George 'Gabby' Hayes

George 'Gabby' Hayes

  • Birthday: 1885-05-06
  • Deathday: 1969-02-09
  • Place of birth: Wellsville, New York, USA
  • Also know as: George Francis 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.

Filmography

Bad Man of Deadwood

1941

As Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone

Colorado

1940

As Gabby

Bar 20 Justice

1938

As Windy Halliday

The Frontiersmen

1938

As Windy Halliday

In Old Mexico

1938

As Windy Halliday

Pride of the West

1938

As Windy Halliday

Sunset Trail

1939

As Windy Halliday

Three on the Trail

1936

As Windy Halliday

Hopalong Cassidy Returns

1936

As Windy Halliday

Hopalong Rides Again

1937

As Windy Halliday

North of the Rio Grande

1937

As Windy Halliday

Rustlers' Valley

1937

As Windy Halliday

Hills of Old Wyoming

1937

As Windy Halliday

Heart of Arizona

1938

As Windy Halliday

Home in Oklahoma

1946

As Gabby Whittaker

Sunset Serenade

1942

As Gabby

Lights of Old Santa Fe

1944

As Gabby Whittaker

Sheriff of Tombstone

1941

As Gabby

Heldorado

1946

As Gabby Whittaker

The Border Legion

1940

As Honest John Whittaker

Young Bill Hickok

1940

As 'Gabby' Whitaker

In Old Cheyenne

1941

As Arapaho Brown

Sunset in El Dorado

1945

As Gabby

The Arizona Kid

1939

As Gabby Whittaker

Rainbow Over Texas

1946

As Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker

Red River Valley

1941

As Gabby Whittaker

South of Santa Fe

1942

As Gabby Whittaker

Sunset on the Desert

1942

As Gabby Whittaker

Marshal of Reno

1944

As Gabby

Tucson Raiders

1944

As 'Gabby' Hopkins

Robin Hood of the Pecos

1941

As Gabriel Gabby Hornaday

A Slip at the Switch

1932

As Deputy Smoot

Sons of the Pioneers

1942

As Gabby Whittaker

The Cariboo Trail

1950

As Grizzly

Saga of Death Valley

1939

As Gabby

Nevada City

1941

As Gabby Chapman

Along the Navajo Trail

1945

As Gabby Whittaker

Wall Street Cowboy

1939

As Gabby

Death Valley Manhunt

1943

As Gabby Hayes

Bordertown Gun Fighters

1943

As Gabby Hayes

The Man from Thunder River

1943

As Gabby Whittaker

Wagon Tracks West

1943

As Gabby

Jesse James at Bay

1941

As Sheriff Gabby Whitaker

Calling Wild Bill Elliott

1943

As Gabby Hayes

Overland Mail Robbery

1943

As Gabby

Hidden Valley Outlaws

1944

As Gabby Hayes

Mojave Firebrand

1944

As Gabby Hayes

Randy Rides Alone

1934

As - Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute

My Pal Trigger

1946

As Gabby Kendrick

West of the Divide

1934

As 'Dusty'

Albuquerque

1948

As Juke

The Star Packer

1934

As Matt Matlock

Badman's Territory

1946

As Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid

Renegade Trail

1939

As Windy Halliday

Silver on the Sage

1939

As Windy Halliday

Heart of the West

1936

As Windy Jenkins

Texas Trail

1937

As Windy Halliday

Borderland

1937

As Windy Halliday

Trail Dust

1936

As Windy Halliday

Bells of Rosarita

1945

As Gabby Whittake

Roll on Texas Moon

1946

As Gabby Whittaker

Under Nevada Skies

1946

As Gabby Whittaker

Rainbow Valley

1935

As George Hale

Blue Steel

1934

As Sheriff Jake Withers

Young Buffalo Bill

1940

As Gabby Whittaker

Southward Ho!

1939

As Gabby

Man from Cheyenne

1942

As Gabby Whittaker

The Ranger and the Lady

1940

As Gabby Whittaker

The Night Rider

1932

As Altoonie

Galloping Romeo

1933

As Grizzly

The Return of Casey Jones

1933

As Timothy Shine

Utah

1945

As Gabby Whittaker

Song of Arizona

1946

As Gabby Whittaker

Days of Jesse James

1939

As Gabby

Romance on the Range

1942

As Gabby

Tumbling Tumbleweeds

1935

As Dr. Parker

The Nevada Buckaroo

1931

As Cherokee Williams

Tombstone Terror

1935

As Soupy Baxter

Smokey Smith

1935

As Blaze Bart

In Old Caliente

1939

As Gabby

Swifty

1935

As Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes)

Man from Oklahoma

1945

As Gabby Whittaker

The Untamed Breed

1948

As Windy Lucas

Don't Fence Me In

1945

As Gabby Whittaker

The Gallant Fool

1933

As Dad Denton

Fighting Thoroughbreds

1939

As Gramps Montrose

Valley of the Lawless

1936

As Grandpaw Jenkins

The Fugitive

1933

As Judge Tyler

The Throwback

1935

As Ford Cruze

Silver Spurs

1936

As Drag Harlan

Border Devils

1932

As Squint Sanders

Bandits of the Badlands

1934

As Sheriff Jake Withers

The Shadow Gang

1934

As Matt Matlock

Next Of Kin

1934

As 'Dusty'

The Lucky Texan

1934

As Jake 'Grandy' Benson

Riders of Destiny

1933

As Charlie Denton

In Old Oklahoma

1943

As Despirit Dean

Tall in the Saddle

1944

As Dave

The Carson City Kid

1940

As Gabby Whittaker

The Lawless Frontier

1934

As Dusty

The Eagle's Brood

1935

As Spike

Hop-a-long Cassidy

1935

As Uncle Ben

Bar 20 Rides Again

1935

As Windy Halliday

Call of the Prairie

1936

As Shanghai McHenry

The Man from Utah

1934

As Marshal George Higgins

Trail Street

1947

As Billy Jones

The Lawless Nineties

1936

As Major Carter

The Big Bonanza

1944

As Hap Selby

Return of the Bad Men

1948

As John Pettit

Riders of the Desert

1932

As Hashknife Brooks

El Paso

1949

As Pesky Tees

In Old Monterey

1939

As Gabby Whittaker

Trailing North

1933

As Flash Ryan

Wyoming

1947

As Windy Gibson

Breed of the Border

1933

As Chuck Wiggins

Crashing Broadway

1933

As J. Talbot Thorndyke

Texas Terror

1935

As Sheriff Ed Williams

Dark Command

1940

As Andrew 'Doc' Grunch

The Lost City

1935

As Butterfield

In Old Santa Fe

1934

As Cactus

Monte Carlo Nights

1934

As Inspector Nick Gunby

The Man from Hell's Edges

1932

As Shamrock Cassidy

The Brand of Hate

1934

As Bill Larkins

Cavalier of the West

1931

As Sheriff Bill Ryan

The Man from Hell

1934

As Banker Colonel Campbell

Wagons Westward

1940

As Hardtack

The Fighting Champ

1932

As Pete

Song of the Trail

1936

As Dan Hobson

Thunder Mountain

1935

As Foley

She Who Gets Slapped

1930

As Poker Player

Texas Buddies

1932

As Si Haller

God's Country and the Man

1931

As Stingaree Kelly

Ranger's Code

1933

As Baxter (as George Hayes)

The Outlaw Tamer

1935

As Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes)

'Neath the Arizona Skies

1934

As Matt Downing

Mountain Music

1937

As Granpappy Burnside

Rainbow Man

1929

As Bill

Man of Conquest

1939

As Lannie Upchurch

Honeymoon Limited

1935

As Pinkham

Dragnet Patrol

1931

As Private Detective

Melody Ranch

1940

As Pop Laramie

Beggars in Ermine

1934

As Joe Wilson

Wild Horse Mesa

1932

As Slack

House of Mystery

1934

As David Fells

Hidden Valley

1932

As Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat

Justice of the Range

1935

As John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson

Klondike

1932

As Tom Ross

Skyway

1933

As George Taylor

Top Speed

1930

As Western Union Clerk

Sally of the Subway

1932

As Police Lieutenant Paxton

Dirigible

1931

As Parade Official (uncredited)

The Sphinx

1933

As Detective Casey

Play Girl

1932

As Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited)

The Boiling Point

1932

As George Duncan

Ladies Crave Excitement

1935

As McCloskey

City Limits

1934

As Charlie Carter

$1,000 a Minute

1935

As New Deal Watson

Ship of Wanted Men

1933

As Crewman

Broadway to Cheyenne

1932

As Walrus

Fighting Texans

1933

As Pop Martin

The Devil's Mate

1933

As Collins

The Hoosier Schoolmaster

1935

As Pearson (as George Hayes)

The Texas Rangers

1936

As Judge Snow

Mystery Liner

1934

As Joe, the Watchman

Let Freedom Ring

1939

As Pop Wilkie

Big News

1929

As Hoffman

Big Business Girl

1931

As Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

Self Defense

1932

As Jury Foreman

Playing Around

1930

As Railroad Ticket-Seller (uncredited)

Death Flies East

1935

As Wotkyns

The Plainsman

1936

As Breezy

Winner Take All

1932

As Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited)

For the Defense

1930

As Ben (the waiter)

Hitch Hike Lady

1935

As Miner

Love Me Tonight

1932

As Grocer (uncredited)

Oklahoma Jim

1931

As Crooked Gambler

The Phantom Broadcast

1933

As Police Lieutenant

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

1976

As (archive footage)

The Headline Woman

1935

As Duffy

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

1936

As Bearded Man

I Married a Doctor

1936

As Train Station Agent

The Stolen Jools

1931

As Projectionist

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1936

As Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

1975

As Self (archive footage)

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