George 'Gabby' Hayes
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1885-05-06
Day of Death
1969-02-09 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Wellsville, New York, USA
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.
Acting
(1976)
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
as (archive footage)
(1975)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
(1950)
The Cariboo Trail
as Grizzly
(1949)
El Paso
as Pesky Tees
(1948)
Albuquerque
as Juke
(1948)
Return of the Bad Men
as John Pettit
(1948)
The Untamed Breed
as Windy Lucas
(1947)
Trail Street
as Billy Jones
(1947)
Wyoming
as Windy Gibson
(1946)
My Pal Trigger
as Gabby Kendrick
(1946)
Roll on Texas Moon
as Gabby Whittaker
(1946)
Home in Oklahoma
as Gabby Whittaker
(1946)
Heldorado
as Gabby Whittaker
(1946)
Badman's Territory
as Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid
(1946)
Song of Arizona
as Gabby Whittaker
(1946)
Rainbow Over Texas
as Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker
(1946)
Under Nevada Skies
as Gabby Whittaker
(1945)
Bells of Rosarita
as Gabby Whittake
(1945)
Utah
as Gabby Whittaker
(1945)
Sunset in El Dorado
as Gabby
(1945)
Don't Fence Me In
as Gabby Whittaker
(1945)
Man from Oklahoma
as Gabby Whittaker
(1945)
Along the Navajo Trail
as Gabby Whittaker
(1944)
Lights of Old Santa Fe
as Gabby Whittaker
(1944)
Tall in the Saddle
as Dave
(1944)
Marshal of Reno
as Gabby
(1944)
Mojave Firebrand
as Gabby Hayes
(1944)
Hidden Valley Outlaws
as Gabby Hayes
(1944)
Tucson Raiders
as 'Gabby' Hopkins
(1944)
The Big Bonanza
as Hap Selby
(1943)
In Old Oklahoma
as Despirit Dean
(1943)
Wagon Tracks West
as Gabby
(1943)
Overland Mail Robbery
as Gabby
(1943)
Calling Wild Bill Elliott
as Gabby Hayes
(1943)
Bordertown Gun Fighters
as Gabby Hayes
(1943)
The Man from Thunder River
as Gabby Whittaker
(1943)
Death Valley Manhunt
as Gabby Hayes
(1942)
Sunset Serenade
as Gabby
(1942)
Ridin' Down the Canyon
as Gabby
(1942)
Sunset on the Desert
as Gabby Whittaker
(1942)
Sons of the Pioneers
as Gabby Whittaker
(1942)
South of Santa Fe
as Gabby Whittaker
(1942)
Romance on the Range
as Gabby
(1942)
Man from Cheyenne
as Gabby Whittaker
(1942)
Heart of the Golden West
as Gabby
(1941)
Bad Man of Deadwood
as Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone
(1941)
Jesse James at Bay
as Sheriff Gabby Whitaker
(1941)
Red River Valley
as Gabby Whittaker
(1941)
Sheriff of Tombstone
as Gabby
(1941)
Robin Hood of the Pecos
as Gabriel Gabby Hornaday
(1941)
Nevada City
as Gabby Chapman
(1941)
In Old Cheyenne
as Arapaho Brown
(1940)
The Carson City Kid
as Gabby Whittaker
(1940)
Colorado
as Gabby
(1940)
Dark Command
as Andrew 'Doc' Grunch
(1940)
The Ranger and the Lady
as Gabby Whittaker
(1940)
Young Buffalo Bill
as Gabby Whittaker
(1940)
Melody Ranch
as Pop Laramie
(1940)
Wagons Westward
as Hardtack
(1940)
The Border Legion
as Honest John Whittaker
(1940)
Young Bill Hickok
as 'Gabby' Whitaker
(1939)
Renegade Trail
as Windy Halliday
(1939)
Silver on the Sage
as Windy Halliday
(1939)
Saga of Death Valley
as Gabby
(1939)
In Old Caliente
as Gabby
(1939)
Patrola na hranicích Mexika
as Gabby
(1939)
Sunset Trail
as Windy Halliday
(1939)
The Arizona Kid
as Gabby Whittaker
(1939)
Man of Conquest
as Lannie Upchurch
(1939)
Wall Street Cowboy
as Gabby
(1939)
In Old Monterey
as Gabby Whittaker
(1939)
Days of Jesse James
as Gabby
(1939)
Let Freedom Ring
as Pop Wilkie
(1939)
Fighting Thoroughbreds
as Gramps Montrose
(1938)
In Old Mexico
as Windy Halliday
(1938)
Gold Is Where You Find It
as Enoch
(1938)
Pride of the West
as Windy Halliday
(1938)
Heart of Arizona
as Windy Halliday
(1938)
The Frontiersmen
as Windy Halliday
(1938)
Bar 20 Justice
as Windy Halliday
(1937)
Texas Trail
as Windy Halliday
(1937)
Hopalong Rides Again
as Windy Halliday
(1937)
Borderland
as Windy Halliday
(1937)
North of the Rio Grande
as Windy Halliday
(1937)
Hills of Old Wyoming
as Windy Halliday
(1937)
Rustlers' Valley
as Windy Halliday
(1937)
Mountain Music
as Granpappy Burnside
(1936)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
as Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)
(1936)
The Texas Rangers
as Judge Snow
(1936)
The Lawless Nineties
as Major Carter
(1936)
The Plainsman
as Breezy
(1936)
Three on the Trail
as Windy Halliday
(1936)
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
as Bearded Man
(1936)
Heart of the West
as Windy Jenkins
(1936)
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
as Windy Halliday
(1936)
I Married a Doctor
as Train Station Agent
(1936)
Trail Dust
as Windy Halliday
(1936)
Call of the Prairie
as Shanghai McHenry
(1936)
Song of the Trail
as Dan Hobson
(1936)
Silver Spurs
as Drag Harlan
(1936)
Valley of the Lawless
as Grandpaw Jenkins
(1935)
Texas Terror
as Sheriff Ed Williams
(1935)
Rainbow Valley
as George Hale
(1935)
Hop-a-long Cassidy
as Uncle Ben
(1935)
The Farmer Takes a Wife
as Lucas
(1935)
Death Flies East
as Wotkyns
(1935)
The Eagle's Brood
as Spike
(1935)
The Lost City
as Butterfield
(1935)
$1,000 a Minute
as New Deal Watson
(1935)
Bar 20 Rides Again
as Windy Halliday
(1935)
The Throwback
as Ford Cruze
(1935)
Thunder Mountain
as Foley
(1935)
Honeymoon Limited
as Pinkham
(1935)
Smokey Smith
as Blaze Bart
(1935)
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
as Dr. Parker
(1935)
The Headline Woman
as Duffy
(1935)
Ladies Crave Excitement
as McCloskey
(1935)
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
as Pearson (as George Hayes)
(1935)
Hitch Hike Lady
as Miner
(1935)
Justice of the Range
as John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson
(1935)
Tombstone Terror
as Soupy Baxter
(1935)
The Outlaw Tamer
as Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes)
(1935)
Swifty
as Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes)
(1934)
Blue Steel
as Sheriff Jake Withers
(1934)
The Man from Utah
as Marshal George Higgins
(1934)
The Lucky Texan
as Jake 'Grandy' Benson
(1934)
The Lawless Frontier
as Dusty
(1934)
The Star Packer
as Matt Matlock
(1934)
West of the Divide
as 'Dusty'
(1934)
Randy Rides Alone
as - Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute
(1934)
'Neath the Arizona Skies
as Matt Downing
(1934)
In Old Santa Fe
as Cactus
(1934)
Beggars in Ermine
as Joe Wilson
(1934)
Mystery Liner
as Joe, the Watchman
(1934)
Bandits of the Badlands
as Sheriff Jake Withers
(1934)
Monte Carlo Nights
as Inspector Nick Gunby
(1934)
The Shadow Gang
as Matt Matlock
(1934)
House of Mystery
as David Fells
(1934)
The Man from Hell
as Banker Colonel Campbell
(1934)
(1934)
Claim Jumpers
as Jake Benson
(1934)
City Limits
as Charlie Carter
(1934)
The Brand of Hate
as Bill Larkins
(1934)
Next Of Kin
as 'Dusty'
(1934)
The Drifter
as Marvin Black
(1934)
Rodeo Rocketeers
as Marshall George
(1934)
Vengence is Mine
as Dusty
(1933)
The Sphinx
as Detective Casey
(1933)
Riders of Destiny
as Charlie Denton
(1933)
The Gallant Fool
as Dad Denton
(1933)
The Devil's Mate
as Collins
(1933)
The Return of Casey Jones
as Timothy Shine
(1933)
The Phantom Broadcast
as Police Lieutenant
(1933)
Skyway
as George Taylor
(1933)
Crashing Broadway
as J. Talbot Thorndyke
(1933)
Galloping Romeo
as Grizzly
(1933)
Ship of Wanted Men
as Crewman
(1933)
Breed of the Border
as Chuck Wiggins
(1933)
The Fugitive
as Judge Tyler
(1933)
Fighting Texans
as Pop Martin
(1933)
Ranger's Code
as Baxter (as George Hayes)
(1933)
Trailing North
as Flash Ryan
(1932)
Texas Buddies
as Si Haller
(1932)
Broadway to Cheyenne
as Walrus
(1932)
Love Me Tonight
as Grocer (uncredited)
(1932)
Border Devils
as Squint Sanders
(1932)
The Night Rider
as Altoonie
(1932)
Riders of the Desert
as Hashknife Brooks
(1932)
Wild Horse Mesa
as Slack
(1932)
Self Defense
as Jury Foreman
(1932)
The Man from Hell's Edges
as Shamrock Cassidy
(1932)
Klondike
as Tom Ross
(1932)
Play Girl
as Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited)
(1932)
The Boiling Point
as George Duncan
(1932)
The Fighting Champ
as Pete
(1932)
Winner Take All
as Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited)
(1932)
A Slip at the Switch
as Deputy Smoot
(1932)
Sally of the Subway
as Police Lieutenant Paxton
(1932)
Hidden Valley
as Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat
(1931)
The Stolen Jools
as Projectionist
(1931)
Dirigible
as Parade Official (uncredited)
(1931)
The Nevada Buckaroo
as Cherokee Williams
(1931)
Big Business Girl
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
(1931)
Oklahoma Jim
as Crooked Gambler
(1931)
Cavalier of the West
as Sheriff Bill Ryan
(1931)
Dragnet Patrol
as Private Detective
(1931)
God's Country and the Man
as Stingaree Kelly
(1930)
For the Defense
as Ben (the waiter)
(1930)
Top Speed
as Western Union Clerk
(1930)
She Who Gets Slapped
as Poker Player
(1930)
Playing Around
as Railroad Ticket-Seller (uncredited)
(1929)
Smiling Irish Eyes
as Taxi Driver
(1929)
Big News
as Hoffman
(1929)
Rainbow Man
as Bill
(1919)
The House Without Children
as Archibald Ponsonby