Known For
Acting
Born
May 06, 1885
Died
Feb 09, 1969
Place of Birth
Wellsville, New York, USA
Credits
202 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
It's Howdy Doody Time: A 40-Year Celebration
Self (archive footage)
Western von gestern
Gabby Whittaker (archive footage)
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
(archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
The Western: A Lost TV Special
Self
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
The Gabby Hayes Show
Narrator
The Gabby Hayes Show
Himself
The Cariboo Trail
Grizzly
What's My Line?
Self
El Paso
Pesky Tees
The Untamed Breed
Windy Lucas
Return of the Bad Men
John Pettit
Albuquerque
Juke
Wyoming
Windy Gibson
Trail Street
Billy Jones
Heldorado
Gabby Whittaker
Home in Oklahoma
Gabby Whittaker
Roll on Texas Moon
Gabby Whittaker
Under Nevada Skies
Gabby Whittaker
My Pal Trigger
Gabby Kendrick
Rainbow Over Texas
Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker
Badman's Territory
Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid
Song of Arizona
Gabby Whittaker
Don't Fence Me In
Gabby Whittaker
Sunset in El Dorado
Gabby
Along the Navajo Trail
Gabby Whittaker
Man from Oklahoma
Gabby Whittaker
Bells of Rosarita
Gabby Whittake
Utah
Gabby Whittaker
The Big Bonanza
Hap Selby
Lights of Old Santa Fe
Gabby Whittaker
Tall in the Saddle
Dave
Marshal of Reno
Gabby
Tucson Raiders
'Gabby' Hopkins
Hidden Valley Outlaws
Gabby Hayes
Mojave Firebrand
Gabby Hayes
In Old Oklahoma
Despirit Dean
Death Valley Manhunt
Gabby Hayes
Overland Mail Robbery
Gabby
Wagon Tracks West
Gabby
Bordertown Gun Fighters
Gabby Hayes
The Man from Thunder River
Gabby Whittaker
Calling Wild Bill Elliott
Gabby Hayes
Ridin' Down the Canyon
Gabby
Heart of the Golden West
Gabby
Sunset Serenade
Gabby
The Sons of the Pioneers
Gabby Whittaker
Romance on the Range
Gabby
Sunset on the Desert
Gabby Whittaker