“Easy Rider” producer, suicide
Posted: Friday, March 21st, 2008 11:33 am
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Bill Hayward, the associate producer of “Easy Rider,” has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 66.
The Los Angeles County coroner’s office said Hayward shot himself in the heart with a handgun on March 9 in Castaic. The suicide occurred in the trailer where he was living.
Hayward was the son of agent Leland Hayward and actress Margaret Sullavan, all part of a Hollywood family whose talent and beauty was often outshone by its demons.
Sullavan and her daughter Bridget Hayward both died of drug overdoses in 1960. … Read full obituary
