George 'Gabby' 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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1885-05-06
Place of birth
Wellsville, New York, USA
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Cast
My Pal Trigger
1946
5.40
Riders of Destiny
1933
5.15
Randy Rides Alone
1934
4.84
Texas Terror
1935
4.60
The Lucky Texan
1934
4.88
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936
7.54
West of the Divide
1934
5.02
Dark Command
1940
6.30
In Old Oklahoma
1943
6.24
Albuquerque
1948
6.80
Tall in the Saddle
1944
6.50
The Star Packer
1934
4.40
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
1935
3.60
The Lost City
1935
5.10
Bad Man of Deadwood
1941
4.40
Badman's Territory
1946
5.70
Colorado
1940
5.50
The Carson City Kid
1940
5.50
The Lawless Frontier
1934
4.60
Silver Spurs
1936
0.00
The Throwback
1935
0.00
The Texas Rangers
1936
6.30
The Frontiersmen
1938
4.00
The Eagle's Brood
1935
4.70
Pride of the West
1938
4.00
In Old Mexico
1938
3.00
Silver on the Sage
1939
3.00
Bar 20 Justice
1938
4.70
Renegade Trail
1939
4.00
Sunset Trail
1939
5.00
Three on the Trail
1936
4.50
Hopalong Rides Again
1937
5.50
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
1936
6.00
North of the Rio Grande
1937
5.50
Hop-a-long Cassidy
1935
5.30
Rustlers' Valley
1937
5.30
Heart of the West
1936
4.00
Call of the Prairie
1936
4.70
Bar 20 Rides Again
1935
5.00
Borderland
1937
5.00
Texas Trail
1937
5.00
Heart of Arizona
1938
5.00
Hills of Old Wyoming
1937
3.00
Trail Dust
1936
4.00
Home in Oklahoma
1946
6.20
Lights of Old Santa Fe
1944
5.20
Sheriff of Tombstone
1941
6.80
Sunset Serenade
1942
5.50
Bells of Rosarita
1945
5.40
Heldorado
1946
5.60
Roll on Texas Moon
1946
6.00
The Border Legion
1940
4.40
Young Bill Hickok
1940
4.50
Under Nevada Skies
1946
5.00
The Man from Utah
1934
4.61
Rainbow Valley
1935
4.70
Blue Steel
1934
4.71
Rainbow Man
1929
0.00
Trail Street
1947
6.40
The Lawless Nineties
1936
5.20
Sunset in El Dorado
1945
4.20
In Old Cheyenne
1941
4.10
Young Buffalo Bill
1940
3.80
Border Devils
1932
5.30
Bandits of the Badlands
1934
0.00
The Shadow Gang
1934
0.00
Next Of Kin
1934
0.00
The Arizona Kid
1939
5.80
Rainbow Over Texas
1946
4.00
The Big Bonanza
1944
5.50
Red River Valley
1941
7.70
Ridin' Down the Canyon
1942
7.00
Southward Ho!
1939
4.00
Heart of the Golden West
1942
1.50
The Ranger and the Lady
1940
5.00
Man from Cheyenne
1942
7.50
Sunset on the Desert
1942
5.80
South of Santa Fe
1942
4.50
Klondike
1932
4.70
The Night Rider
1932
0.00
The Boiling Point
1932
4.00
Galloping Romeo
1933
0.00
In Old Santa Fe
1934
5.00
The Return of Casey Jones
1933
6.00
Monte Carlo Nights
1934
5.90
Utah
1945
5.00
Return of the Bad Men
1948
6.30
Man of Conquest
1939
5.00
Marshal of Reno
1944
7.00
Jesse James at Bay
1941
4.20
Ladies Crave Excitement
1935
4.50
Days of Jesse James
1939
4.70
Tucson Raiders
1944
0.00
Song of Arizona
1946
4.30
Robin Hood of the Pecos
1941
5.00
Romance on the Range
1942
5.70
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
1935
6.20
Let Freedom Ring
1939
6.00
The Nevada Buckaroo
1931
0.00
Riders of the Desert
1932
4.50
Honeymoon Limited
1935
5.33
Sons of the Pioneers
1942
0.00
El Paso
1949
5.70
A Slip at the Switch
1932
0.00
The Cariboo Trail
1950
6.40
Saga of Death Valley
1939
6.20
For the Defense
1930
4.80
Dragnet Patrol
1931
5.20
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976
9.00
In Old Monterey
1939
5.30
Nevada City
1941
5.00
The Man from Hell's Edges
1932
4.00
The Brand of Hate
1934
4.50
Gold Is Where You Find It
1938
6.90
Justice of the Range
1935
0.00
Hitch Hike Lady
1935
6.80
Cavalier of the West
1931
4.80
Playing Around
1930
4.29
Death Flies East
1935
5.00
Skyway
1933
5.20
The Plainsman
1936
6.30
Big News
1929
4.20
Top Speed
1930
6.00
Tombstone Terror
1935
4.00
Along the Navajo Trail
1945
0.00
Wall Street Cowboy
1939
4.70
Smokey Smith
1935
5.00
City Limits
1934
4.00
Death Valley Manhunt
1943
5.00
Bordertown Gun Fighters
1943
0.00
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936
6.42
Hidden Valley Outlaws
1944
0.00
The Man from Hell
1934
4.50
In Old Caliente
1939
5.00
Sally of the Subway
1932
6.00
Dirigible
1931
5.00
Ranger's Code
1933
0.00
The Gallant Fool
1933
0.00
Swifty
1935
0.00
Don't Fence Me In
1945
4.30
Wagons Westward
1940
6.00
Trailing North
1933
6.70
Valley of the Lawless
1936
0.00
The Outlaw Tamer
1935
0.00
Man from Oklahoma
1945
4.00
Wagon Tracks West
1943
0.00
Thunder Mountain
1935
0.00
The Untamed Breed
1948
5.00
The Fighting Champ
1932
5.50
$1,000 a Minute
1935
5.80
Calling Wild Bill Elliott
1943
6.00
Fighting Thoroughbreds
1939
0.00
Ship of Wanted Men
1933
1.70
Song of the Trail
1936
5.00
The Stolen Jools
1931
5.60
Claim Jumpers
1934
0.00
I Married a Doctor
1936
4.70
Big Business Girl
1931
6.00
Melody Ranch
1940
5.80
Winner Take All
1932
4.71
Mystery Liner
1934
4.11
The Man from Thunder River
1943
5.00
The Sphinx
1933
4.60
She Who Gets Slapped
1930
8.00
Overland Mail Robbery
1943
0.00
Mojave Firebrand
1944
3.00
Wild Horse Mesa
1932
0.00
Wyoming
1947
6.00
Breed of the Border
1933
0.00
Play Girl
1932
4.50
Texas Buddies
1932
6.00
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
6.10
Love Me Tonight
1932
6.55
Bedlam of Beards
1934
1.00
House of Mystery
1934
4.70
'Neath the Arizona Skies
1934
4.50
Mountain Music
1937
5.33
God's Country and the Man
1931
0.00
The Headline Woman
1935
4.00
Hidden Valley
1932
6.00
Oklahoma Jim
1931
0.00
Self Defense
1932
0.00
Broadway to Cheyenne
1932
4.33
The Phantom Broadcast
1933
4.30
Fighting Texans
1933
0.00
Crashing Broadway
1933
4.00
The Fugitive
1933
0.00
The Devil's Mate
1933
0.00
Beggars in Ermine
1934
6.30
The House Without Children
1919
0.00
Smiling Irish Eyes
1929
0.00
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
6.10
Rodeo Rocketeers
1934
0.00
Vengence is Mine
1934
0.00
The Drifter
1934
0.00
The Western: A Lost TV Special
1958
0.00