Career

Films

Adventure in the Hopfields – 1954
Face the Music / The Black Glove – UK/USA – 1954
The Blue Peter / Navy Heroes – UK/USA – 1955
The Man Who Loved Redheads – 1955
Fun at St. Fanny’s – 1956
Stars in Your Eyes – 1956
The Curse of Frankenstein – 1957
The Good Companions – 1957
Woman in a Dressing Gown – 1957
No Trees in the Street – 1958
Violent Playground – 1958
Bottoms Up – 1960
Operation Amsterdam – 1960
The Flesh and the Fiends/Mania – UK/USA – 1960
The Young Ones / Wonderful To Be Young – UK/USA – 1961
The Silent Invasion – 1962
Summer Holiday – 1963
Crooks in Cloisters – 1964
Wonderful Life / Swinger’s Paradise – UK/USA – 1965
The Magnificent Six and a Half – 1968
A Walk With Love and Death – 1969
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins – 1971
A Christmas Carol (animation) – 1971
Batchelor of Arts – 1971
Go For a Take – 1972
Love Thy Neighbour – 1973
Man About the House – 1974
Carry on England – 1976
What’s Up Superdoc – 1978
A Touch of the Sun – 1979
The Zany Adventures of
Robin Hood – 1984
Santa Claus: The Movie – 1985
King of the Wind – 1989
Tarzan

Television : Series

Billy Bunter – 1953-1962
Quatermass II – 1955
Whack-O! – 1956
The Silver Sword – 1957
Stryker of the Yard (Guest App.) – 1957
Dixon of Dock Green (Guest App.) – 1958/1959/1961/1965
Mr Pastry Hooks A Spook – 1961
The Seven Faces of Jim (Guest App.) – 1961
Oliver Twist – 1962
A Slight Case of (Roy Kinnear) – 1965
Father Dear Father (Guest App.) – 1968
State of the Union – 1968
Beyond Belief – 1970
The Double Deckers – 1970-1971
Cosmo and Thingy – 1972
The Adventures of Black Beauty (Guest App.) – 1972
Sir Yellow – 1973
It ‘Ain’t Half Hot Mum – 1974-1981
Carry on Laughing! (Guest App.) – 1975
Potters Picture Palace – 1976-1978
Taxi – 1978
The Thin Blue Line (Guest App.) – 1996
Drop the Dead Donkey (Guest App.) – 1998
Revolver – 2004
Doctors (Guest App.) – 2004
Eastenders (Guest App.) – 2005
The Legend of Dick and Dom (Guest App.) – 2009
The Slammer (Guest App.) – 2010 
Benidorm (Guest App.) – 2011
Not Going Out (Guest App.) – 2023
Melvyn’s Talking Pictures – 2023/24

Television : Plays

No Friendly Star
No Man’s Land
Song of the March
Spring and Port Wine
Tearaway
The Common Man
The Dark is Light Enough
The Dick Francis Special
The Lady from Maxims
The Magic Idol
The Running Tide
The Snare of the Fowler
The Telescope
The Unloved
The Wharf Road Mob

Television : Films

The Chase
The Cheaters
The Double Deckers
The Human Jungle

Television : Panel Games

It’s a Knockout – 1966
Generation Game – 1971
Celebrity Squares 1975-1979/1993
Family Fortunes – 1978-2002
On Safari – 1982
Give Us a Clue – 1982
Who’s Baby? – 1982/1983
You Bet – 1989-1999
Shooting Stars – 1997
Never Had it so Good – 2002
Countdown
Mouthtrap
Punchlines
Show Me
The Pyramid Game
The Vintage Quiz
The Zodiac Game
Childs Play
Would I Lie To You?

Television : Light Entertainment Specials

Jim Davidson – 1979-1982
Cannon and Ball – 1979-1988
The Krankies – 1982-1984/1990
Bob Monkhouse – 1983-1986
Entertainment Express – 1983-1984/1993
So You Think You’re a Good Driver
Cilla Black
Sky Star Search
The Happening
The Paul O’Grady Show – 2009
This is Your Life: Melvyn Hayes – 1980

This is Your Life (Guest Appearances):
George Layton/Peter Adamson/Michael Aspel/
Michael Bates/Catherine Cookson/David Croft/
Jim Davidson/Windsor Davies/Gretchen Franklin/
Gerald Harper/Paul Henry/Ian Lavender/Linda Lusardi/
Richard O’Sullivan/Lord Ted Willis
500th Edition
1000th Edition

Television : Cartoons

Superted – Skeleton – 1983-1986
Alfred J. Kwak – Dolf, etc. – 1989
The Dreamstone – Frizz – 1990
Little Dracula – Deadwood – 1991
Jack and the Beanstalk – 2000
Pongwiffy – Various – 2002
Budgie – Nosey, etc.
Ambrose – Full length feature

Theatre : London West End

Masklynnes Mysteries – Comedy Theatre and tour – 1950
Apples of Eve – Comedy Theatre and tour
Change for the Angel – Arts Theatre
The Desperate Hours – Hippodrome Theatre
The Fantastiks – Apollo Theatre
South – Arts Theatre
Spring and Port Wine – Mermaid, Apollo and New Theatres – 1971
The Trial of Mr Pickwick – Westminster Theatre
Toad of Toad Hall – Duke of York’s Theatre
The Witch of Edmonton – Mermaid Theatre
Why the Chicken – Wimbledon, Streatham and Golders Green Theatres
Wind in the Willows – Sadlers Wells Theatre and tour
The Bespoke Overcoat – New End Theatre, Hampstead

Theatre : UK and Overseas

Masklynnes Mysteries – Tour UK – 1950
Absurd Person Singular
Apples of Eve – Tour UK
Bedside Manners – UK
Dear Miss Pheobe – UK
Habeus Corpus – South Africa
Habeus Corpus – Far East and Middle East
In one Bed and Out the Other – UK
It ‘Ain’t Half Fun Mum – One nighters, stand up – UK
It ‘Ain’t Half Hot Mum – UK
Mt Fat Friend – UK
One For The Pot – UK
Play It Again Sam – UK
Run For Your Wife – UK and Canada
Seagulls Over Sorrento – UK
The Ballad of the Sad Café – Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead, UK – 1971
Sink or Slim – Isle of Wight, UK
Stage Struck – UK
Superted – UK
The Dresser – UK
The Long, The Short and The Tall – UK
Tomfoolery – UK
Who Goes Bare – UK
Wind in the Willows – Tour UK
Cash on Delivery – Tour UK – 2007
Run For Your Wife – Tour UK – 2008
You’re Only Young Twice – Tour UK – 2012

Theatre : Pantomime

Aladdin – Princes Hall, Aldershot
Aladdin – Civic, Aylesbury
Aladdin – Civic Hall, Bedworth
Aladdin – Forum, Billingham – 2003
Babes in the Wood – Hippodrome, Bristol
Snow White – Hippodrome, Bristol
Cinderella – Opera House, Buxton
Puss in Boots – Opera House, Buxton
Dick Whittington – Lyceum, Crewe
The Pied Piper -Theatre Royal, Cork
Aladdin – Congress, Eastbourne
Cinderella – Arts, Horsham
Snow White – The Beck, Hayes
Babes in the Wood – Opera House, Leicester
Robin Hood – Concert Hall, Lewisham
Cinderella – Empire, Liverpool
Dick Whittington – Palladium, London
Cinderella – The Theatre on the Green, Richmond
Mother Goose – Gatehouse, Stafford
Babes in the Wood – Empire, Sunderland
Babes in the Wood – Grand, Swansea
The Pied Piper – Assembly, Tunbridge Wells
Jack and the Beanstalk – Pavillion, Westcliffe
Jack and the Beanstalk – Connaught, Worthing – 2002

Theatre : Repertory Seasons

Amersham
Canterbury
Chesterfield
Coventry
Guildford
Hornchurch
Leatherhead
Morecombe
Preston
Richmond
Salisbury
Worthing