Doug Williams | |||||||||||||||||
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Days of our Lives character | |||||||||||||||||
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Portrayed by | Bill Hayes | ||||||||||||||||
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First appearance | February 9, 1970 | ||||||||||||||||
Last appearance | July 11, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||
Classification | Former; recurring | ||||||||||||||||
Created by | William J. Bell | ||||||||||||||||
Introduced by | Betty Corday | ||||||||||||||||
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Doug Williams is a fictional character on the American soap opera Days of Our Lives , portrayed by Bill Hayes from 1970 until 2024. After 1999, Hayes made recurring appearances as Doug, notably airing during the holiday seasons, [1] with his final appearance on July 11, 2024, [2] [3] six months after his death on January 12, 2024. [4] [5]
For his portrayal of Doug Williams, Bill Hayes was given the Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. [6] Hayes was also nominated for Emmy Awards for Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series in 1975 and 1976. In 2020, Charlie Mason from Soaps She Knows placed Doug at #15 on a list of the 35 most memorable characters from Days of Our Lives, saying "The erstwhile Brent Douglas has come a long way from his humble beginnings. The smooth-talking con man became a good guy — so good, in fact, that viewers deemed him worthy of the heroine at No. 8 [Julie Olson]". [7]