidsville.”
Marty Krofft regarded Hayes in a clarification to Variety: “just as being an amazingly skilled and unprecedented individual, Margret Hamilton (Wicked Witch of the West/’Wizard of Oz’) when uncovered to me that Witchiepoo was the best witch ever. Moreover, considering everything, there was no one better than Billie Hayes. She was a homer for us and ‘H.R Pufnstuf.'”
Hayes is similarly prominent for her setting work, incorporating highlighting Mammy Yokum in the initial 1956 Broadway production of “Li’l Abner,” similarly as the 1959 film change and a 1971 TV phenomenal.
Brought into the world in DuQuoin, Illinois in 1925, Hayes started in the redirection business at the energetic age of nine as a craftsman and continued continuing as a teenager in Chicago before moving to New York City. However, Hayes’ acting calling didn’t begin until she went on an outwardly disabled tryout for theatre legend J.J. Shubert.
“At a chance involvement with New York Billie was approached to go to a tryout. She went not knowing who or what she was going for,” the attestation on Hayes’ site scrutinizes. “Successfully a readied club performer she moved and sang plans she had organized. In lack of definition and any case void theatre, there a few people arranged. Billie recently heard a giggle at that point laughing. It was the astonishing J.J. Shubert.”
Starting there, Hayes began working in theatre, appearing in the revue “What’s new With Paul Lynde” and in Leonard Sillman’s “New Faces.” After moving to Los Angeles, Hayes began to look for employment in TV, inciting her work in “H.R. Pufnstuf.” In the 1980s, Hayes appeared on “General Hospital” as O’Reilly and gone more to voice work, including “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “Johnny Bravo,” “The Batman,” “Rugrats” and “Shrek Forever After.”
Farther away, Hayes in a like manner transformed into the head of Pet Hope, a non-advantage animal advancement affiliation focused on finding homes for abandoned animals. Blessings in her memory can be made here.