 He obtained a follow-up film role in "The Black Knight", 1954, a variation on the King Arthur story produced by Irving Allen and Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli and starring Alan Ladd.He can be seen very briefly at the start of the film as a minstrel singing a few bars of "The Whistling Gypsy/The Gypsy Rover".Hayes was nervous before live performances and retired from show business in the 1960s.