
George 'Gabby' Hayes
Born: 1885-05-06
Place of Birth: Wellsville, New York, USA
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

God's Country and the Man

Riders of Destiny

Hopalong Cassidy Returns

She Who Gets Slapped

For the Defense

Song of the Trail

Silver on the Sage

The Man from Hell

Tucson Raiders

Self Defense

El Paso

Mystery Liner

Trail Street

Jesse James at Bay

The Brand of Hate

Top Speed

Lights of Old Santa Fe

Southward Ho!

Home in Oklahoma

Tumbling Tumbleweeds

Galloping Romeo

Renegade Trail

The Frontiersmen

Albuquerque

Man from Oklahoma

City Limits

Sunset Trail

Dragnet Patrol

Fighting Texans

Playing Around

Hidden Valley

The Nevada Buckaroo

Borderland

Along the Navajo Trail

Oklahoma Jim

Let Freedom Ring

The Sphinx

Border Devils

Mountain Music

Blue Steel

Texas Trail

Klondike

Dirigible

Heldorado

Nevada City

Colorado

Swifty

Beggars in Ermine

Wyoming

Rustlers' Valley

Trail Dust

Mojave Firebrand

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

The Texas Rangers

Wagons Westward

Heart of the Golden West

Young Buffalo Bill

Tall in the Saddle

Sally of the Subway

The Phantom Broadcast

Rainbow Man

'Neath the Arizona Skies

Claim Jumpers

Pride of the West

Love Me Tonight

Justice of the Range

Honeymoon Limited

Big Business Girl

Next Of Kin

Hidden Valley Outlaws

Young Bill Hickok

Red River Valley

Smiling Irish Eyes

Trailing North

The Hoosier Schoolmaster

I Married a Doctor

Call of the Prairie

The Cariboo Trail

The Night Rider

Play Girl

Robin Hood of the Pecos

West of the Divide

Ladies Crave Excitement

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

The Arizona Kid

Sunset in El Dorado

The Gallant Fool

Man from Cheyenne

The Star Packer

Sons of the Pioneers

Wall Street Cowboy

Riders of the Desert

Overland Mail Robbery

$1,000 a Minute

Dark Command

Winner Take All

Wild Horse Mesa

Sunset on the Desert

In Old Caliente

Heart of Arizona

In Old Oklahoma

The Boiling Point

Rainbow Valley

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

North of the Rio Grande

Texas Buddies

Heart of the West

In Old Cheyenne

In Old Monterey

The Untamed Breed

The Devil's Mate

Cavalier of the West

The Plainsman

Song of Arizona

Wagon Tracks West

The Big Bonanza

The Lucky Texan

The Lost City

House of Mystery

The Outlaw Tamer

Man of Conquest

The Stolen Jools

Badman's Territory

Romance on the Range

Ridin' Down the Canyon

Saga of Death Valley

Utah

In Old Mexico

Rodeo Rocketeers

Gold Is Where You Find It

South of Santa Fe

The Farmer Takes a Wife

Marshal of Reno

Texas Terror

Calling Wild Bill Elliott

Valley of the Lawless

Hop-a-long Cassidy

Roll on Texas Moon

Hopalong Rides Again

The Carson City Kid

Randy Rides Alone

Sheriff of Tombstone

Bedlam of Beards

Rainbow Over Texas

Bar 20 Justice

Skyway

The Lawless Frontier

Under Nevada Skies

Monte Carlo Nights

Three on the Trail

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

The Man from Utah

Bad Man of Deadwood

Return of the Bad Men

The House Without Children

My Pal Trigger

Days of Jesse James

Smokey Smith

The Shadow Gang

Bells of Rosarita

Melody Ranch

Sunset Serenade

Death Flies East

Hitch Hike Lady

Don't Fence Me In

Thunder Mountain

In Old Santa Fe

The Ranger and the Lady

The Border Legion

Breed of the Border

Bar 20 Rides Again

Big News

Silver Spurs

The Throwback

The Man from Thunder River

Crashing Broadway

The Man from Hell's Edges

The Lawless Nineties

Death Valley Manhunt

Bordertown Gun Fighters

Tombstone Terror

Vengence is Mine

The Fighting Champ

Broadway to Cheyenne

The Return of Casey Jones

The Eagle's Brood

Ranger's Code

The Western: A Lost TV Special

The Headline Woman

The Fugitive

Hills of Old Wyoming

Ship of Wanted Men

Bandits of the Badlands
