John Michael Hayes | Hitchcock screenwriter, 89

John Michael Hayes, 89, a screenwriter who was nominated for Academy Awards for the classic Alfred Hitchcock film

Rear Window

and for

Peyton Place

, died last Wednesday in Hanover, N.H.

Mr. Hayes, who was involved in Dartmouth College's film studies program, also had collaborated with Hitchcock on To Catch a Thief, The Trouble with Harry and the 1956 remake of Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much. His most recent writing credit is the 1998 film Iron Will.

Mr. Hayes got his start writing for newspapers and radio. After paying his way through school at Massachusetts State College, he moved to Hollywood. There he landed a job writing for Lucille Ball's radio program My Favorite Husband and the serial drama The Adventures of Sam Spade. His radio work caught the attentions of Universal Studios, which hired him as a screenwriter in the early 1950s.

- AP