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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