“Easy Rider” associate producer Bill Hayward, has died of a self-inflicted gun-shot wound, authorities said Thursday. The movie, which Time Magazine hailed as “one of the ten most important pictures of the decade” featured Academy Award® winner Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper (who also directs) in this unconventional classic. Easy Rider continues to this day to touch a chord with audiences of all ages. Hayward has already been cremated and a memorial service was planned for April, said his friend Toby Rafelson. California – Hayward shot himself in the heart with a handgun in Castaic, California on March 9, county coroner’s spokesman Craig Harvey said. The suicide occurred in a trailer where Hayward was living.

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