00:00In this video, I'll take a look at actor Robert Hayes.
00:03He played pilot in 1980 comedy Airplane,
00:08directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker.
00:13The cast included Julie Haggerty, Leslie Nielsen,
00:17Robert Stack Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves,
00:19and pro basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
00:22This is my second look at Robert Hayes.
00:25I recently saw some video of him and noticed a resemblance to actor Liam Neeson.
00:32Some interesting connections.
00:34Airplane was a parody of many of the airliner disaster films of the 70s.
00:41Airport 77, for example, starred Jack Lemmon, James Stewart,
00:46and Christopher Lee as Martin Wallace.
00:49Neeson and Lee were later in the Star Wars prequel movies,
00:54released between 1999 with The Phantom Menace and 2005's Revenge of the Sith.
01:01Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, and Hayden Christensen were also in these.
01:06Robert Hayes played college student Scott Rafferty in 1978 made-for-TV horror film
01:13The Initiation of Sarah.
01:15Kay Lynn, Shelley Winters, Morgan Fairchild, Tony Bill, and Morgan Britney composed this cast.
01:22Actress Kay Lynn's, I thought, may resemble Star Wars sequels actress Daisy Ridley, who played Ray.
01:32Miami Vice actor Michael Talbot plays Freddie.
01:35Liam Neeson guest-starred in Season 3, Episode 1 of Miami Vice,
01:41When Irish Eyes Were Crying, broadcast in 86.
01:45Liam Neeson played Leslie Nielsen's character, Lieutenant Frank Drebin of Police Squad,
01:51in the 2025 Naked Gun sequel, the fourth installment in the series.
01:57Pamela Anderson, Danny Houston, rapper Busta Rhymes, Dave Bautista, comedian Weird Al Yankovic,
02:05and Priscilla Presley make appearances in this.
02:08The Naked Gun series were also directed or written by Jim Abrahams and the Zuckers.
