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name: "Leland Hayward"
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roles: ["Producer"]
born: "13 September 1902"
died: "18 March 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T02:54:20.450865+00:00"
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# Leland Hayward

Producer. Born 13 September 1902 in Nebraska City, Nebraska, USA. Died 18 March 1971.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 13 September 1902, Nebraska City, Nebraska, USA
- **Died:** 18 March 1971
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Hayward, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4420064, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0371770/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/69028

## Biography

Leland Hayward was an American talent agent and theatrical and film producer. Born in Nebraska City, Nebraska, he attended the Hotchkiss School and studied at Princeton University before working as a reporter and press agent. He became a prominent Hollywood agent in the 1930s and 1940s, representing clients including Fred Astaire, James Stewart, Ernest Hemingway and Katharine Hepburn.

In 1945 he sold his agency and turned to producing. He produced the original Broadway productions of *Mister Roberts* (1948), *South Pacific* (1949) and *The Sound of Music* (1959), among many other stage successes. His film credits include the 1955 adaptation of *Mister Roberts*, *The Spirit of St. Louis* (1957) and *The Old Man and the Sea* (1958). He also produced notable television specials.

Hayward received several Tony Awards for his stage productions. He died in Yorktown Heights, New York, in 1971.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, ibdb.com, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Mister Roberts* (1955), Fi1m 76, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/mister-roberts.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *A Bell for Adano* (1967), Producer
- *The Fabulous Fifties* (1960), Producer
- *The Old Man and the Sea* (1958), Producer
- *The Spirit of St. Louis* (1957), Producer
- *Mister Roberts* (1955), Producer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/mister-roberts.md)
- *Anything Goes* (1954), Executive Producer
- *The Whip Woman* (1928), Story

## Gallery

- ![Leland Hayward](https://film.one/media/person/1238343/gallery-7331c85a72f3.jpg) Leland Hayward — Photoplay Publishing Company; Hyman Fink, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Leland-Hayward-1942.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Photograph of Margaret Sullavan and Leland Hayward (1942)](https://film.one/media/person/1238343/gallery-c233d5e937f1.jpg) Photograph of Margaret Sullavan and Leland Hayward (1942) — Photoplay Publishing Company; Hyman Fink, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Sullavan-Hayward-1942.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Catalog #: 04_03408 Album: 34 Description: Producer Leland Hayward and Jimmy Stewart as Lindbergh with the Spirit replica for the movie The Spirit of St. Louis. (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/1238343/gallery-07be716ece70.jpg) Catalog #: 04_03408 Album: 34 Description: Producer Leland Hayward and Jimmy Stewart as Lindbergh with the Spirit replica for the movie The Spirit of St. Louis. (2011) — SDASM Archives, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Producer_Leland_Hayward_and_Jimmy_Stewart_as_Lindbergh_with_the_Spirit_replica_for_the_movie_The_Spirit_of_St._Louis.jpg/1280px-Producer_Leland_Hayward_and_Jimmy_Stewart_as_Lindbergh_with_the_Spirit_replica_for_the_movie_The_Spirit_of_St._Louis.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1956: Best Picture (nominated), for *Mister Roberts*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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