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)
Texas Buddies
1932
as Si Haller
Dirigible
1931
as Parade Official (uncredited)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936
as Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)
Love Me Tonight
1932
as Grocer (uncredited)
Rodeo Rocketeers
1934
as Marshall George
In Old Oklahoma
1943
as Despirit Dean
The Plainsman
1936
as Breezy
Tall in the Saddle
1944
as Dave
Blue Steel
1934
as Sheriff Jake Withers
Along the Navajo Trail
1945
as Gabby Whittaker
Wall Street Cowboy
1939
as Gabby
Heart of Arizona
1938
as Windy Halliday
Dark Command
1940
as Andrew 'Doc' Grunch
Heart of the West
1936
as Windy Jenkins
'Neath the Arizona Skies
1934
as Matt Downing
Hop-a-long Cassidy
1935
as Uncle Ben
It's Howdy Doody Time: A 40-Year Celebration
1987
as Self (archive footage)
The Sons of the Pioneers
1942
as Gabby Whittaker
Ladies Crave Excitement
1935
as McCloskey
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
as Self (archive footage)
The Devil's Mate
1933
as Collins
The Lawless Frontier
1934
as Dusty
Silverspurs
1936
as Drag Harlan
A Slip at the Switch
1932
as Deputy Smoot
Song of Arizona
1946
as Gabby Whittaker
The Stolen Jools
1931
as Projectionist
House of Mystery
1934
as David Fells
Return of the Bad Men
1948
as John Pettit
Trail Street
1947
as Billy Jones
Sunset on the Desert
1942
as Gabby Whittaker
Riders of the Desert
1932
as Hashknife Brooks
Riders of Destiny
1933
as Charlie Denton
The Nevada Buckaroo
1931
as Cherokee Williams
Big Business Girl
1931
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
The Lawless Nineties
1936
as Major Carter
West of the Divide
1934
as 'Dusty'
Next Of Kin
1934
as 'Dusty'
Overland Mail Robbery
1943
as Gabby
Ridin' Down the Canyon
1942
as Gabby
Justice of the Range
1935
as John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson
The Shadow Gang
1934
as Matt Matlock
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
1936
as Windy Halliday
Red River Valley
1941
as Gabby Whittaker
Don't Fence Me In
1945
as Gabby Whittaker
Valley of the Lawless
1936
as Grandpaw Jenkins
El Paso
1949
as Pesky Tees
The Star Packer
1934
as Matt Matlock
Badman's Territory
1946
as Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid
Randy Rides Alone
1934
as - Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute
The Cariboo Trail
1950
as Grizzly
Southward Ho!
1939
as Gabby
The Man from Utah
1934
as Marshal George Higgins
Mystery Liner
1934
as Joe, the Watchman
The Night Rider
1932
as Altoonie
Heart of the Golden West
1942
as Gabby
The Lucky Texan
1934
as Jake 'Grandy' Benson
Mountain Music
1937
as Granpappy Burnside
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
as Lucas
Hills of Old Wyoming
1937
as Windy Halliday
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936
as Bearded Man
Heldorado
1946
as Gabby Whittaker
South of Santa Fe
1942
as Gabby Whittaker
Gold Is Where You Find It
1938
as Enoch
Trailing North
1933
as Flash Ryan
Lights of Old Santa Fe
1944
as Gabby Whittaker
Melody Ranch
1940
as Pop Laramie
Sunset in El Dorado
1945
as Gabby
North of the Rio Grande
1937
as Windy Halliday
Colorado
1940
as Gabby
Sheriff of Tombstone
1941
as Gabby
The Carson City Kid
1940
as Gabby Whittaker
The Texas Rangers
1936
as Judge Snow
The Ranger and the Lady
1940
as Gabby Whittaker
Bar 20 Rides Again
1935
as Windy Halliday
Beggars in Ermine
1934
as Joe Wilson
Home in Oklahoma
1946
as Gabby Whittaker
The Eagle's Brood
1935
as Spike
The Frontiersmen
1938
as Windy Halliday
Pride of the West
1938
as Windy Halliday
Winner Take All
1932
as Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited)
In Old Cheyenne
1941
as Arapaho Brown
Wagon Tracks West
1943
as Gabby
Days of Jesse James
1939
as Gabby
Sunset Trail
1939
as Windy Halliday
Rainbow Valley
1935
as George Hale
Under Nevada Skies
1946
as Gabby Whittaker
Monte Carlo Nights
1934
as Inspector Nick Gunby
In Old Monterey
1939
as Gabby Whittaker
Roll on Texas Moon
1946
as Gabby Whittaker
Bar 20 Justice
1938
as Windy Halliday
The Big Bonanza
1944
as Hap Selby
Texas Terror
1935
as Sheriff Ed Williams
Call of the Prairie
1936
as Shanghai McHenry
Renegade Trail
1939
as Windy Halliday
Sunset Serenade
1942
as Gabby
Hidden Valley Outlaws
1944
as Gabby Hayes
Three on the Trail
1936
as Windy Halliday
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976
as (archive footage)
Nevada City
1941
as Gabby Chapman
Bandits of the Badlands
1934
as Sheriff Jake Withers
Saga of Death Valley
1939
as Gabby
The Man from Thunder River
1943
as Gabby Whittaker
The Sphinx
1933
as Detective Casey
Albuquerque
1948
as Juke
Borderland
1937
as Windy Halliday
Young Buffalo Bill
1940
as Gabby Whittaker
In Old Mexico
1938
as Windy Halliday
Claim Jumpers
1934
as Jake Benson
Bordertown Gun Fighters
1943
as Gabby Hayes
Rainbow Over Texas
1946
as Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker
The Western: A Lost TV Special
1958
as Self
In Old Caliente
1939
as Gabby
Tucson Raiders
1944
as 'Gabby' Hopkins
Man from Cheyenne
1942
as Gabby Whittaker
The House Without Children
1919
as Archibald Ponsonby
Man of Conquest
1939
as Lannie Upchurch
Trail Dust
1936
as Windy Halliday
Let Freedom Ring
1939
as Pop Wilkie
Rustlers' Valley
1937
as Windy Halliday
Romance on the Range
1942
as Gabby
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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- Texas Buddies (1932) — as Si Haller
- Dirigible (1931) — as Parade Official (uncredited)
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) — as Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)
- Love Me Tonight (1932) — as Grocer (uncredited)
- Rodeo Rocketeers (1934) — as Marshall George
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