
George 'Gabby' Hayes
Known for Acting · 202 credits
- Born
- 1885-05-06
- Died
- 1969-02-09
- Place of birth
- Wellsville, New York, USA
- Also known as
- George Francis Hayes · George Hayes · George Francis "Gabby" Hayes
Biography
George Hayes is an American character actor, the most famous of Western-movie sidekicks of the 1930s and 1940s. He worked in a circus and played semi-pro baseball while a teenager. In 1914, he married Olive Ireland and the pair became successful on the vaudeville circuit. Retired in his forties, he lost much of his money in the 1929 stock market crash and was forced to return to work. He played scores of roles in Westerns and non-Westerns alike, finally in the mid-1930s settling in to an almost exclusively Western career. He gained fame as Hopalong Cassidy's sidekick Windy Halliday in films between 1936 and 1939. Leaving the Cassidy films in a salary dispute, he was legally precluded from using the Windy nickname, and so took on the sobriquet Gabby, and was so billed from about 1940. In his early films, he alternated between whiskered comic-relief sidekicks and clean-shaven bad guys, but by the later 1930s, he worked almost exclusively as a Western sidekick to stars such as John Wayne, Roy Rogers, and Randolph Scott. After his last film in 1950, he starred as the host of The Gabby Hayes Show. He died on February 9, 1969.
Known For
TV Shows (5)
Movies (197)

Melody Ranch
1940
as Pop Laramie

The Plainsman
1936
as Breezy

In Old Oklahoma
1943
as Despirit Dean

Tall in the Saddle
1944
as Dave

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936
as Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)

Trail Street
1947
as Billy Jones

Heldorado
1946
as Gabby Whittaker

Borderland
1937
as Windy Halliday

Tucson Raiders
1944
as 'Gabby' Hopkins

The Lawless Nineties
1936
as Major Carter

Skyway
1933
as George Taylor

Blue Steel
1934
as Sheriff Jake Withers

Texas Trail
1937
as Windy Halliday

Top Speed
1930
as Western Union Clerk

Dirigible
1931
as Parade Official (uncredited)

Dark Command
1940
as Andrew 'Doc' Grunch

Nevada City
1941
as Gabby Chapman

Tombstone Terror
1935
as Soupy Baxter

Silverspurs
1936
as Drag Harlan

Oklahoma Jim
1931
as Crooked Gambler

The Frontiersmen
1938
as Windy Halliday

El Paso
1949
as Pesky Tees

Utah
1945
as Gabby Whittaker

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
as Self (archive footage)

The Sphinx
1933
as Detective Casey

Love Me Tonight
1932
as Grocer (uncredited)

Along the Navajo Trail
1945
as Gabby Whittaker

My Pal Trigger
1946
as Gabby Kendrick

Wall Street Cowboy
1939
as Gabby

Colorado
1940
as Gabby

Big News
1929
as Hoffman

Heart of Arizona
1938
as Windy Halliday

The Fugitive
1933
as Judge Tyler

The Gallant Fool
1933
as Dad Denton

Let Freedom Ring
1939
as Pop Wilkie

Rustlers' Valley
1937
as Windy Halliday

Badman's Territory
1946
as Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid

Southward Ho!
1939
as Gabby

Hop-a-long Cassidy
1935
as Uncle Ben

Swifty
1935
as Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes)

The Lawless Frontier
1934
as Dusty

Texas Terror
1935
as Sheriff Ed Williams

The Cariboo Trail
1950
as Grizzly

Hidden Valley
1932
as Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat

Song of Arizona
1946
as Gabby Whittaker

Riders of Destiny
1933
as Charlie Denton

Bar 20 Justice
1938
as Windy Halliday

The Star Packer
1934
as Matt Matlock

Sunset Trail
1939
as Windy Halliday
Fighting Thoroughbreds
1939
as Gramps Montrose

Return of the Bad Men
1948
as John Pettit

Monte Carlo Nights
1934
as Inspector Nick Gunby

Honeymoon Limited
1935
as Pinkham

West of the Divide
1934
as 'Dusty'

Call of the Prairie
1936
as Shanghai McHenry

Border Devils
1932
as Squint Sanders

The Carson City Kid
1940
as Gabby Whittaker

The Stolen Jools
1931
as Projectionist

The Texas Rangers
1936
as Judge Snow

Days of Jesse James
1939
as Gabby

Smiling Irish Eyes
1929
as Taxi Driver

The Brand of Hate
1934
as Bill Larkins

Pride of the West
1938
as Windy Halliday

House of Mystery
1934
as David Fells

Play Girl
1932
as Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited)

Next Of Kin
1934
as 'Dusty'

Gold Is Where You Find It
1938
as Enoch

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936
as Bearded Man

Klondike
1932
as Tom Ross

Randy Rides Alone
1934
as - Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute

Playing Around
1930
as Railroad Ticket-Seller (uncredited)

Self Defense
1932
as Jury Foreman

Trailing North
1933
as Flash Ryan

The Man from Hell
1934
as Banker Colonel Campbell

Texas Buddies
1932
as Si Haller

Young Bill Hickok
1940
as 'Gabby' Whitaker

Justice of the Range
1935
as John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson

Mystery Liner
1934
as Joe, the Watchman

Sunset in El Dorado
1945
as Gabby

The Lucky Texan
1934
as Jake 'Grandy' Benson

Cavalier of the West
1931
as Sheriff Bill Ryan

Heart of the Golden West
1942
as Gabby

South of Santa Fe
1942
as Gabby Whittaker

Sunset Serenade
1942
as Gabby

Rainbow Valley
1935
as George Hale

'Neath the Arizona Skies
1934
as Matt Downing

The Man from Thunder River
1943
as Gabby Whittaker

The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
as Lucas

Bells of Rosarita
1945
as Gabby Whittake

Red River Valley
1941
as Gabby Whittaker

Wyoming
1947
as Windy Gibson

Albuquerque
1948
as Juke

The Border Legion
1940
as Honest John Whittaker

The Devil's Mate
1933
as Collins

Sunset on the Desert
1942
as Gabby Whittaker

The Lost City
1935
as Butterfield

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976
as (archive footage)

Trail Dust
1936
as Windy Halliday

Crashing Broadway
1933
as J. Talbot Thorndyke

Bad Man of Deadwood
1941
as Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone

In Old Caliente
1939
as Gabby

Don't Fence Me In
1945
as Gabby Whittaker

The Hoosier Schoolmaster
1935
as Pearson (as George Hayes)

The Headline Woman
1935
as Duffy

The Eagle's Brood
1935
as Spike

Saga of Death Valley
1939
as Gabby

Big Business Girl
1931
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

Song of the Trail
1936
as Dan Hobson

Claim Jumpers
1934
as Jake Benson

Winner Take All
1932
as Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited)

The Boiling Point
1932
as George Duncan

Hidden Valley Outlaws
1944
as Gabby Hayes

Man of Conquest
1939
as Lannie Upchurch

Silver on the Sage
1939
as Windy Halliday

Bordertown Gun Fighters
1943
as Gabby Hayes

Smokey Smith
1935
as Blaze Bart

Overland Mail Robbery
1943
as Gabby

The Arizona Kid
1939
as Gabby Whittaker

$1,000 a Minute
1935
as New Deal Watson

Jesse James at Bay
1941
as Sheriff Gabby Whitaker
About George 'Gabby' Hayes
George Hayes is an American character actor, the most famous of Western-movie sidekicks of the 1930s and 1940s. He worked in a circus and played semi-pro baseball while a teenager. In 1914, he married Olive Ireland and the pair became successful on the vaudeville circuit. Retired in his forties, he lost much of his money in the 1929 stock market crash and was forced to return to work. He played scores of roles in Westerns and non-Westerns alike, finally in the mid-1930s settling in to an almost exclusively Western career. He gained fame as Hop… With 202 credits spanning from 1919 to 1987, George 'Gabby' Hayes has appeared in 197 films and 5 TV shows.
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- Melody Ranch (1940) — as Pop Laramie
- The Plainsman (1936) — as Breezy
- In Old Oklahoma (1943) — as Despirit Dean
- Tall in the Saddle (1944) — as Dave
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) — as Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)
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