Doug Williams | |||||||||||||||||||
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Days of our Lives character | |||||||||||||||||||
Portrayed by | Bill Hayes | ||||||||||||||||||
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First appearance | February 9, 1970 | ||||||||||||||||||
Classification | Present; 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. He has been portrayed by Bill Hayes since 1970. Since 1999, he continued to make recurring appearances as Doug, notably airing during the holiday seasons, [1] with his final appearance being in July 2024, [2] six months after his death on January 12, 2024. [3] [4]
For his portrayal of Doug Williams, Bill Hayes was given the Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. [5] 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]". [6]