George 'Gabby' Hayes
Acting
Born May 6, 1885 ยท Wellsville, New York, USA
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.
Films (196)
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
The Western: A Lost TV Special
1958
The Cariboo Trail
1950
El Paso
1949
The Untamed Breed
1948
Return of the Bad Men
1948
Albuquerque
1948
Wyoming
1947
Trail Street
1947
Heldorado
1946
Home in Oklahoma
1946
Roll on Texas Moon
1946
Under Nevada Skies
1946
My Pal Trigger
1946
Rainbow Over Texas
1946
Badman's Territory
1946
Song of Arizona
1946
Don't Fence Me In
1945
Sunset in El Dorado
1945
Along the Navajo Trail
1945
Man from Oklahoma
1945
Bells of Rosarita
1945
Utah
1945
The Big Bonanza
1944
Lights of Old Santa Fe
1944
Tall in the Saddle
1944
Marshal of Reno
1944
Tucson Raiders
1944
Hidden Valley Outlaws
1944
Mojave Firebrand
1944
In Old Oklahoma
1943
Death Valley Manhunt
1943
Overland Mail Robbery
1943
Wagon Tracks West
1943
Bordertown Gun Fighters
1943
The Man from Thunder River
1943
Calling Wild Bill Elliott
1943
Ridin' Down the Canyon
1942
Heart of the Golden West
1942
Sunset Serenade
1942
Sons of the Pioneers
1942
Romance on the Range
1942
Sunset on the Desert
1942
South of Santa Fe
1942
Man from Cheyenne
1942
Red River Valley
1941
Jesse James at Bay
1941
Bad Man of Deadwood
1941
Nevada City
1941
Sheriff of Tombstone
1941
In Old Cheyenne
1941
Robin Hood of the Pecos
1941
The Border Legion
1940
Young Bill Hickok
1940
Colorado
1940
Melody Ranch
1940
The Ranger and the Lady
1940
The Carson City Kid
1940
Wagons Westward
1940
Dark Command
1940
Young Buffalo Bill
1940
Days of Jesse James
1939
Saga of Death Valley
1939
The Arizona Kid
1939
In Old Monterey
1939
Wall Street Cowboy
1939
Renegade Trail
1939
In Old Caliente
1939
Man of Conquest
1939
Silver on the Sage
1939
Southward Ho!
1939
Sunset Trail
1939
Let Freedom Ring
1939
Fighting Thoroughbreds
1939
The Frontiersmen
1938
In Old Mexico
1938
Pride of the West
1938
Bar 20 Justice
1938
Heart of Arizona
1938
Gold Is Where You Find It
1938
Texas Trail
1937
Hopalong Rides Again
1937
Rustlers' Valley
1937
North of the Rio Grande
1937
Mountain Music
1937
Hills of Old Wyoming
1937
Borderland
1937
Trail Dust
1936
The Plainsman
1936
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
1936
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936
The Texas Rangers
1936
I Married a Doctor
1936
Three on the Trail
1936
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936
Song of the Trail
1936
Call of the Prairie
1936
Heart of the West
1936
The Lawless Nineties
1936
Silver Spurs
1936
Valley of the Lawless
1936
Hitch Hike Lady
1935
Swifty
1935
Bar 20 Rides Again
1935
The Eagle's Brood
1935
$1,000 a Minute
1935
Texas Terror
1935
The Throwback
1935
Thunder Mountain
1935
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
1935
Hop-a-long Cassidy
1935
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
Honeymoon Limited
1935
Ladies Crave Excitement
1935
Justice of the Range
1935
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
1935
The Headline Woman
1935
Tombstone Terror
1935
Smokey Smith
1935
Rainbow Valley
1935
The Outlaw Tamer
1935
The Lost City
1935
Death Flies East
1935
'Neath the Arizona Skies
1934
The Lawless Frontier
1934
Vengence is Mine
1934
In Old Santa Fe
1934
The Brand of Hate
1934
The Man from Hell
1934
The Star Packer
1934
The Drifter
1934
Randy Rides Alone
1934
Bandits of the Badlands
1934
The Shadow Gang
1934
Next Of Kin
1934
Monte Carlo Nights
1934
The Man from Utah
1934
Rodeo Rocketeers
1934
Blue Steel
1934
City Limits
1934
Bedlam of Beards
1934
House of Mystery
1934
Mystery Liner
1934
Beggars in Ermine
1934
West of the Divide
1934
The Lucky Texan
1934
Claim Jumpers
1934
Riders of Destiny
1933
Ship of Wanted Men
1933
Skyway
1933
The Devil's Mate
1933
Ranger's Code
1933
Galloping Romeo
1933
The Fugitive
1933
Fighting Texans
1933
The Sphinx
1933
Crashing Broadway
1933
The Gallant Fool
1933
The Return of Casey Jones
1933
Trailing North
1933
The Phantom Broadcast
1933
Breed of the Border
1933
The Fighting Champ
1932
Self Defense
1932
Wild Horse Mesa
1932
Texas Buddies
1932
Hidden Valley
1932
Broadway to Cheyenne
1932
Klondike
1932
The Night Rider
1932
Love Me Tonight
1932
A Slip at the Switch
1932
Winner Take All
1932
The Boiling Point
1932
The Man from Hell's Edges
1932
Riders of the Desert
1932
Border Devils
1932
Play Girl
1932
Sally of the Subway
1932
Dragnet Patrol
1931
Cavalier of the West
1931
Oklahoma Jim
1931
The Nevada Buckaroo
1931
Big Business Girl
1931
God's Country and the Man
1931
The Stolen Jools
1931
Dirigible
1931
Top Speed
1930
For the Defense
1930
She Who Gets Slapped
1930
Playing Around
1930
Big News
1929
Smiling Irish Eyes
1929
Rainbow Man
1929
The House Without Children
1919