George 'Gabby' Hayes

Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: May 6, 1885
Day of Death: February 9, 1969 (84 years old)
Place of Birth: Wellsville, New York, USA
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.
1976
1975
1950
1949
1948
1947
1946

Actor Gabby Kendrick
My Pal Trigger

Actor Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid
Badman's Territory

Actor Gabby Whittaker
Home in Oklahoma

Actor Gabby Whittaker
Heldorado

Actor Gabby Whittaker
Roll on Texas Moon

Actor Gabby Whittaker
Under Nevada Skies

Actor Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker
Rainbow Over Texas

Actor Gabby Whittaker
Song of Arizona
1945
1944
1943
1942
1941
1940

Actor Andrew 'Doc' Grunch
Dark Command

Actor Gabby Whittaker
The Carson City Kid

Actor Gabby
Colorado

Actor Honest John Whittaker
The Border Legion

Actor 'Gabby' Whitaker
Young Bill Hickok

Actor Gabby Whittaker
Young Buffalo Bill

Actor Gabby Whittaker
The Ranger and the Lady

Actor Hardtack
Wagons Westward

Actor Pop Laramie
Melody Ranch
1939

Actor Windy Halliday
Renegade Trail

Actor Windy Halliday
Silver on the Sage

Actor Windy Halliday
Sunset Trail

Actor Gabby Whittaker
The Arizona Kid

Actor Gabby
Southward Ho!

Actor Lannie Upchurch
Man of Conquest

Actor Gabby
Days of Jesse James

Actor Pop Wilkie
Let Freedom Ring

Actor Gabby
Saga of Death Valley

Actor Gabby Whittaker
In Old Monterey

Actor Gabby
Wall Street Cowboy

Actor Gabby
In Old Caliente
Actor Gramps Montrose
Fighting Thoroughbreds
1938
1937
1936

Actor Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Actor Drag Harlan
Silver Spurs

Actor Judge Snow
The Texas Rangers

Actor Windy Halliday
Three on the Trail

Actor Windy Halliday
Hopalong Cassidy Returns

Actor Windy Jenkins
Heart of the West

Actor Shanghai McHenry
Call of the Prairie

Actor Windy Halliday
Trail Dust

Actor Major Carter
The Lawless Nineties

Actor Breezy
The Plainsman

Actor Bearded Man
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

Actor Grandpaw Jenkins
Valley of the Lawless

Actor Dan Hobson
Song of the Trail

Actor Train Station Agent
I Married a Doctor
1935

Actor Sheriff Ed Williams
Texas Terror

Actor Pearson (as George Hayes)
The Hoosier Schoolmaster

Actor Butterfield
The Lost City

Actor Ford Cruze
The Throwback

Actor Spike
The Eagle's Brood

Actor Uncle Ben
Hop-a-long Cassidy

Actor Windy Halliday
Bar 20 Rides Again

Actor George Hale
Rainbow Valley

Actor McCloskey
Ladies Crave Excitement

Actor Dr. Parker
Tumbling Tumbleweeds

Actor Pinkham
Honeymoon Limited

Actor John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson
Justice of the Range

Actor Miner
Hitch Hike Lady

Actor Wotkyns
Death Flies East

Actor Soupy Baxter
Tombstone Terror

Actor Blaze Bart
Smokey Smith

Actor Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes)
Swifty

Actor Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes)
The Outlaw Tamer

Actor Foley
Thunder Mountain

Actor New Deal Watson
$1,000 a Minute

Actor Duffy
The Headline Woman

Actor Lucas
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1934

Actor - Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute
Randy Rides Alone

Actor Jake 'Grandy' Benson
The Lucky Texan

Actor 'Dusty'
West of the Divide

Actor Matt Matlock
The Star Packer

Actor Dusty
The Lawless Frontier

Actor Marshal George Higgins
The Man from Utah

Actor Sheriff Jake Withers
Blue Steel

Actor Sheriff Jake Withers
Bandits of the Badlands

Actor Matt Matlock
The Shadow Gang

Actor 'Dusty'
Next Of Kin

Actor Cactus
In Old Santa Fe

Actor Inspector Nick Gunby
Monte Carlo Nights

Actor Bill Larkins
The Brand of Hate

Actor Charlie Carter
City Limits

Actor Banker Colonel Campbell
The Man from Hell

Actor Jake Benson
Claim Jumpers

Actor Joe, the Watchman
Mystery Liner

Actor
Bedlam of Beards

Actor David Fells
House of Mystery

Actor Matt Downing
'Neath the Arizona Skies

Actor Joe Wilson
Beggars in Ermine
1933

Actor Charlie Denton
Riders of Destiny

Actor Grizzly
Galloping Romeo

Actor Timothy Shine
The Return of Casey Jones

Actor George Taylor
Skyway

Actor Baxter (as George Hayes)
Ranger's Code

Actor Dad Denton
The Gallant Fool

Actor Flash Ryan
Trailing North

Actor Crewman
Ship of Wanted Men

Actor Detective Casey
The Sphinx

Actor Chuck Wiggins
Breed of the Border

Actor Police Lieutenant
The Phantom Broadcast

Actor Collins
The Devil's Mate

Actor Pop Martin
Fighting Texans

Actor J. Talbot Thorndyke
Crashing Broadway

Actor Judge Tyler
The Fugitive
1932

Actor Squint Sanders
Border Devils

Actor Tom Ross
Klondike

Actor Altoonie
The Night Rider

Actor George Duncan
The Boiling Point

Actor Hashknife Brooks
Riders of the Desert
Actor Deputy Smoot
A Slip at the Switch

Actor Shamrock Cassidy
The Man from Hell's Edges

Actor Police Lieutenant Paxton
Sally of the Subway

Actor Pete
The Fighting Champ

Actor Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited)
Winner Take All

Actor Slack
Wild Horse Mesa

Actor Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited)
Play Girl

Actor Si Haller
Texas Buddies

Actor Grocer (uncredited)
Love Me Tonight

Actor Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat
Hidden Valley

Actor Walrus
Broadway to Cheyenne

Actor Jury Foreman
Self Defense
1931

Actor Cherokee Williams
The Nevada Buckaroo

Actor Private Detective
Dragnet Patrol

Actor Sheriff Bill Ryan
Cavalier of the West

Actor Parade Official (uncredited)
Dirigible

Actor Projectionist
The Stolen Jools

Actor Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Big Business Girl

Actor Stingaree Kelly
God's Country and the Man

Actor Crooked Gambler
Oklahoma Jim