George 'Gabby' Hayes
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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
Credits
Texas Buddies (1932)
as Si Haller
Dirigible (1931)
as Parade Official (uncredited)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
as Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)
Love Me Tonight (1932)
as Grocer (uncredited)
Rodeo Rocketeers (1934)
as Marshall George
In Old Oklahoma (1943)
as Despirit Dean
The Plainsman (1936)
as Breezy
Tall in the Saddle (1944)
as Dave
Blue Steel (1934)
as Sheriff Jake Withers
Along the Navajo Trail (1945)
as Gabby Whittaker
Wall Street Cowboy (1939)
as Gabby
Heart of Arizona (1938)
as Windy Halliday
Dark Command (1940)
as Andrew 'Doc' Grunch
Heart of the West (1936)
as Windy Jenkins
'Neath the Arizona Skies (1934)
as Matt Downing
Hop-a-long Cassidy (1935)
as Uncle Ben
It's Howdy Doody Time: A 40-Year Celebration (1987)
as Self (archive footage)
The Sons of the Pioneers (1942)
as Gabby Whittaker
Ladies Crave Excitement (1935)
as McCloskey
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)
as Self (archive footage)
The Devil's Mate (1933)
as Collins
The Lawless Frontier (1934)
as Dusty
Silverspurs (1936)
as Drag Harlan
A Slip at the Switch (1932)
as Deputy Smoot
Song of Arizona (1946)
as Gabby Whittaker
The Stolen Jools (1931)
as Projectionist
House of Mystery (1934)
as David Fells
Return of the Bad Men (1948)
as John Pettit
Trail Street (1947)
as Billy Jones
Sunset on the Desert (1942)
as Gabby Whittaker
Riders of the Desert (1932)
as Hashknife Brooks
Riders of Destiny (1933)
as Charlie Denton
The Nevada Buckaroo (1931)
as Cherokee Williams
Big Business Girl (1931)
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
The Lawless Nineties (1936)
as Major Carter
West of the Divide (1934)
as 'Dusty'
Next Of Kin (1934)
as 'Dusty'
Overland Mail Robbery (1943)
as Gabby
Ridin' Down the Canyon (1942)
as Gabby
Justice of the Range (1935)
as John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson
The Shadow Gang (1934)
as Matt Matlock
Hopalong Cassidy Returns (1936)
as Windy Halliday
Red River Valley (1941)
as Gabby Whittaker
Don't Fence Me In (1945)
as Gabby Whittaker
Valley of the Lawless (1936)
as Grandpaw Jenkins
El Paso (1949)
as Pesky Tees
The Star Packer (1934)
as Matt Matlock
Badman's Territory (1946)
as Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid
Randy Rides Alone (1934)
as - Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute
The Cariboo Trail (1950)
as Grizzly
Southward Ho! (1939)
as Gabby
The Man from Utah (1934)
as Marshal George Higgins
Mystery Liner (1934)
as Joe, the Watchman
The Night Rider (1932)
as Altoonie
Heart of the Golden West (1942)
as Gabby
The Lucky Texan (1934)
as Jake 'Grandy' Benson
Mountain Music (1937)
as Granpappy Burnside
The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935)
as Lucas
Hills of Old Wyoming (1937)
as Windy Halliday
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936)
as Bearded Man
Heldorado (1946)
as Gabby Whittaker
South of Santa Fe (1942)
as Gabby Whittaker
Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
as Enoch
Trailing North (1933)
as Flash Ryan
Lights of Old Santa Fe (1944)
as Gabby Whittaker
Melody Ranch (1940)
as Pop Laramie
Sunset in El Dorado (1945)
as Gabby
North of the Rio Grande (1937)
as Windy Halliday
Colorado (1940)
as Gabby
Sheriff of Tombstone (1941)
as Gabby
The Carson City Kid (1940)
as Gabby Whittaker
The Texas Rangers (1936)
as Judge Snow
The Ranger and the Lady (1940)
as Gabby Whittaker
Bar 20 Rides Again (1935)
as Windy Halliday
Beggars in Ermine (1934)
as Joe Wilson
Home in Oklahoma (1946)
as Gabby Whittaker
The Eagle's Brood (1935)
as Spike
The Frontiersmen (1938)
as Windy Halliday
Pride of the West (1938)
as Windy Halliday
Winner Take All (1932)
as Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited)
In Old Cheyenne (1941)
as Arapaho Brown
Wagon Tracks West (1943)
as Gabby
Days of Jesse James (1939)
as Gabby
Sunset Trail (1939)
as Windy Halliday
Rainbow Valley (1935)
as George Hale
Under Nevada Skies (1946)
as Gabby Whittaker
Monte Carlo Nights (1934)
as Inspector Nick Gunby
In Old Monterey (1939)
as Gabby Whittaker
Roll on Texas Moon (1946)
as Gabby Whittaker
Bar 20 Justice (1938)
as Windy Halliday
The Big Bonanza (1944)
as Hap Selby
Texas Terror (1935)
as Sheriff Ed Williams
Call of the Prairie (1936)
as Shanghai McHenry
Renegade Trail (1939)
as Windy Halliday
Sunset Serenade (1942)
as Gabby
Hidden Valley Outlaws (1944)
as Gabby Hayes
Three on the Trail (1936)
as Windy Halliday
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1976)
as (archive footage)
Nevada City (1941)
as Gabby Chapman
Bandits of the Badlands (1934)
as Sheriff Jake Withers
Saga of Death Valley (1939)
as Gabby
The Man from Thunder River (1943)
as Gabby Whittaker
The Sphinx (1933)
as Detective Casey
Albuquerque (1948)
as Juke
Borderland (1937)
as Windy Halliday
Young Buffalo Bill (1940)
as Gabby Whittaker
In Old Mexico (1938)
as Windy Halliday
Claim Jumpers (1934)
as Jake Benson
Bordertown Gun Fighters (1943)
as Gabby Hayes
Rainbow Over Texas (1946)
as Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker
The Western: A Lost TV Special (1958)
as Self
In Old Caliente (1939)
as Gabby
Tucson Raiders (1944)
as 'Gabby' Hopkins
Man from Cheyenne (1942)
as Gabby Whittaker
The House Without Children (1919)
as Archibald Ponsonby
Man of Conquest (1939)
as Lannie Upchurch
Trail Dust (1936)
as Windy Halliday
Let Freedom Ring (1939)
as Pop Wilkie
Rustlers' Valley (1937)
as Windy Halliday
Romance on the Range (1942)
as Gabby
Hitch Hike Lady (1935)
as Miner
The Outlaw Tamer (1935)
as Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes)
Bells of Rosarita (1945)
as Gabby Whittake
The Arizona Kid (1939)
as Gabby Whittaker
My Pal Trigger (1946)
as Gabby Kendrick
Cavalier of the West (1931)
as Sheriff Bill Ryan
Broadway to Cheyenne (1932)
as Walrus
The Border Legion (1940)
as Honest John Whittaker
$1,000 a Minute (1935)
as New Deal Watson
The Gallant Fool (1933)
as Dad Denton
Wyoming (1947)
as Windy Gibson
Hopalong Rides Again (1937)
as Windy Halliday
The Drifter (1934)
as Marvin Black
Man from Oklahoma (1945)
as Gabby Whittaker
Texas Trail (1937)
as Windy Halliday
Fighting Thoroughbreds (1939)
as Gramps Montrose
The Lost City (1935)
as Butterfield
Young Bill Hickok (1940)
as 'Gabby' Whitaker
I Married a Doctor (1936)
as Train Station Agent
Jesse James at Bay (1941)
as Sheriff Gabby Whitaker
In Old Santa Fe (1934)
as Cactus
Breed of the Border (1933)
as Chuck Wiggins
Klondike (1932)
as Tom Ross
Wagons Westward (1940)
as Hardtack
Marshal of Reno (1944)
as Gabby
Death Valley Manhunt (1943)
as Gabby Hayes
Big News (1929)
as Hoffman
Thunder Mountain (1935)
as Foley
Bad Man of Deadwood (1941)
as Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone
Mojave Firebrand (1944)
as Gabby Hayes
City Limits (1934)
as Charlie Carter
Calling Wild Bill Elliott (1943)
as Gabby Hayes
The Man from Hell (1934)
as Banker Colonel Campbell
The Boiling Point (1932)
as George Duncan
Wild Horse Mesa (1932)
as Slack
The Headline Woman (1935)
as Duffy
Smiling Irish Eyes (1929)
as Taxi Driver
The Untamed Breed (1948)
as Windy Lucas
Self Defense (1932)
as Jury Foreman
Dragnet Patrol (1931)
as Private Detective
Robin Hood of the Pecos (1941)
as Gabriel Gabby Hornaday
Hidden Valley (1932)
as Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat
Tombstone Terror (1935)
as Soupy Baxter
Smokey Smith (1935)
as Blaze Bart
The Return of Casey Jones (1933)
as Timothy Shine
The Throwback (1935)
as Ford Cruze
Honeymoon Limited (1935)
as Pinkham
Utah (1945)
as Gabby Whittaker
She Who Gets Slapped (1930)
as Poker Player
Vengence is Mine (1934)
as Dusty
Death Flies East (1935)
as Wotkyns
Silver on the Sage (1939)
as Windy Halliday
For the Defense (1930)
as Ben (the waiter)
God's Country and the Man (1931)
as Stingaree Kelly
Crashing Broadway (1933)
as J. Talbot Thorndyke
Ship of Wanted Men (1933)
as Crewman
The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1935)
as Pearson (as George Hayes)
Bedlam of Beards (1934)
Actor
Rainbow Man (1929)
as Bill
Skyway (1933)
as George Taylor
The Fugitive (1933)
as Judge Tyler
Play Girl (1932)
as Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited)
Fighting Texans (1933)
as Pop Martin
The Man from Hell's Edges (1932)
as Shamrock Cassidy
Playing Around (1930)
as Railroad Ticket-Seller (uncredited)
Sally of the Subway (1932)
as Police Lieutenant Paxton
Song of the Trail (1936)
as Dan Hobson
The Brand of Hate (1934)
as Bill Larkins
The Fighting Champ (1932)
as Pete
Ranger's Code (1933)
as Baxter (as George Hayes)
Swifty (1935)
as Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes)
Top Speed (1930)
as Western Union Clerk
The Phantom Broadcast (1933)
as Police Lieutenant
Border Devils (1932)
as Squint Sanders
Oklahoma Jim (1931)
as Crooked Gambler
Galloping Romeo (1933)
as Grizzly
Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1935)
as Dr. Parker