George 'Gabby' Hayes
male
Born on May 06, 1885 (140 years old)
Passed Away on February 09, 1969
From Wellsville, New York, USA
Known for Acting
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.
Cast Credits
- 1978
- 1976
- 1975
- 1956
- 1950
- 1949
- 1948
- 1947
- 1946
My Pal Trigger
as
Gabby Kendrick
1946
Badman's Territory
as
Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid
1946
Home in Oklahoma
as
Gabby Whittaker
1946
Heldorado
as
Gabby Whittaker
1946
Roll on Texas Moon
as
Gabby Whittaker
1946
Under Nevada Skies
as
Gabby Whittaker
1946
Rainbow Over Texas
as
Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker
1946
Song of Arizona
as
Gabby Whittaker
1946
- 1945
- 1944
- 1943
- 1942
- 1941
- 1940
Dark Command
as
Andrew 'Doc' Grunch
1940
The Carson City Kid
as
Gabby Whittaker
1940
Colorado
as
Gabby
1940
The Border Legion
as
Honest John Whittaker
1940
Young Bill Hickok
as
'Gabby' Whitaker
1940
Young Buffalo Bill
as
Gabby Whittaker
1940
The Ranger and the Lady
as
Gabby Whittaker
1940
Wagons Westward
as
Hardtack
1940
Melody Ranch
as
Pop Laramie
1940
- 1939
Renegade Trail
as
Windy Halliday
1939
Silver on the Sage
as
Windy Halliday
1939
Sunset Trail
as
Windy Halliday
1939
The Arizona Kid
as
Gabby Whittaker
1939
Southward Ho!
as
Gabby
1939
Man of Conquest
as
Lannie Upchurch
1939
Days of Jesse James
as
Gabby
1939
Let Freedom Ring
as
Pop Wilkie
1939
Saga of Death Valley
as
Gabby
1939
In Old Monterey
as
Gabby Whittaker
1939
Wall Street Cowboy
as
Gabby
1939
In Old Caliente
as
Gabby
1939
- no image
Fighting Thoroughbreds
as
Gramps Montrose
1939
- 1938
- 1937
- 1936
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
as
Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)
1936
Silver Spurs
as
Drag Harlan
1936
The Texas Rangers
as
Judge Snow
1936
Three on the Trail
as
Windy Halliday
1936
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
as
Windy Halliday
1936
Heart of the West
as
Windy Jenkins
1936
Call of the Prairie
as
Shanghai McHenry
1936
Trail Dust
as
Windy Halliday
1936
The Lawless Nineties
as
Major Carter
1936
The Plainsman
as
Breezy
1936
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
as
Bearded Man
1936
Valley of the Lawless
as
Grandpaw Jenkins
1936
Song of the Trail
as
Dan Hobson
1936
I Married a Doctor
as
Train Station Agent
1936
- 1935
Texas Terror
as
Sheriff Ed Williams
1935
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
as
Pearson (as George Hayes)
1935
The Lost City
as
Butterfield
1935
The Throwback
as
Ford Cruze
1935
The Eagle's Brood
as
Spike
1935
Hop-a-long Cassidy
as
Uncle Ben
1935
Bar 20 Rides Again
as
Windy Halliday
1935
Rainbow Valley
as
George Hale
1935
Ladies Crave Excitement
as
McCloskey
1935
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
as
Dr. Parker
1935
Honeymoon Limited
as
Pinkham
1935
Justice of the Range
as
John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson
1935
Hitch Hike Lady
as
Miner
1935
Death Flies East
as
Wotkyns
1935
Tombstone Terror
as
Soupy Baxter
1935
Smokey Smith
as
Blaze Bart
1935
Swifty
as
Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes)
1935
The Outlaw Tamer
as
Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes)
1935
Thunder Mountain
as
Foley
1935
$1,000 a Minute
as
New Deal Watson
1935
The Headline Woman
as
Duffy
1935
The Farmer Takes a Wife
as
Lucas
1935
- 1934
Randy Rides Alone
as
- Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute
1934
The Lucky Texan
as
Jake 'Grandy' Benson
1934
West of the Divide
as
'Dusty'
1934
The Star Packer
as
Matt Matlock
1934
The Lawless Frontier
as
Dusty
1934
The Man from Utah
as
Marshal George Higgins
1934
Blue Steel
as
Sheriff Jake Withers
1934
Bandits of the Badlands
as
Sheriff Jake Withers
1934
The Shadow Gang
as
Matt Matlock
1934
Next Of Kin
as
'Dusty'
1934
In Old Santa Fe
as
Cactus
1934
Monte Carlo Nights
as
Inspector Nick Gunby
1934
The Brand of Hate
as
Bill Larkins
1934
City Limits
as
Charlie Carter
1934
The Man from Hell
as
Banker Colonel Campbell
1934
Claim Jumpers
as
Jake Benson
1934
Mystery Liner
as
Joe, the Watchman
1934
Bedlam of Beards
1934
House of Mystery
as
David Fells
1934
'Neath the Arizona Skies
as
Matt Downing
1934
Beggars in Ermine
as
Joe Wilson
1934
- 1933
Riders of Destiny
as
Charlie Denton
1933
Galloping Romeo
as
Grizzly
1933
The Return of Casey Jones
as
Timothy Shine
1933
Skyway
as
George Taylor
1933
Ranger's Code
as
Baxter (as George Hayes)
1933
The Gallant Fool
as
Dad Denton
1933
Trailing North
as
Flash Ryan
1933
Ship of Wanted Men
as
Crewman
1933
The Sphinx
as
Detective Casey
1933
Breed of the Border
as
Chuck Wiggins
1933
The Phantom Broadcast
as
Police Lieutenant
1933
The Devil's Mate
as
Collins
1933
Fighting Texans
as
Pop Martin
1933
Crashing Broadway
as
J. Talbot Thorndyke
1933
The Fugitive
as
Judge Tyler
1933
- 1932
Border Devils
as
Squint Sanders
1932
Klondike
as
Tom Ross
1932
The Night Rider
as
Altoonie
1932
The Boiling Point
as
George Duncan
1932
Riders of the Desert
as
Hashknife Brooks
1932
- no image
A Slip at the Switch
as
Deputy Smoot
1932
The Man from Hell's Edges
as
Shamrock Cassidy
1932
Sally of the Subway
as
Police Lieutenant Paxton
1932
The Fighting Champ
as
Pete
1932
Winner Take All
as
Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited)
1932
Wild Horse Mesa
as
Slack
1932
Play Girl
as
Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited)
1932
Texas Buddies
as
Si Haller
1932
Love Me Tonight
as
Grocer (uncredited)
1932
Hidden Valley
as
Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat
1932
Broadway to Cheyenne
as
Walrus
1932
Self Defense
as
Jury Foreman
1932
- 1931
The Nevada Buckaroo
as
Cherokee Williams
1931
Dragnet Patrol
as
Private Detective
1931
Cavalier of the West
as
Sheriff Bill Ryan
1931
Dirigible
as
Parade Official (uncredited)
1931
The Stolen Jools
as
Projectionist
1931
Big Business Girl
as
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
1931
God's Country and the Man
as
Stingaree Kelly
1931
Oklahoma Jim
as
Crooked Gambler
1931
- 1930
- 1929
- 1919
