George 'Gabby' Hayes
Acting
1885-05-06 · 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.
Filmography
It's Howdy Doody Time: A 40-Year Celebration
1987 · Movie
Western von gestern
1978 · Series
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976 · Movie
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975 · Movie
The Western: A Lost TV Special
1958 · Movie
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956 · Series
The Gabby Hayes Show
1956 · Series
The Gabby Hayes Show
1950 · Series
The Cariboo Trail
1950 · Movie
What's My Line?
1950 · Series
El Paso
1949 · Movie
The Untamed Breed
1948 · Movie
Return of the Bad Men
1948 · Movie
Albuquerque
1948 · Movie
Wyoming
1947 · Movie
Trail Street
1947 · Movie
Heldorado
1946 · Movie
Home in Oklahoma
1946 · Movie
Roll on Texas Moon
1946 · Movie
Under Nevada Skies
1946 · Movie
My Pal Trigger
1946 · Movie
Rainbow Over Texas
1946 · Movie
Badman's Territory
1946 · Movie
Song of Arizona
1946 · Movie
Don't Fence Me In
1945 · Movie
Sunset in El Dorado
1945 · Movie
Along the Navajo Trail
1945 · Movie
Man from Oklahoma
1945 · Movie
Bells of Rosarita
1945 · Movie
Utah
1945 · Movie
The Big Bonanza
1944 · Movie
Lights of Old Santa Fe
1944 · Movie
Tall in the Saddle
1944 · Movie
Marshal of Reno
1944 · Movie
Tucson Raiders
1944 · Movie
Hidden Valley Outlaws
1944 · Movie
Mojave Firebrand
1944 · Movie
In Old Oklahoma
1943 · Movie
Death Valley Manhunt
1943 · Movie
Overland Mail Robbery
1943 · Movie
Wagon Tracks West
1943 · Movie
Bordertown Gun Fighters
1943 · Movie
The Man from Thunder River
1943 · Movie
Calling Wild Bill Elliott
1943 · Movie
Ridin' Down the Canyon
1942 · Movie
Heart of the Golden West
1942 · Movie
Sunset Serenade
1942 · Movie
The Sons of the Pioneers
1942 · Movie
Romance on the Range
1942 · Movie
Sunset on the Desert
1942 · Movie
South of Santa Fe
1942 · Movie
Man from Cheyenne
1942 · Movie
Red River Valley
1941 · Movie
Jesse James at Bay
1941 · Movie
Bad Man of Deadwood
1941 · Movie
Nevada City
1941 · Movie
Sheriff of Tombstone
1941 · Movie
In Old Cheyenne
1941 · Movie
Robin Hood of the Pecos
1941 · Movie
The Border Legion
1940 · Movie
Young Bill Hickok
1940 · Movie
Colorado
1940 · Movie
Melody Ranch
1940 · Movie
The Ranger and the Lady
1940 · Movie
The Carson City Kid
1940 · Movie
Wagons Westward
1940 · Movie
Dark Command
1940 · Movie
Young Buffalo Bill
1940 · Movie
Days of Jesse James
1939 · Movie
Saga of Death Valley
1939 · Movie
The Arizona Kid
1939 · Movie
In Old Monterey
1939 · Movie
Wall Street Cowboy
1939 · Movie
Renegade Trail
1939 · Movie
In Old Caliente
1939 · Movie
Man of Conquest
1939 · Movie
Silver on the Sage
1939 · Movie
Southward Ho!
1939 · Movie
Sunset Trail
1939 · Movie
Let Freedom Ring
1939 · Movie
Fighting Thoroughbreds
1939 · Movie
The Frontiersmen
1938 · Movie
In Old Mexico
1938 · Movie
Pride of the West
1938 · Movie
Bar 20 Justice
1938 · Movie
Heart of Arizona
1938 · Movie
Gold Is Where You Find It
1938 · Movie
Texas Trail
1937 · Movie
Hopalong Rides Again
1937 · Movie
Rustlers' Valley
1937 · Movie
North of the Rio Grande
1937 · Movie
Mountain Music
1937 · Movie
Hills of Old Wyoming
1937 · Movie
Borderland
1937 · Movie
Trail Dust
1936 · Movie
The Plainsman
1936 · Movie
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
1936 · Movie
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936 · Movie
The Texas Rangers
1936 · Movie
I Married a Doctor
1936 · Movie
Three on the Trail
1936 · Movie
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936 · Movie
Song of the Trail
1936 · Movie
Call of the Prairie
1936 · Movie
Heart of the West
1936 · Movie
The Lawless Nineties
1936 · Movie
Silverspurs
1936 · Movie
Valley of the Lawless
1936 · Movie
Hitch Hike Lady
1935 · Movie
Swifty
1935 · Movie
Bar 20 Rides Again
1935 · Movie
The Eagle's Brood
1935 · Movie
$1,000 a Minute
1935 · Movie
Texas Terror
1935 · Movie
The Throwback
1935 · Movie
Thunder Mountain
1935 · Movie
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
1935 · Movie
Hop-a-long Cassidy
1935 · Movie
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935 · Movie
Honeymoon Limited
1935 · Movie
Ladies Crave Excitement
1935 · Movie
Justice of the Range
1935 · Movie
The Headline Woman
1935 · Movie
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
1935 · Movie
Tombstone Terror
1935 · Movie
Smokey Smith
1935 · Movie
The Outlaw Tamer
1935 · Movie
Rainbow Valley
1935 · Movie
The Lost City
1935 · Movie
Death Flies East
1935 · Movie
'Neath the Arizona Skies
1934 · Movie
The Lawless Frontier
1934 · Movie
Vengence is Mine
1934 · Movie
In Old Santa Fe
1934 · Movie
The Brand of Hate
1934 · Movie
The Man from Hell
1934 · Movie
The Star Packer
1934 · Movie
The Drifter
1934 · Movie
Randy Rides Alone
1934 · Movie
The Shadow Gang
1934 · Movie
Next Of Kin
1934 · Movie
Bandits of the Badlands
1934 · Movie
Monte Carlo Nights
1934 · Movie
Rodeo Rocketeers
1934 · Movie
The Man from Utah
1934 · Movie
Blue Steel
1934 · Movie
City Limits
1934 · Movie
Bedlam of Beards
1934 · Movie
House of Mystery
1934 · Movie
Mystery Liner
1934 · Movie
Beggars in Ermine
1934 · Movie
West of the Divide
1934 · Movie
Claim Jumpers
1934 · Movie
The Lucky Texan
1934 · Movie
Riders of Destiny
1933 · Movie
Ship of Wanted Men
1933 · Movie
Skyway
1933 · Movie
The Devil's Mate
1933 · Movie
Ranger's Code
1933 · Movie
Galloping Romeo
1933 · Movie
The Fugitive
1933 · Movie
Fighting Texans
1933 · Movie
The Sphinx
1933 · Movie
Crashing Broadway
1933 · Movie
The Gallant Fool
1933 · Movie
The Return of Casey Jones
1933 · Movie
Trailing North
1933 · Movie
The Phantom Broadcast
1933 · Movie
Breed of the Border
1933 · Movie
Self Defense
1932 · Movie
The Fighting Champ
1932 · Movie
Wild Horse Mesa
1932 · Movie
Texas Buddies
1932 · Movie
Hidden Valley
1932 · Movie
Broadway to Cheyenne
1932 · Movie
Klondike
1932 · Movie
The Night Rider
1932 · Movie
Love Me Tonight
1932 · Movie
A Slip at the Switch
1932 · Movie
Winner Take All
1932 · Movie
The Boiling Point
1932 · Movie
The Man from Hell's Edges
1932 · Movie
Riders of the Desert
1932 · Movie
Border Devils
1932 · Movie
Play Girl
1932 · Movie
Sally of the Subway
1932 · Movie
Dragnet Patrol
1931 · Movie
Cavalier of the West
1931 · Movie
Oklahoma Jim
1931 · Movie
The Nevada Buckaroo
1931 · Movie
Big Business Girl
1931 · Movie
God's Country and the Man
1931 · Movie
The Stolen Jools
1931 · Movie
Dirigible
1931 · Movie
Top Speed
1930 · Movie
For the Defense
1930 · Movie
She Who Gets Slapped
1930 · Movie
Playing Around
1930 · Movie
Big News
1929 · Movie
Smiling Irish Eyes
1929 · Movie
Rainbow Man
1929 · Movie
The House Without Children
1919 · Movie