Helen Hayward

born: 30 September 1871 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

died: 08 January 1942 Los Angeles, California, United States of America (chronic myocarditis, age 70)

American actress. She was the step-mother of Sheila Hayward. She married Sheila's widowed father Michael McCloskey (1865-1944) on 4 June 1907 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was a member of stage actor/playwright Creston Clarke's Shakespearean company for eight years. In the early 1930s, she was a teacher of screen and stage craft to younger performers. After her passing in 1942, she was cremated and interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.

Real name: Elizabeth Biays Hayward

Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography.

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1929 Cat, Dog & Co. Woman at fruit stand Acknowledgements: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP7F-KST7 (death certificate) https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/LZDF-F1X (family tree, FamilySearch.org) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8025124 (Find a Grave) https://archive.org/details/camera04unse/page/n666/mode/1up?q=%22helen+hayward%22 (Camera!, 03 Dec 1921) https://archive.org/details/camera04unse/page/n747/mode/1up?q=%22helen+hayward%22 (Camera!, 31 Dec 1921) https://archive.org/details/camera05unse/page/n78/mode/1up?q=%22helen+hayward%22 (Camera!, 06 May 1922) https://archive.org/details/standardcastingd03unse/page/n916/mode/1up?q=%22helen+hayward%22 (The Standard Casting Directory, Jun-Jul 1925) https://digitalcollections.oscars.org/digital/collection/p15759coll35/id/4820/rec/3 (The Standard Casting Directory, Aug 1925) https://digitalcollections.oscars.org/digital/collection/p15759coll35/id/4612/rec/4 (The Standard Casting Directory, Jan 1926) https://digitalcollections.oscars.org/digital/collection/p15759coll35/id/5058/rec/12 (The Standard Casting Directory, Mar 1926) https://archive.org/details/stand-cast-dir-may-1926/page/201/mode/1up?q=%22helen+hayward%22 (The Standard Casting Directory, May 1926) https://archive.org/details/stand-cast-dir-jun-1926/page/213/mode/1up?q=hayward (The Standard Casting Directory, Jun 1926) https://archive.org/details/stand-cast-dir-feb-1927/page/n118/mode/1up?q=%22helen+hayward%22 (The Standard Casting Directory, Feb-Jul 1927) https://archive.org/details/hollywoodfilmogr12holl/page/n125/mode/1up?q=%22helen+hayward%22 (Hollywood Filmograph, 09 Apr 1932) https://archive.org/details/hollywoodfilmogr12holl/page/n158/mode/1up?q=%22helen+hayward%22 (Hollywood Filmograph, 14 May 1932) Jesse Brisson (bio notes; identification in Cat Dog & Co) This page was last updated on: 27 May 2026