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name: "Buford F. Hayes"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/buford-f-hayes"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "28 May 1937"
died: "3 July 2022"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T20:06:54.152250+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Buford F. Hayes

Editor. Born 28 May 1937 in Parkdale, Arkansas. Died 3 July 2022.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 28 May 1937, Parkdale, Arkansas
- **Died:** 3 July 2022

## Biography

Buford F. Hayes, also known as Bud Hayes, was an American television editor. He began his editing career in 1974 on *The Rockford Files*, after earlier work as an assistant editor on series including *Baretta* and *Quincy*.

Hayes edited episodes of *Galactica 1980* (1980), *The A-Team* (1983), *Miami Vice* (1984), *The Equalizer* (1985) and *Murder, She Wrote* (1991–1993). He had a long run as editor on *In the Heat of the Night* (1988–1992), for which he received an Eddie Award in 1989, and worked on television films such as *The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman* (1987) and *Asteroid* (1997). He retired in 1998.

Born on 28 May 1937 in Parkdale, Arkansas, Hayes died on 3 July 2022 in Florence, Oregon.

*Sources: imdb.com, americancinemaeditors.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Miami Vice* (1984), Fi1m 81, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/miami-vice.md)

## Also known for

- *The A-Team* (1983), Editor
- *Galactica 1980* (1980), Editor
- *The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman* (1987), Editor

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