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William H. Hays
Actor
Born November 5, 1879Died March 7, 1954 (74 years)
William Harrison Hays Sr. was a United States politician, chairman of the Republican National Committee (1918–21), U.S. Postmaster General (1921–22), and, from 1922–1945, the first chairman of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA). He became the namesake of the 1930 Motion Picture Production Code, informally referred to as the Hays Code, which spelled out a set of moral guidelines for the self-censorship of content in Hollywood cinema.
Filmography
| 2024 | Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes · as Self - Head Of The Motion Picture Association |
| 2021 | Attack of the Hollywood Cliches! · as Self - Politician (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | |
| 2019 | Carl Laemmle · as Self |
| 2013 | That's Sexploitation! · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2010 | American Grindhouse · as Self - President, Mpaa |
| 2009 | Starz Inside: Sex and the Cinema · as Self |
| 2008 | Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2007 | Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2006 | This Film Is Not Yet Rated · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2005 | Bullets Over Hollywood · as Self |
| 2003 | Sex at 24 Frames Per Second · as Self |
| 2003 | Complicated Women · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2000 | In the Shadow of Hollywood · as Self (president, Mppda) |
| 2000 | Central Casting · as Self |
| 1998 | |
| 1995 | The Celluloid Closet · as Self |
| 1988 | |
| 1987 | Hollywood Uncensored · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1950 | The Golden Twenties · as Self |
| 1939 | The Movies March On · as Self |