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 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.
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- Born:
- May 7, 1885 In Wellsville, New York, United States
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 166
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Big News 1929-09-06
- Latest Project:
- Movie Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch 1976-05-01
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch | (archive footage) | 1976-05-01 |
| Movie | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | (archive footage) | 1975-08-06 |
| Series | The Dinah Shore Chevy Show | Unknown | 1956-10-05 |
| Series | What's My Line? | Himself - Mystery Guest | 1950-02-02 |
| Series | The Gabby Hayes Show | Himself | 1950-12-11 |
| Movie | The Cariboo Trail | Grizzly | 1950-08-01 |
| Movie | El Paso | Sheriff La Farge | 1949-03-22 |
| Movie | Albuquerque | Juke | 1948-02-20 |
| Movie | The Untamed Breed | Windy Lucas | 1948-10-20 |
| Movie | Return of the Bad Men | John Pettit (as George 'Gabby' Hayes) | 1948-07-17 |
| Movie | Trail Street | Deputy Billy Burns | 1947-02-19 |
| Movie | Wyoming | Windy Gibson | 1947-07-28 |
| Movie | Badman's Territory | Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid | 1946-05-04 |
| Movie | My Pal Trigger | Gabby Kendrick | 1946-07-10 |
| Movie | Song of Arizona | Gabby Whittaker | 1946-03-08 |
| Movie | Rainbow Over Texas | Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker | 1946-05-09 |
| Movie | Under Nevada Skies | Gabby Whittaker | 1946-08-26 |
| Movie | Home in Oklahoma | Gabby Whittaker | 1946-10-18 |
| Movie | Roll on Texas Moon | Gabby Whittaker | 1946-09-12 |
| Movie | Heldorado | Gabby Whittaker | 1946-12-15 |
| Movie | Bells of Rosarita | Gabby Whittake | 1945-06-19 |
| Movie | Man from Oklahoma | Gabby Whittaker | 1945-07-01 |
| Movie | Utah | Gabby Wittaker | 1945-03-21 |
| Movie | Along the Navajo Trail | Gabby Whittaker | 1945-09-15 |
| Movie | Don't Fence Me In | Gabby Whittaker, aka Wildcat Kelly | 1945-10-20 |
| Movie | Sunset in El Dorado | Gabby | 1945-09-29 |
| Movie | Tucson Raiders | 'Gabby' Hopkins | 1944-05-14 |
| Movie | Mojave Firebrand | Gabby Hayes | 1944-03-19 |
| Movie | Hidden Valley Outlaws | Gabby Hayes | 1944-04-01 |
| Movie | Marshal of Reno | Gabby | 1944-07-02 |
| Movie | Tall in the Saddle | Dave | 1944-09-29 |
| Movie | The Big Bonanza | Hap Selby | 1944-12-30 |
| Movie | Lights of Old Santa Fe | Gabby Whittaker | 1944-11-06 |
| Movie | Bordertown Gun Fighters | Gabby Hayes | 1943-07-08 |
| Movie | Wagon Tracks West | Gabby | 1943-08-18 |
| Movie | The Man from Thunder River | Gabby Whittaker | 1943-06-11 |
| Movie | Calling Wild Bill Elliott | Gabby Hayes | 1943-04-30 |
| Movie | Overland Mail Robbery | Gabby | 1943-11-20 |
| Movie | In Old Oklahoma | Despirit Dean (stage driver) | 1943-12-06 |
| Movie | Death Valley Manhunt | Gabby Hayes | 1943-11-25 |
| Movie | Sunset on the Desert | Gabby Whittaker | 1942-04-01 |
| Movie | South of Santa Fe | Gabby Whittaker | 1942-02-17 |
| Movie | Romance on the Range | Gabby | 1942-05-18 |
| Movie | Man from Cheyenne | Gabby Whittaker | 1942-01-16 |
| Movie | Sons of the Pioneers | Gabby Whittaker | 1942-07-02 |
| Movie | Heart of the Golden West | Gabby | 1942-11-16 |
| Movie | Ridin' Down the Canyon | Gabby | 1942-12-30 |
| Movie | Sunset Serenade | Gabby | 1942-09-14 |
| Movie | Sheriff of Tombstone | Gabby | 1941-05-07 |
| Movie | Robin Hood of the Pecos | Gabriel Gabby Hornaday | 1941-01-14 |
| Movie | In Old Cheyenne | Arapaho Brown | 1941-04-04 |
| Movie | Nevada City | Gabby Chapman | 1941-06-19 |
| Movie | Bad Man of Deadwood | Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone | 1941-09-05 |
| Movie | Red River Valley | Gabby Whittaker | 1941-12-12 |
| Movie | Jesse James at Bay | Sheriff Gabby Whitaker | 1941-10-17 |
| Movie | Wagons Westward | Hardtack | 1940-06-19 |
| Movie | The Carson City Kid | Gabby | 1940-07-01 |
| Movie | Young Buffalo Bill | Gabby Whittaker | 1940-04-11 |
| Movie | Dark Command | Andrew 'Doc' Grunch | 1940-04-15 |
| Movie | Melody Ranch | Pop Laramie | 1940-09-15 |
| Movie | The Ranger and the Lady | Gabby Whittaker | 1940-07-30 |
| Movie | The Border Legion | Honest John Whittaker | 1940-12-05 |
| Movie | Young Bill Hickok | 'Gabby' Whitaker | 1940-10-21 |
| Movie | Colorado | Gabby | 1940-09-15 |
| Movie | Silver on the Sage | Windy Halliday | 1939-03-31 |
| Movie | Southward Ho! | Gabby Whitaker | 1939-03-19 |
| Movie | Fighting Thoroughbreds | Gramps Montrose | 1939-01-06 |
| Movie | Man of Conquest | Lannie Upchurch | 1939-05-15 |
| Movie | Sunset Trail | Windy Halliday (as George Hayes) | 1939-02-24 |
| Movie | Let Freedom Ring | Pop Wilkie | 1939-02-24 |
| Movie | Renegade Trail | Marshal 'Windy'Halliday (as George Hayes) | 1939-07-25 |
| Movie | Saga of Death Valley | Gabby | 1939-11-17 |
| Movie | Days of Jesse James | Gabby | 1939-12-20 |
| Movie | In Old Caliente | Gabby | 1939-06-19 |
| Movie | The Arizona Kid | Gabby Whittaker | 1939-09-28 |
| Movie | In Old Monterey | Gabby Whittaker | 1939-08-14 |
| Movie | Wall Street Cowboy | Gabby | 1939-08-06 |
| Movie | Heart of Arizona | 'Windy' Halliday (as George Hayes) | 1938-04-22 |
| Movie | Bar 20 Justice | Windy Halliday | 1938-06-24 |
| Movie | Gold Is Where You Find It | Enoch | 1938-02-12 |
| Movie | Pride of the West | Windy Halliday (as George Hayes) | 1938-07-07 |
| Movie | The Frontiersmen | Windy Halliday | 1938-12-16 |
| Movie | In Old Mexico | 'Windy' Halliday (as George Hayes) | 1938-09-09 |
| Movie | Borderland | Windy Halliday (as George Hayes) | 1937-02-26 |
| Movie | North of the Rio Grande | Windy Halliday | 1937-06-28 |
| Movie | Hills of Old Wyoming | Windy (as George Hayes) | 1937-04-16 |
| Movie | Rustlers' Valley | Windy Halliday | 1937-07-23 |
| Movie | Texas Trail | Windy Halliday | 1937-11-26 |
| Movie | Hopalong Rides Again | Windy Halliday | 1937-08-20 |
| Movie | Call of the Prairie | Shanghai McHenry | 1936-03-06 |
| Movie | Song of the Trail | Dan Hobson | 1936-03-15 |
| Movie | Heart of the West | Windy Jenkins (as George Hayes) | 1936-02-24 |
| Movie | Valley of the Lawless | Grandpaw Jenkins (as George Hayes) | 1936-01-25 |
| Movie | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited) | 1936-04-09 |
| Movie | The Lawless Nineties | Major Carter | 1936-02-15 |
| Movie | I Married a Doctor | Train Station Agent | 1936-04-25 |
| Movie | The Plainsman | Breezy | 1936-11-16 |
| Movie | Three on the Trail | 'Windy' Halliday (as George Hayes) | 1936-04-14 |
| Movie | Hopalong Cassidy Returns | Windy Halliday (as George Hayes) | 1936-10-16 |
| Movie | Trail Dust | 'Windy' Halliday (as George Hayes) | 1936-12-11 |
| Movie | Valiant Is the Word for Carrie | Bearded Man | 1936-10-06 |
| Movie | The Texas Rangers | Judge Snow | 1936-08-28 |
| Movie | Smokey Smith | Blaze Bart | 1935-04-01 |
| Movie | Ladies Crave Excitement | McCloskey | 1935-06-21 |
| Movie | Rainbow Valley | George Hale | 1935-03-15 |
| Movie | Tombstone Terror | Soupy Baxter | 1935-04-24 |
| Movie | The Lost City | Butterfield | 1935-03-06 |
| Movie | Honeymoon Limited | Pinkham | 1935-07-01 |
| Movie | Death Flies East | Wotkyns | 1935-02-28 |
| Movie | The Outlaw Tamer | 1935-03-15 | |
| Movie | Swifty | 1935-12-12 | |
| Movie | The Eagle's Brood | Bartender Spike (as George Hayes) | 1935-10-25 |
| Movie | Hop-a-long Cassidy | Uncle Ben | 1935-08-23 |
| Movie | $1,000 a Minute | New Deal Watson | 1935-10-21 |
| Movie | Bar 20 Rides Again | Windy (as George Hayes) | 1935-12-06 |
| Movie | Texas Terror | Sheriff Ed Williams | 1935-10-17 |
| Movie | Tumbling Tumbleweeds | Dr. Parker (as George Hayes) | 1935-09-05 |
| Movie | Thunder Mountain | Foley | 1935-09-27 |
| Movie | Bedlam of Beards | Unknown | 1934-04-13 |
| Movie | City Limits | Charlie Carter | 1934-04-14 |
| Movie | Blue Steel | Sheriff Jake Withers | 1934-05-10 |
| Movie | West of the Divide | 'Dusty' | 1934-02-15 |
| Movie | The Lucky Texan | Jake 'Grandy' Benson | 1934-01-22 |
| Movie | Mystery Liner | Joe, the Watchman | 1934-03-15 |
| Movie | House of Mystery | David Fells (as George Hayes) | 1934-03-30 |
| Movie | The Star Packer | Matt Matlock | 1934-07-30 |
| Movie | The Lawless Frontier | Dusty | 1934-11-22 |
| Movie | The Man from Utah | Marshal George Higgins | 1934-05-15 |
| Movie | The Brand of Hate | Bill Larkins | 1934-11-02 |
| Movie | In Old Santa Fe | Cactus | 1934-11-15 |
| Movie | The Man from Hell | Banker Colonel Campbell | 1934-08-28 |
| Movie | Randy Rides Alone | - Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute | 1934-06-05 |
| Movie | Monte Carlo Nights | Inspector Nick Gunby | 1934-05-20 |
| Movie | The Gallant Fool | Dad Denton (as George Hayes) | 1933-05-28 |
| Movie | The Return of Casey Jones | Timothy Shine | 1933-05-24 |
| Movie | Trailing North | Unknown | 1933-05-15 |
| Movie | Breed of the Border | Chuck Wiggins | 1933-03-01 |
| Movie | The Sphinx | Detective Casey | 1933-06-01 |
| Movie | Galloping Romeo | Grizzly | 1933-08-04 |
| Movie | Riders of Destiny | Charlie Denton | 1933-10-10 |
| Movie | Skyway | George Taylor | 1933-08-29 |
| Movie | Ship of Wanted Men | Crewman (as George Hayes) | 1933-09-08 |
| Movie | Ranger's Code | 1933-08-14 | |
| Movie | The Man from Hell's Edges | Shamrock Cassidy | 1932-05-05 |
| Movie | Winner Take All | Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited) | 1932-07-16 |
| Movie | Riders of the Desert | Hashknife Brooks | 1932-04-23 |
| Movie | Sally of the Subway | Police Lieutenant Paxton | 1932-01-15 |
| Movie | A Slip at the Switch | Deputy Smoot | 1932-08-08 |
| Movie | Play Girl | Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited) | 1932-03-12 |
| Movie | Texas Buddies | Si Haller | 1932-10-18 |
| Movie | Love Me Tonight | Grocer (uncredited) | 1932-08-18 |
| Movie | The Fighting Champ | Pete (as George Hayes) | 1932-12-15 |
| Movie | Wild Horse Mesa | Slack | 1932-11-25 |
| Movie | The Night Rider | Altoonie | 1932-08-22 |
| Movie | Klondike | Tom Ross (as George Hayes) | 1932-08-29 |
| Movie | The Stolen Jools | Projectionist | 1931-04-04 |
| Movie | Dirigible | Parade Official (uncredited) | 1931-02-01 |
| Movie | Big Business Girl | Hotel Clerk (uncredited) | 1931-06-12 |
| Movie | The Nevada Buckaroo | Cherokee | 1931-07-28 |
| Movie | Cavalier of the West | Sheriff Bill Ryan | 1931-11-15 |
| Movie | Dragnet Patrol | Private Detective | 1931-12-14 |
| Movie | She Who Gets Slapped | Poker Player | 1930-05-15 |
| Movie | Playing Around | Railroad Ticket-Seller | 1930-01-10 |
| Movie | For the Defense | Ben (the waiter) | 1930-07-19 |
| Movie | Top Speed | Western Union Clerk | 1930-08-24 |
| Movie | Big News | Reporter Hoffman (as George Hayes) | 1929-09-06 |