George 'Gabby' Hayes
Born on May 6th, 1885
Wellsville, New York, USA
Died on February 9th, 1969
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.
Filmography Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976
(archive footage)
Details Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
Self (archive footage)
Details The Cariboo Trail
1950
Grizzly
Details The Untamed Breed
1948
Windy Lucas
Details Return of the Bad Men
1948
John Pettit
Details Trail Street
1947
Billy Jones
Details Heldorado
1946
Gabby Whittaker
Details Home in Oklahoma
1946
Gabby Whittaker
Details Roll on Texas Moon
1946
Gabby Whittaker
Details Under Nevada Skies
1946
Gabby Whittaker
Details My Pal Trigger
1946
Gabby Kendrick
Details Rainbow Over Texas
1946
Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker
Details Badman's Territory
1946
Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid
Details Song of Arizona
1946
Gabby Whittaker
Details Don't Fence Me In
1945
Gabby Whittaker
Details Sunset in El Dorado
1945
Gabby
Details Along the Navajo Trail
1945
Gabby Whittaker
Details Man from Oklahoma
1945
Gabby Whittaker
Details Bells of Rosarita
1945
Gabby Whittake
Details The Big Bonanza
1944
Hap Selby
Details Lights of Old Santa Fe
1944
Gabby Whittaker
Details Tucson Raiders
1944
'Gabby' Hopkins
Details Hidden Valley Outlaws
1944
Gabby Hayes
Details Mojave Firebrand
1944
Gabby Hayes
Details In Old Oklahoma
1943
Despirit Dean
Details Death Valley Manhunt
1943
Gabby Hayes
Details Overland Mail Robbery
1943
Gabby
Details Bordertown Gun Fighters
1943
Gabby Hayes
Details The Man from Thunder River
1943
Gabby Whittaker
Details Calling Wild Bill Elliott
1943
Gabby Hayes
Details Ridin' Down the Canyon
1942
Gabby
Details Heart of the Golden West
1942
Gabby
Details Sons of the Pioneers
1942
Gabby Whittaker
Details Romance on the Range
1942
Gabby
Details Sunset on the Desert
1942
Gabby Whittaker
Details South of Santa Fe
1942
Gabby Whittaker
Details Man from Cheyenne
1942
Gabby Whittaker
Details Red River Valley
1941
Gabby Whittaker
Details Jesse James at Bay
1941
Sheriff Gabby Whitaker
Details Bad Man of Deadwood
1941
Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone
Details Nevada City
1941
Gabby Chapman
Details Sheriff of Tombstone
1941
Gabby
Details In Old Cheyenne
1941
Arapaho Brown
Details Robin Hood of the Pecos
1941
Gabriel Gabby Hornaday
Details The Border Legion
1940
Honest John Whittaker
Details Young Bill Hickok
1940
'Gabby' Whitaker
Details Melody Ranch
1940
Pop Laramie
Details The Ranger and the Lady
1940
Gabby Whittaker
Details The Carson City Kid
1940
Gabby Whittaker
Details Wagons Westward
1940
Hardtack
Details Dark Command
1940
Andrew 'Doc' Grunch
Details Young Buffalo Bill
1940
Gabby Whittaker
Details Days of Jesse James
1939
Gabby
Details Saga of Death Valley
1939
Gabby
Details The Arizona Kid
1939
Gabby Whittaker
Details In Old Monterey
1939
Gabby Whittaker
Details Wall Street Cowboy
1939
Gabby
Details Renegade Trail
1939
Windy Halliday
Details Man of Conquest
1939
Lannie Upchurch
Details Silver on the Sage
1939
Windy Halliday
Details Sunset Trail
1939
Windy Halliday
Details Let Freedom Ring
1939
Pop Wilkie
Details Fighting Thoroughbreds
1939
Gramps Montrose
Details The Frontiersmen
1938
Windy Halliday
Details In Old Mexico
1938
Windy Halliday
Details Pride of the West
1938
Windy Halliday
Details Bar 20 Justice
1938
Windy Halliday
Details Heart of Arizona
1938
Windy Halliday
Details Gold Is Where You Find It
1938
Enoch
Details Texas Trail
1937
Windy Halliday
Details Hopalong Rides Again
1937
Windy Halliday
Details Rustlers' Valley
1937
Windy Halliday
Details North of the Rio Grande
1937
Windy Halliday
Details Mountain Music
1937
Granpappy Burnside
Details Hills of Old Wyoming
1937
Windy Halliday
Details Borderland
1937
Windy Halliday
Details Trail Dust
1936
Windy Halliday
Details Hopalong Cassidy Returns
1936
Windy Halliday
Details Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936
Bearded Man
Details The Texas Rangers
1936
Judge Snow
Details I Married a Doctor
1936
Train Station Agent
Details Three on the Trail
1936
Windy Halliday
Details Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936
Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)
Details Song of the Trail
1936
Dan Hobson
Details Call of the Prairie
1936
Shanghai McHenry
Details Heart of the West
1936
Windy Jenkins
Details The Lawless Nineties
1936
Major Carter
Details Silver Spurs
1936
Drag Harlan
Details Valley of the Lawless
1936
Grandpaw Jenkins
Details Swifty
1935
Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes)
Details Bar 20 Rides Again
1935
Windy Halliday
Details $1,000 a Minute
1935
New Deal Watson
Details Texas Terror
1935
Sheriff Ed Williams
Details The Throwback
1935
Ford Cruze
Details Tumbling Tumbleweeds
1935
Dr. Parker
Details Hop-a-long Cassidy
1935
Uncle Ben
Details The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
Lucas
Details Honeymoon Limited
1935
Pinkham
Details Ladies Crave Excitement
1935
McCloskey
Details Justice of the Range
1935
John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson
Details The Hoosier Schoolmaster
1935
Pearson (as George Hayes)
Details The Headline Woman
1935
Duffy
Details Tombstone Terror
1935
Soupy Baxter
Details Rainbow Valley
1935
George Hale
Details The Outlaw Tamer
1935
Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes)
Details The Lost City
1935
Butterfield
Details Death Flies East
1935
Wotkyns
Details 'Neath the Arizona Skies
1934
Matt Downing
Details The Lawless Frontier
1934
Dusty
Details The Brand of Hate
1934
Bill Larkins
Details The Man from Hell
1934
Banker Colonel Campbell
Details The Star Packer
1934
Matt Matlock
Details Randy Rides Alone
1934
- Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute
Details Bandits of the Badlands
1934
Sheriff Jake Withers
Details The Shadow Gang
1934
Matt Matlock
Details Monte Carlo Nights
1934
Inspector Nick Gunby
Details The Man from Utah
1934
Marshal George Higgins
Details Blue Steel
1934
Sheriff Jake Withers
Details City Limits
1934
Charlie Carter
Details Bedlam of Beards
1934
Character TBA
Details House of Mystery
1934
David Fells
Details Mystery Liner
1934
Joe, the Watchman
Details Beggars in Ermine
1934
Joe Wilson
Details West of the Divide
1934
'Dusty'
Details The Lucky Texan
1934
Jake 'Grandy' Benson
Details Claim Jumpers
1934
Jake Benson
Details Riders of Destiny
1933
Charlie Denton
Details Ship of Wanted Men
1933
Crewman
Details The Devil's Mate
1933
Collins
Details Ranger's Code
1933
Baxter (as George Hayes)
Details The Fugitive
1933
Judge Tyler
Details Fighting Texans
1933
Pop Martin
Details The Sphinx
1933
Detective Casey
Details Crashing Broadway
1933
J. Talbot Thorndyke
Details The Gallant Fool
1933
Dad Denton
Details The Return of Casey Jones
1933
Timothy Shine
Details Trailing North
1933
Flash Ryan
Details The Phantom Broadcast
1933
Police Lieutenant
Details Breed of the Border
1933
Chuck Wiggins
Details Self Defense
1932
Jury Foreman
Details Hidden Valley
1932
Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat
Details Broadway to Cheyenne
1932
Walrus
Details The Night Rider
1932
Altoonie
Details Love Me Tonight
1932
Grocer (uncredited)
Details A Slip at the Switch
1932
Deputy Smoot
Details Winner Take All
1932
Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited)
Details The Boiling Point
1932
George Duncan
Details The Man from Hell's Edges
1932
Shamrock Cassidy
Details Riders of the Desert
1932
Hashknife Brooks
Details Border Devils
1932
Squint Sanders
Details Play Girl
1932
Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited)
Details Sally of the Subway
1932
Police Lieutenant Paxton
Details Dragnet Patrol
1931
Private Detective
Details Cavalier of the West
1931
Sheriff Bill Ryan
Details Oklahoma Jim
1931
Crooked Gambler
Details The Nevada Buckaroo
1931
Cherokee Williams
Details Big Business Girl
1931
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Details God's Country and the Man
1931
Stingaree Kelly
Details The Stolen Jools
1931
Projectionist
Details Dirigible
1931
Parade Official (uncredited)
Details Top Speed
1930
Western Union Clerk
Details For the Defense
1930
Ben (the waiter)
Details She Who Gets Slapped
1930
Poker Player
Details Playing Around
1930
Railroad Ticket-Seller (uncredited)
Details Smiling Irish Eyes
1929
Taxi Driver
Details The House Without Children
1919
Archibald Ponsonby
Details