Dr. David Hayward
Actor History
Vincent Irizarry (November 27th, 1997 to March 2nd, 1998; July 8th, 1998 to November 28th, 2006)
Occupation
Physician at PVH (blackmailed Palmer to get back on staff)
Janitor at Pine Valley Hospital
Physician specializing in cardiac medicine (Licensed revoked Feb 2005]
Former Doctor at the Front Street Clinic
Co-director of the Andrassy Foundation
Co-head of the Warnerford Chair
Former Cardiologist/Cardiac Surgeon at Pine Valley Hospital [Forced resignationed Apr 6th, 2001; Reinstated Sep 5th, 2001; Relieved of duty Feb 2002; Reinstated Jun 10th, 2004; Relieved of duty Feb 28th, 2005]
Former Associate Director of Cardiology at Stanford
Resides At
The Valley Inn
Owns a cabin in on Old Orchard Road on the outskirts of Pine Valley
Marital Status
Single/Divorced (Anna Devane)
Past Marriages
None
Relatives
Charles Hayward (father; deceased; died on December 12 when David was 13)
Vanessa Bennett (mother; deceased)
Leo du Pres (half-brother; deceased)
Ben Shepherd (half-brother)
Gwyneth Stone (aunt)
Mary Frances Stone (cousin; deceased)
Mary Margaret Stone (cousin)
Children
Babe Carey (daughter; with Krystal)
Leora Hayward (deceased; with Anna)
Adam Chandler III (grandson)
Flings & Affairs
Buffy Sinclair
Siobhan Ewing
Krystal Carey (One-night stand)
Allie Doyle
"Monica" and numerous other women while involved with Allie
Leslie Coulson
Gillian Andrassy
Erica Kane (Engaged)
Dixie Cooney
Amy Carson (One-night stand)
Anna Devane (Lovers)
Julia Santos (One-night stand)
Maladies and Hospitalizations
Right arm was sliced open after Leslie Coulson stabbed him with a letter opener. (February 2001)
Broken right hand, injured when he punched a wall in jail [Apr 13th, 2001]
Fell into a coma after Leslie Coulson injected pain medicine into his IV [Apr 16th, 2001]
Crimes Committed
Threatened to reveal that Allie faked her undergraduate transcripts if she didn't rekindle their romance.
Gave Adam an injection that nearly caused his death in an effort to frame Jake for murder.
Took Liza's amniotic fluid sample from the Pine Valley Hospital lab without permission.
Blackmailed Adam in regards to revealing Colby's true paternity.
Threatened to have Amy Carson fired from her nursing job at PVH if she revealed that they'd had a one-night stand.
Accused by Tad of sexually harassing Dixie. Dixie persuaded Tad to drop the charges.
Blackmailed Gillian into sleeping with him, offering to exchange sex for the money needed to pay Ryan's bail.
Refused to give his mother medical attention while she was suffering from a heart attack. [1999]
Spiked Tad Martin's drink with Libidozone, a powerful anti-impotence drug. (Erica ended up drinking the soda)
Accidentally dumped an entire flask of Libidozone into a punchbowl at a party; He had planned to only pour a little of the drug into the drink.
May or may not have intentionally allowed Leslie Coulson to fall from the executive balcony of the Chandler Building.
Tried to talk Pam Coulson into pulled the plug on Leslie, who was on life support.
Blackmail; Threatened Adam Chandler by saying he would turn Adam Chandler over to the police if he did not help him evade charges for his Libidozone antics.
Arrested for administering a controlled substance [Apr 6th, 2001]
Bribery (Told a judge he'd perform heart surgery on him if he helped get the charges against him thrown out) [Apr 26th, 2001]
Stole a gun from a police officer and held him a gunpoint [Apr 27th, 2001]
Receiving stolen property, a jade statue. [Revealed Oct 16th, 2001]
Assault; slugged Roger Smythe at the Crystal Ball. [Dec 2001]
Used hospital funds for unapproved research on a heart drug.
Administered an unapproved, experimental drug on Dixie Martin. [Jan 2002]
Arrested for being Proteus (Vanessa planted the files in his computer); Charges dropped. (Mar 2002)
Brought in for disorderly conduct; Stopped for speeding, ripped up his ticket and roughed up a cop. Charges were dropped. [Jun 4th, 2002]
Kept quiet about Leo violating his parole when he left town for his honeymoon with Greenlee. [Jul 25th, 2002]
Hid the truth that Maria Santos Grey was alive and led her to believe that she was someone else.
Under threat of blackmail, gave Edmund Grey an unapproved drug for memory recovery [January 2003]
Assault; Clobbered Tad over the head. [Jul 1st, 2003]
Kidnapping/False Imprisonment; Held a handcuffed Tad prison, [Jul 2nd, 2003]
Held Adam Chandler and Tad Martin at gunpoint. [Feb 6th, 2004]
Arrested for the possible murder of Michael Cambias [Feb 6th, 2004]
Blackmail; Threatened to turn in Adam Chandler for the murder of Michael Cambias unless Adam dropped trespassing charges against Maggie Stone and Jamie Martin. [Feb 9th, 2004]
Stunned Adam Chandler with a "stun gun" and locked him in a crate. [Sep 1st, 2004]
Withheld knowledge that Bess Chandler was actually Miranda Montgomery. [2004]
Arrested for failure to return a child, a felony. [Dec 30th, 2004]
Devised a plan to have Diana Cole to pretend to be Dixie Martin. [May 2005]
Miscellaneous
Earned his medical degree from Columbia University
Won the 2001 John B Thorsten Award, with Dixie Martin.
Brief Character History
Dr. David Hayward came to Pine Valley Hospital to give a lecture on cardiac care, hoping to win back his ex-lover, Allie Doyle at the same time. David had first met Allie at Stanford University where he held the position of Associate Director of Cardiology. When the position of Director of Cardiology at Pine Valley Hospital opened up, Joe Martin hired him for it. Allie was very unhappy with David's reappearance in her life. She had broken off her relationship with David after she discovered that David had been unfaithful numerous times. David swore that he had changed and asked Allie to marry him but she refused. Desperate to win Allie back, David resorted to blackmail. David knew that Allie had doctored her transcripts in order to gain admission to Stanford. In love with David, she told him her secret, believing her secret was safe. Now David threatened to reveal her secret if she didn't agree to marry him. David presented Allie with an engagement ring but she turned him down. Allie finally told Jake Martin, the man she truly loved, the truth about her college transcripts.
David told Allie that he accepted that their relationship was over and would leave her alone. Unknown to Allie, David had decided to exact his revenge on Jake Martin. When Jake was treating Adam Chandler for an impending stroke, David doctored the medication Jake was treating Adam with. As Adam's heart condition deteriorated, David stepped in and saved the day. David then presented false evidence that Jake had tried to kill Adam. Jake was suspended pending an investigation. Jake turned the tables on David, enlisting Liza and Stuart in a scheme to entrap David. Secret video caught David confessing that it was he who had switched the medication that almost killed Adam. David claimed that he had only made a medication error, and asked the hospital board to be lenient. Joe Martin wouldn't accept that, and demanded that David be fired. David left Pine Valley for a short time, but not before letting Liza know that he was attracted to her.
When David helped Dixie Martin heal from a serious heart ailment, her uncle Palmer got him reinstated at Pine Valley Hospital. David appeared on Liza's TV show and tried to start up a relationship with her. Liza, knowing trouble when she saw it, brushed him off. Still pursuing Liza, he was there to assist her when she went into premature labor giving birth to her daughter Colby. Although she was grateful, Liza could not forgive the trouble David caused.
David was troubled by the reappearance of his mother in his life in early 1999. David believed that his mother was responsible for his father's death and nearly allowed her to die when she collapsed with heart problems.
David knew that Adam, not Jake Martin, was really the father of Liza's daughter Colby. He had proof that Adam had switched his sperm sample with Jake's. As revenge for Liza spurning him David planned to break the big news at Liza and Adam's wedding. Trying to get there in time, he drove through a blizzard with Erica Kane as his passenger. An accident ensued, and although David saved Erica's life, she was left badly scarred. Unbalanced by this, Erica held David hostage in her basement with his hand in a vise, ready to be crushed at any time. David realized the consequences of his treatment of others, and he was overcome by guilt and remorse. He asked her to crush his hand, but she couldn't. After leaving her basement, he disappeared, but returned to whisk Erica to South America for reconstructive surgery. David had used and discarded women all of his life, but now he truly cared for Erica. They got engaged, but Erica could tolerate neither his flaws nor his dedication to medicine at her expense.
After their breakup David began to fall in love with his assistant, Dixie Martin, at the Andrassy Foundation. Obsessed, he attempted to create a rift in her marriage to Tad. He enlisted Leslie Coulson, a lawyer who was obsessed with Tad in his scheme. Planning to drug Tad only, David accidentally dropped the entire contents of sex drug Libidozone into the punch bowl at a party on the Fidelity Yacht. A very raucous night ensued and Tad believed he had slept with Leslie. When Dixie found out, she went to David for comfort. Although Dixie had deep feelings for David, she ended their relationship when she discovered that he had set Tad up and manipulated her.
In the Summer of 2001 David was tried in court for his misuse of the Libidozone medication, but let off with a slap on the wrist. Concurrent with the trial, he performed a heart transplant on Laura English, the wife of his half-brother Leo duPres. Shortly after, David became the prime suspect in a drug ring that was supplying the teens of Pine Valley with illegal substances. The leader of the drug ring was known as Proteus. The new Chief of Police, Anna Devane targeted David as her main suspect in the Proteus investigation. Against her better judgment, Anna was drawn to David, as he was to her. Anna's self-confidence, strength and wit captivated him. But David's lingering affection for Dixie Martin caused difficulty between he and Anna. When Dixie fell ill with a heart condition, David flew to the Caribbean and saved her life with a drug he had developed. David discovered that Dixie was pregnant. With her health problems it was unlikely she could survive a pregnancy. David helped Dixie leave Pine Valley secretly for a clinic in Switzerland where he was sure both she and the baby could survive.
Anna was furious at his continued involvement with Dixie, but she loved him anyway. When David was arrested as Proteus, he and Anna hurriedly married. Now Anna, who had full knowledge of David's illegal experiments, couldn't be forced to testify against him. Soon after, Vanessa, David's mother was unmasked as the true Proteus. Cruelly, Vanessa revealed to David that the father he so idolized had been her predecessor and had been killed as a result of his mob connections.
David grieved deeply when he learned that Dixie and her unborn child had been killed in a car crash in Switzerland. David grew close to his brother Leo and cousin Maggie Stone as they all tried to heal from pain Vanessa had caused. Anna and David's relationship was strong. They even decided to try for a baby. But David's troubled past reappeared when Maria Santos Grey, believed dead since 1997, resurfaced. It turned out that David had always known Maria had survived her accident. When David had found her 5 years earlier, he had saved her life by injecting Maria with an experimental drug he had developed. Although her life was spared, the drug had wiped her memory clean. David had sent Maria, now called Maureen Gorman, to live in New Mexico. Brooke English discovered that Maria was alive and tracked her down. Maureen panicked and called David. He helped her hide but finally Maureen went to Pine Valley to find out why so many people were interested in her. When Maureen arrived in Pine Valley she asked David who this Maria person was. Afraid of what would happen if the truth came out, David lied. He told Maureen she had killed Maria and that was why he had hidden her. Maureen/Maria attempted to fell Pine Valley but she was arrested and learned her true identity. Maria and everyone else in Pine Valley were furious at David for what he had done. Anna was crushed to learn that her husband could commit such a monstrous act. She first arrested him and then divorced him. But Anna was pregnant. When David found out, he fought to win her back and be a father to his child. In spite of everything, Anna still loved David. When his mother Vanessa and his brother Leo were killed, Anna reconciled with David.
David was sentenced to community service at the run-down Front Street Clinic. During a crisis at the clinic, Anna was held at knifepoint by a young thug. Anna and David were frightened when a checkup showed no sign of a heartbeat for the fetus. Anna flew to Switzerland for several months of treatment, while David remained behind completing his community service. When Anna returned, David had to perform critical heart surgery on his unborn child. The operation was a success and Anna gave birth to a little girl. They named her Leora, in honor of Leo. Unfortunately, Leora had heart problems and Joe Martin suggested she get a pacemaker. David wanted to wait for the surgery until Leora was stronger. David's fear for Leora grew into an obsession until finally he didn't even trust Anna to care for her properly. Finally Anna had enough and forced David to agree to the surgery. Otherwise, she would expose the illegal drug he had given Edmund Grey when she was in Switzerland. Reluctantly, David agreed to the surgery. During the surgery David thought Leora's life was in danger and demanded that he be allowed to take over. Joe Martin refused and had David ejected. While Tad prevented him going back into the surgery, Leora died on the table. Anna and David were heartbroken and blamed each other for her death. Anna left Pine Valley. Convinced that Joe and Tad had killed his daughter, David swore vengeance on the Martin family.
David was reluctantly pleased to have another chance at fatherhood when Krystal revealed that he was her daughter Babe's father. Determined to do everything that he could to make Babe's life easier, David succeeded only in driving a wedge between himself and his newfound daughter. David hated Babe's husband, JR Chandler and was convinced that he would hurt his daughter.
When he found out that the child his daughter was raising was actually Bianca Montgomery's child, David was torn. He cared deeply for Bianca, but he went along with the deception that it was Bianca's child who had died while Babe's had lived. Reluctantly, he agreed to keep that secret so his daughter could salvage her marriage. When David discovered that JR intended to divorce Babe and take the child, he felt vindicated in his hatred of JR. When Babe discovered that her child was alive, David helped Babe and Jamie Martin to escape from Pine Valley with the little boy. David reveled in the pain JR felt after Babe lied and told him that their child had died.
When Babe and Jamie were captured, David did everything he could to see that Babe didn't suffer for what she had done. Babe's mother, Krystal, went to prison for her part in the baby switch. After learning that David had known that Bianca's child was alive and kept it a secret, both Bianca and Erica cast him out of their lives. David lost his medical privileges and was forced to work at the hospital as a janitor. Blaming Jamie for not saving Babe from JR, his hatred for the Martin family grew stronger.
A woman who had been in prison with Krystal, Di Henry came to Pine Valley. When David met Di, he hatched his plan to punish both JR and the Martins. He coaxed Di with all the details of Dixie's life, and had her pretend to be Dixie returned from the dead. JR and Tad were thrilled to have their mother and wife back from the dead and only David knew the truth. David altered a DNA test to prove that Di was Dixie. David also discovered that Di was really Dixie's half-sister, and used his knowledge to manipulate her. When Di's true identity was finally exposed, JR and Tad and the rest of Pine Valley treated David as a pariah. But it turned out that the real Dixie was alive, and she returned secretly to Pine Valley.
David was the first person to discover Dixie when she came back, and he was overjoyed to have her back. David wanted Dixie back in his life, and he was willing to do anything to be with her. Dixie was searching for her daughter, who she had given up for adoption after her car crash. The doctor who had taken the child was Greg Madden, a fertility expert on staff at Pine Valley Hospital. David wanted Dixie so badly that he misled her in her search for her child, hoping to win her love. When she discovered his lies, Dixie threw him out of her life. David now had only two goals in life - protecting his daughter Babe, and exacting revenge on all the people he felt had wronged him.
David decided to leave Pine Valley, but he was determined to leave chaos in his wake. He sent Tad and Dixie on a fruitless search for their daughter by faking DNA, and told Kendall the true paternity of Annie McDermott. He also told Dixie that Adam's wife, Krystal, was pregnant with Tad's child. He mixed his lies with truth to cause the most damage he could. He told Babe goodbye, warning her that her husband was a dangerous man. Babe rejected both him and his advice, and David took off for Indonesia.
