George 'Gabby' Hayes

Also Known As: George Francis Hayes, George Hayes, George Francis "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.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Wellsville, New York, USA

Birthday: May 06, 1885

Deathday: February 09, 1969

Adult: No

Gender: Male

Popularity:

2.41%

Known For:

My Pal Trigger
Riders of Destiny
Randy Rides Alone
Texas Terror
The Lucky Texan
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
West of the Divide
Dark Command
In Old Oklahoma
Albuquerque
Tall in the Saddle
The Star Packer
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
The Lost City
Bad Man of Deadwood
Badman's Territory
The Carson City Kid
Colorado
The Lawless Frontier
The Throwback
Silver Spurs
The Texas Rangers
In Old Mexico
Pride of the West
Bar 20 Justice
The Eagle's Brood
Renegade Trail
The Frontiersmen
Silver on the Sage
Sunset Trail
Three on the Trail
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
Hopalong Rides Again
Hop-a-long Cassidy
North of the Rio Grande
Texas Trail
Heart of the West
Bar 20 Rides Again
Borderland
Call of the Prairie
Rustlers' Valley
Trail Dust
Heart of Arizona
Hills of Old Wyoming
Home in Oklahoma
Sunset Serenade
Sheriff of Tombstone
Lights of Old Santa Fe
Bells of Rosarita
Heldorado
Roll on Texas Moon
The Border Legion
Under Nevada Skies
Young Bill Hickok
The Man from Utah
Rainbow Valley
Blue Steel
Rainbow Man
Trail Street
The Lawless Nineties
In Old Cheyenne
Young Buffalo Bill
Sunset in El Dorado
Border Devils
Bandits of the Badlands
The Shadow Gang
Next Of Kin
The Arizona Kid
Rainbow Over Texas
The Big Bonanza
Red River Valley
Ridin' Down the Canyon
Southward Ho!
Heart of the Golden West
The Ranger and the Lady
Man from Cheyenne
South of Santa Fe
Sunset on the Desert
Klondike
The Night Rider
The Boiling Point
Galloping Romeo
The Return of Casey Jones
In Old Santa Fe
Monte Carlo Nights
Utah
Return of the Bad Men
Man of Conquest
Marshal of Reno
Jesse James at Bay
Ladies Crave Excitement
Tucson Raiders
Days of Jesse James
Song of Arizona
Robin Hood of the Pecos
Romance on the Range
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Let Freedom Ring
The Nevada Buckaroo
Riders of the Desert
Honeymoon Limited
Sons of the Pioneers
El Paso
A Slip at the Switch
The Cariboo Trail
For the Defense
Saga of Death Valley
Dragnet Patrol
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
In Old Monterey
Nevada City
The Man from Hell's Edges
The Brand of Hate
Gold Is Where You Find It
Justice of the Range
Hitch Hike Lady
Cavalier of the West
Playing Around
Death Flies East
Skyway
The Plainsman
Big News
Top Speed
Tombstone Terror
Along the Navajo Trail
Wall Street Cowboy
Smokey Smith
City Limits
Bordertown Gun Fighters
Death Valley Manhunt
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Hidden Valley Outlaws
The Man from Hell
In Old Caliente
Sally of the Subway
Dirigible
Ranger's Code
The Gallant Fool
Swifty
Don't Fence Me In
Wagons Westward
Trailing North
Valley of the Lawless
The Outlaw Tamer
Man from Oklahoma
Wagon Tracks West
Thunder Mountain
The Untamed Breed
The Fighting Champ
$1,000 a Minute
Calling Wild Bill Elliott
Fighting Thoroughbreds
Ship of Wanted Men
Song of the Trail
The Stolen Jools
Claim Jumpers
I Married a Doctor
Big Business Girl
Melody Ranch
Winner Take All
Mystery Liner
The Man from Thunder River
The Sphinx
She Who Gets Slapped
Overland Mail Robbery
Mojave Firebrand
Wild Horse Mesa
Wyoming
Breed of the Border
Play Girl
Texas Buddies
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Love Me Tonight
Bedlam of Beards
House of Mystery
'Neath the Arizona Skies
Mountain Music
God's Country and the Man
The Headline Woman
Hidden Valley
Oklahoma Jim
Broadway to Cheyenne
Self Defense
The Phantom Broadcast
The Devil's Mate
Fighting Texans
Crashing Broadway
The Fugitive
Beggars in Ermine
The House Without Children
Smiling Irish Eyes
The Farmer Takes a Wife