Herbert Heyes

In his final years he also had significant film roles in A Place in the Sun (1951), Park Row (1952) and The Seven Little Foys (1955).

Portrayed Mr. Gimbel in both the 1947 Big Screen version "Miracle on 34th Street" as well as the 1955 Television version "The Miracle on 34th Street" on the Twentieth Century Fox Hour.

Appeared in five Oscar Best Picture nominees: Wilson (1944), Miracle on 34th Street (1947), A Place in the Sun (1951), Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) and The Ten Commandments (1956).

He returned to movie making in the 1940's and character roles on television programs in the 1950's.

Following his first marriage divorce he married Helen Ward on June 15, 1934 in Clark, Washington, USA.

In March 1930 a newspaper in Medford, Oregon, USA reported that Herbert Heyes, a resident of California, had registered as a guest at a Medford hotel. He was unaccompanied.

Heyes was reported in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1928 to be associated with the Babies' Aid Society, a civic philanthropic organization. In addition to philanthropic interests he was known as an ardent rug collector.

Herbert Heyes is credited as the creator of the radio soap operas in 1924. With the advent of radio he scored two firsts. He took the lead in the first radio serial, Who Killed the Caretaker, and in Main Street, the first radio drama, with Gladys George.

He entered radio in 1923 and ventured into many business interests in the 1930's.

San Francisco drama critic George C. Warren in June 1922 reviewed Herbert's debut with the Alcazar Company in his role as Maurice Monnier in Blind Youth. He described Heyes as a big, fine looking man with a high pitched thin voice. He went on to say that he lacked personality with so little magnetism that upon entering the second act with others one was not aware of his presence until he spoke.

, CA, USA, and Douglas Howard Heyes, born on October 27, 1919 in California, died February 8, 1993 in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

In addition to acting in theater productions, he signed with Fox Films in 1916 and starred in many silent films.

, born on July 26, 1915 in Illinois, died January 5, 1999 in Laguna Hills, Orange Co.

He married Mildred Gertrude von Hollen on September 12, 1913 in Eldora, Hardin County, Iowa, USA. They had two children: Herbert Harrison Heyes, Jr.

Heyes became an actor and joined the Baker Stock Company there and made his stage debut at the Baker Theater, at Third and Yamhill Streets, in 1908.

Dignified character actor, first on stage in 1906 with the Baker Stock Company in Portland, Oregon. From 1910, in leading roles with actor-manager James K. Hackett. In films from 1915. Notable as star opposite Theda Bara in Under Two Flags (1916). Also active on Broadway and in radio.

Herbert Harrison Heyes was born on August 3, 1889 on a Cougar Flats ranch near Vader in Lewis County, Washington, USA. His ancestors crossed the plains over the Oregon Trail.

His father, James Heyes (1837-1921) was a Liverpool, England sea captain who sailed around Cape Horn. He was a pioneer in the fishing industry in Astoria, Oregon, USA. His mother was Lavena Jane Washburn. The family moved to Portland, Oregon, USA, when he was four.