George 'Gabby' Hayes

Acting · 1.2 popularity

Age

141

Movies

197

Born: May 6, 1885 – February 9, 1969
From: 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.

Works

197 films

Love Me Tonight

19326.6

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

19367.5

Tall in the Saddle

19446.6

Blue Steel

19344.8

Trailing North

19337.5

In Old Oklahoma

19436.2

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

19756.3

Wall Street Cowboy

19395.8

Dark Command

19406.4

The Plainsman

19366.5

Texas Buddies

19327.0

'Neath the Arizona Skies

19344.8

The Stolen Jools

19315.6

Return of the Bad Men

19486.3

Dirigible

19315.5

The Cariboo Trail

19506.4

Along the Navajo Trail

19457.5

West of the Divide

19345.2

Trail Street

19476.5

Gold Is Where You Find It

19387.0

It's Howdy Doody Time: A 40-Year Celebration

19877.0

Rodeo Rocketeers

1934

The Devil's Mate

19338.0

Ladies Crave Excitement

19355.7

El Paso

19496.0

The Texas Rangers

19366.6

Song of Arizona

19464.6

The Lawless Frontier

19344.8

Let Freedom Ring

19396.8

For the Defense

19305.3

Big Business Girl

19316.8

Riders of Destiny

19335.3

Texas Terror

19354.8

The Night Rider

19328.0

The Sons of the Pioneers

19429.0

Heart of the West

19365.3

Robin Hood of the Pecos

19416.0

Randy Rides Alone

19345.0

Silverspurs

193610.0

House of Mystery

19345.1

The Western: A Lost TV Special

1958

Hop-a-long Cassidy

19356.5

The Farmer Takes a Wife

19356.2

The Headline Woman

19354.6

The Man from Utah

19344.8

Red River Valley

19417.5

Beggars in Ermine

19347.3

Claim Jumpers

1934

North of the Rio Grande

19376.7

The Untamed Breed

19486.5

The Lucky Texan

19345.0

Heart of Arizona

19385.5

Badman's Territory

19466.3

In Old Cheyenne

19414.6

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

19366.7

Justice of the Range

19359.0

Mystery Liner

19344.7

Melody Ranch

19406.2

Nevada City

19417.0

$1,000 a Minute

19355.8

Lights of Old Santa Fe

19445.6

The Star Packer

19344.5

The Big Bonanza

19446.3

Next Of Kin

1934

Heldorado

19466.2

The Eagle's Brood

19355.8

Monte Carlo Nights

19345.9

Bad Man of Deadwood

19415.3

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

19768.5

Hitch Hike Lady

19357.8

Death Flies East

19357.0

The Arizona Kid

19396.1

The Ranger and the Lady

19407.3

The Outlaw Tamer

19359.0

Sunset Serenade

19426.2

Saga of Death Valley

19396.7

Silver on the Sage

19396.5

Riders of the Desert

19326.0

The Shadow Gang

1934

In Old Caliente

19396.0

Tucson Raiders

19448.0

Rainbow Valley

19354.9

A Slip at the Switch

1932

Southward Ho!

19395.5

Marshal of Reno

19448.0

Man from Cheyenne

19428.0

Cavalier of the West

19315.1

Days of Jesse James

19395.1

Winner Take All

19325.4

Three on the Trail

19366.0

Heart of the Golden West

19424.2

Overland Mail Robbery

19439.0

The Nevada Buckaroo

19318.0

Jesse James at Bay

19414.8

Romance on the Range

19426.5

Don't Fence Me In

19455.8

Wagon Tracks West

19439.0

The Lawless Nineties

19365.5

The Border Legion

19405.0

In Old Santa Fe

19345.8

Calling Wild Bill Elliott

19436.3

Thunder Mountain

193510.0

The House Without Children

191910.0

Big News

19294.5

Young Buffalo Bill

19404.6

Valley of the Lawless

19367.5

Bar 20 Rides Again

19356.7

Home in Oklahoma

19466.6

The Man from Hell

19345.7

Wyoming

19476.4

Broadway to Cheyenne

19325.0

Mountain Music

19376.0

Hopalong Cassidy Returns

19366.8

Rustlers' Valley

19375.8

The Frontiersmen

19385.8

South of Santa Fe

19425.0

The Hoosier Schoolmaster

19354.3

Albuquerque

19486.8

Renegade Trail

19395.0

Breed of the Border

19337.0

Sunset on the Desert

19426.0

Bells of Rosarita

19456.2

Hopalong Rides Again

19376.3

The Fugitive

19338.0

Hills of Old Wyoming

19375.0

Man of Conquest

19395.6

Young Bill Hickok

19405.4

Smiling Irish Eyes

19299.0

Sheriff of Tombstone

19417.2

Fighting Thoroughbreds

19397.0

I Married a Doctor

19365.3

Bar 20 Justice

19385.4

The Man from Thunder River

19437.5

Texas Trail

19376.3

Skyway

19335.8

Oklahoma Jim

19319.0

Play Girl

19325.0

Sunset in El Dorado

19455.7

The Carson City Kid

19406.2

In Old Monterey

19396.3

Sally of the Subway

19328.0

Ridin' Down the Canyon

19427.5

Colorado

19406.4

The Lost City

19355.8

Bordertown Gun Fighters

19439.0

The Sphinx

19335.1

My Pal Trigger

19465.5

The Brand of Hate

19345.8

Roll on Texas Moon

19466.3

Death Valley Manhunt

19437.5

Tombstone Terror

19355.5

Under Nevada Skies

19467.5

Pride of the West

19386.5

Ship of Wanted Men

19333.8

Ranger's Code

193310.0

The Drifter

1934

Call of the Prairie

19365.8

Borderland

19377.5

Trail Dust

19365.3

Sunset Trail

19396.3

The Gallant Fool

19339.0

She Who Gets Slapped

19308.0

Mojave Firebrand

19444.7

Hidden Valley

19327.5

Top Speed

19306.5

Wild Horse Mesa

193210.0

God's Country and the Man

19318.0

Utah

19455.5

Playing Around

19305.0

Hidden Valley Outlaws

19448.0

Self Defense

193210.0

Song of the Trail

19365.8

Bandits of the Badlands

1934

Honeymoon Limited

19355.8

The Man from Hell's Edges

19326.5

Tumbling Tumbleweeds

19357.5

Dragnet Patrol

19316.2

City Limits

19345.5

Klondike

19325.3

The Throwback

19357.0

The Boiling Point

19327.0

In Old Mexico

19386.7

Rainbow Over Texas

19467.3

Swifty

19358.0

Rainbow Man

192910.0

Galloping Romeo

19338.0

Wagons Westward

19406.5

The Return of Casey Jones

19337.5

Smokey Smith

19356.0

Border Devils

19326.0

Bedlam of Beards

19343.3

Fighting Texans

19339.0

Vengence is Mine

1934

Man from Oklahoma

19456.3

The Phantom Broadcast

19335.1

Crashing Broadway

19335.5

The Fighting Champ

19326.7