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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
May 6, 1885
Place of Birth:
Wellsville, New York, USA
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George '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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch | (archive footage) |
| 1975 | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) |
| 1950 | The Cariboo Trail | Grizzly |
| 1949 | El Paso | Pesky Tees |
| 1948 | Albuquerque | Juke |
| 1948 | Return of the Bad Men | John Pettit |
| 1948 | The Untamed Breed | Windy Lucas |
| 1947 | Trail Street | Billy Jones |
| 1947 | Wyoming | Windy Gibson |
| 1946 | My Pal Trigger | Gabby Kendrick |
| 1946 | Badman's Territory | Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid |
| 1946 | Home in Oklahoma | Gabby Whittaker |
| 1946 | Heldorado | Gabby Whittaker |
| 1946 | Roll on Texas Moon | Gabby Whittaker |
| 1946 | Under Nevada Skies | Gabby Whittaker |
| 1946 | Rainbow Over Texas | Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker |
| 1946 | Song of Arizona | Gabby Whittaker |
| 1945 | Bells of Rosarita | Gabby Whittake |
| 1945 | Sunset in El Dorado | Gabby |
| 1945 | Utah | Gabby Whittaker |
| 1945 | Along the Navajo Trail | Gabby Whittaker |
| 1945 | Don't Fence Me In | Gabby Whittaker |
| 1945 | Man from Oklahoma | Gabby Whittaker |
| 1944 | Tall in the Saddle | Dave |
| 1944 | Lights of Old Santa Fe | Gabby Whittaker |
| 1944 | The Big Bonanza | Hap Selby |
| 1944 | Marshal of Reno | Gabby |
| 1944 | Tucson Raiders | 'Gabby' Hopkins |
| 1944 | Hidden Valley Outlaws | Gabby Hayes |
| 1944 | Mojave Firebrand | Gabby Hayes |
| 1943 | In Old Oklahoma | Despirit Dean |
| 1943 | Death Valley Manhunt | Gabby Hayes |
| 1943 | Bordertown Gun Fighters | Gabby Hayes |
| 1943 | Wagon Tracks West | Gabby |
| 1943 | Calling Wild Bill Elliott | Gabby Hayes |
| 1943 | The Man from Thunder River | Gabby Whittaker |
| 1943 | Overland Mail Robbery | Gabby |
| 1942 | Sunset Serenade | Gabby |
| 1942 | Ridin' Down the Canyon | Gabby |
| 1942 | Heart of the Golden West | Gabby |
| 1942 | Man from Cheyenne | Gabby Whittaker |
| 1942 | South of Santa Fe | Gabby Whittaker |
| 1942 | Sunset on the Desert | Gabby Whittaker |
| 1942 | Romance on the Range | Gabby |
| 1942 | Sons of the Pioneers | Gabby Whittaker |
| 1941 | Bad Man of Deadwood | Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone |
| 1941 | Sheriff of Tombstone | Gabby |
| 1941 | In Old Cheyenne | Arapaho Brown |
| 1941 | Red River Valley | Gabby Whittaker |
| 1941 | Jesse James at Bay | Sheriff Gabby Whitaker |
| 1941 | Robin Hood of the Pecos | Gabriel Gabby Hornaday |
| 1941 | Nevada City | Gabby Chapman |
| 1940 | Dark Command | Andrew 'Doc' Grunch |
| 1940 | The Carson City Kid | Gabby Whittaker |
| 1940 | Colorado | Gabby |
| 1940 | The Border Legion | Honest John Whittaker |
| 1940 | Young Bill Hickok | 'Gabby' Whitaker |
| 1940 | Young Buffalo Bill | Gabby Whittaker |
| 1940 | The Ranger and the Lady | Gabby Whittaker |
| 1940 | Wagons Westward | Hardtack |
| 1940 | Melody Ranch | Pop Laramie |
| 1939 | Renegade Trail | Windy Halliday |
| 1939 | Silver on the Sage | Windy Halliday |
| 1939 | Sunset Trail | Windy Halliday |
| 1939 | The Arizona Kid | Gabby Whittaker |
| 1939 | Southward Ho! | Gabby |
| 1939 | Man of Conquest | Lannie Upchurch |
| 1939 | Days of Jesse James | Gabby |
| 1939 | Let Freedom Ring | Pop Wilkie |
| 1939 | Saga of Death Valley | Gabby |
| 1939 | In Old Monterey | Gabby Whittaker |
| 1939 | Wall Street Cowboy | Gabby |
| 1939 | In Old Caliente | Gabby |
| 1939 | Fighting Thoroughbreds | Gramps Montrose |
| 1938 | Bar 20 Justice | Windy Halliday |
| 1938 | The Frontiersmen | Windy Halliday |
| 1938 | In Old Mexico | Windy Halliday |
| 1938 | Pride of the West | Windy Halliday |
| 1938 | Heart of Arizona | Windy Halliday |
| 1938 | Gold Is Where You Find It | Enoch |
| 1937 | Hopalong Rides Again | Windy Halliday |
| 1937 | North of the Rio Grande | Windy Halliday |
| 1937 | Texas Trail | Windy Halliday |
| 1937 | Borderland | Windy Halliday |
| 1937 | Rustlers' Valley | Windy Halliday |
| 1937 | Hills of Old Wyoming | Windy Halliday |
| 1937 | Mountain Music | Granpappy Burnside |
| 1936 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Silver Spurs | Drag Harlan |
| 1936 | The Texas Rangers | Judge Snow |
| 1936 | Three on the Trail | Windy Halliday |
| 1936 | Hopalong Cassidy Returns | Windy Halliday |
| 1936 | Heart of the West | Windy Jenkins |
| 1936 | Call of the Prairie | Shanghai McHenry |
| 1936 | Trail Dust | Windy Halliday |
| 1936 | The Lawless Nineties | Major Carter |
| 1936 | The Plainsman | Breezy |
| 1936 | Valiant Is the Word for Carrie | Bearded Man |
| 1936 | Valley of the Lawless | Grandpaw Jenkins |
| 1936 | Song of the Trail | Dan Hobson |
| 1936 | I Married a Doctor | Train Station Agent |
| 1935 | Texas Terror | Sheriff Ed Williams |
| 1935 | The Hoosier Schoolmaster | Pearson (as George Hayes) |
| 1935 | The Lost City | Butterfield |
| 1935 | The Throwback | Ford Cruze |
| 1935 | The Eagle's Brood | Spike |
| 1935 | Hop-a-long Cassidy | Uncle Ben |
| 1935 | Bar 20 Rides Again | Windy Halliday |
| 1935 | Rainbow Valley | George Hale |
| 1935 | Ladies Crave Excitement | McCloskey |
| 1935 | Tumbling Tumbleweeds | Dr. Parker |
| 1935 | Honeymoon Limited | Pinkham |
| 1935 | Justice of the Range | John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson |
| 1935 | Hitch Hike Lady | Miner |
| 1935 | Death Flies East | Wotkyns |
| 1935 | Tombstone Terror | Soupy Baxter |
| 1935 | Smokey Smith | Blaze Bart |
| 1935 | Swifty | Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes) |
| 1935 | The Outlaw Tamer | Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes) |
| 1935 | Thunder Mountain | Foley |
| 1935 | $1,000 a Minute | New Deal Watson |
| 1935 | The Headline Woman | Duffy |
| 1935 | The Farmer Takes a Wife | Lucas |
| 1934 | Randy Rides Alone | - Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute |
| 1934 | The Lucky Texan | Jake 'Grandy' Benson |
| 1934 | West of the Divide | 'Dusty' |
| 1934 | The Star Packer | Matt Matlock |
| 1934 | The Lawless Frontier | Dusty |
| 1934 | The Man from Utah | Marshal George Higgins |
| 1934 | Blue Steel | Sheriff Jake Withers |
| 1934 | Bandits of the Badlands | Sheriff Jake Withers |
| 1934 | The Shadow Gang | Matt Matlock |
| 1934 | Next Of Kin | 'Dusty' |
| 1934 | In Old Santa Fe | Cactus |
| 1934 | Monte Carlo Nights | Inspector Nick Gunby |
| 1934 | The Brand of Hate | Bill Larkins |
| 1934 | City Limits | Charlie Carter |
| 1934 | The Man from Hell | Banker Colonel Campbell |
| 1934 | Claim Jumpers | Jake Benson |
| 1934 | Mystery Liner | Joe, the Watchman |
| 1934 | Bedlam of Beards | |
| 1934 | House of Mystery | David Fells |
| 1934 | 'Neath the Arizona Skies | Matt Downing |
| 1934 | Beggars in Ermine | Joe Wilson |
| 1933 | Riders of Destiny | Charlie Denton |
| 1933 | Galloping Romeo | Grizzly |
| 1933 | The Return of Casey Jones | Timothy Shine |
| 1933 | Skyway | George Taylor |
| 1933 | Ranger's Code | Baxter (as George Hayes) |
| 1933 | The Gallant Fool | Dad Denton |
| 1933 | Trailing North | Flash Ryan |
| 1933 | Ship of Wanted Men | Crewman |
| 1933 | The Sphinx | Detective Casey |
| 1933 | Breed of the Border | Chuck Wiggins |
| 1933 | The Phantom Broadcast | Police Lieutenant |
| 1933 | Crashing Broadway | J. Talbot Thorndyke |
| 1933 | Fighting Texans | Pop Martin |
| 1933 | The Fugitive | Judge Tyler |
| 1933 | The Devil's Mate | Collins |
| 1932 | Border Devils | Squint Sanders |
| 1932 | Klondike | Tom Ross |
| 1932 | The Night Rider | Altoonie |
| 1932 | The Boiling Point | George Duncan |
| 1932 | Riders of the Desert | Hashknife Brooks |
| 1932 | A Slip at the Switch | Deputy Smoot |
| 1932 | The Man from Hell's Edges | Shamrock Cassidy |
| 1932 | Sally of the Subway | Police Lieutenant Paxton |
| 1932 | The Fighting Champ | Pete |
| 1932 | Winner Take All | Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Wild Horse Mesa | Slack |
| 1932 | Play Girl | Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Texas Buddies | Si Haller |
| 1932 | Love Me Tonight | Grocer (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Hidden Valley | Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat |
| 1932 | Broadway to Cheyenne | Walrus |
| 1932 | Self Defense | Jury Foreman |
| 1931 | The Nevada Buckaroo | Cherokee Williams |
| 1931 | Dragnet Patrol | Private Detective |
| 1931 | Cavalier of the West | Sheriff Bill Ryan |
| 1931 | Dirigible | Parade Official (uncredited) |
| 1931 | The Stolen Jools | Projectionist |
| 1931 | Big Business Girl | Hotel Clerk (uncredited) |
| 1931 | God's Country and the Man | Stingaree Kelly |
| 1931 | Oklahoma Jim | Crooked Gambler |
| 1930 | For the Defense | Ben (the waiter) |
| 1930 | Playing Around | Railroad Ticket-Seller (uncredited) |
| 1930 | Top Speed | Western Union Clerk |
| 1930 | She Who Gets Slapped | Poker Player |
| 1929 | Rainbow Man | Bill |
| 1929 | Big News | Hoffman |
| 1929 | Smiling Irish Eyes | Taxi Driver |
| 1919 | The House Without Children | Archibald Ponsonby |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Western von gestern | Gabby Whittaker (archive footage) |
| 1956 | The Dinah Shore Chevy Show | Self |
| 1956 | The Gabby Hayes Show | Narrator |
| 1950 | The Gabby Hayes Show | Himself |
| 1950 | What's My Line? | Self |