George 'Gabby' Hayes
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.
201 acting credits
Acting · 201
What's My Line?
1950
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
Western von gestern
1978
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936
Tall in the Saddle
1944
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
Dark Command
1940
Blue Steel
1934
Melody Ranch
1940
The Cariboo Trail
1950
Dirigible
1931
Let Freedom Ring
1939
In Old Oklahoma
1943
Riders of Destiny
1933
The Carson City Kid
1940
The Plainsman
1936
The Lawless Frontier
1934
Playing Around
1930
Badman's Territory
1946
Southward Ho!
1939
The Frontiersmen
1938
Wyoming
1947
Colorado
1940
Return of the Bad Men
1948
House of Mystery
1934
The Lawless Nineties
1936
Young Buffalo Bill
1940
Heart of the Golden West
1942
Sunset Serenade
1942
Fighting Thoroughbreds
1939
Love Me Tonight
1932
Trail Street
1947
Texas Terror
1935
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
El Paso
1949
Albuquerque
1948
The Gabby Hayes Show
1956
Overland Mail Robbery
1943
The Stolen Jools
1931
Monte Carlo Nights
1934
The Texas Rangers
1936
The Lucky Texan
1934
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976
Gold Is Where You Find It
1938
The Sphinx
1933
Calling Wild Bill Elliott
1943
My Pal Trigger
1946
Jesse James at Bay
1941
Red River Valley
1941
The Headline Woman
1935
Call of the Prairie
1936
The Star Packer
1934
The Brand of Hate
1934
The Man from Utah
1934
In Old Monterey
1939
Randy Rides Alone
1934
Days of Jesse James
1939
Renegade Trail
1939
Saga of Death Valley
1939
Sunset in El Dorado
1945
South of Santa Fe
1942
Heldorado
1946
Utah
1945
Romance on the Range
1942
Top Speed
1930
In Old Caliente
1939
West of the Divide
1934
$1,000 a Minute
1935
The Eagle's Brood
1935
Skyway
1933
Borderland
1937
Sunset Trail
1939
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
1935
Wall Street Cowboy
1939
Rainbow Valley
1935
Riders of the Desert
1932
Border Devils
1932
The Border Legion
1940
The Devil's Mate
1933
Bar 20 Justice
1938
Man from Oklahoma
1945
North of the Rio Grande
1937
The Phantom Broadcast
1933
Along the Navajo Trail
1945
Crashing Broadway
1933
Ridin' Down the Canyon
1942
Robin Hood of the Pecos
1941
'Neath the Arizona Skies
1934
Mojave Firebrand
1944
Lights of Old Santa Fe
1944
Honeymoon Limited
1935
Wild Horse Mesa
1932
Mountain Music
1937
Hidden Valley
1932
Heart of Arizona
1938
Broadway to Cheyenne
1932
Hop-a-long Cassidy
1935
Wagons Westward
1940
Silver on the Sage
1939
Claim Jumpers
1934
Heart of the West
1936
Big News
1929
The Big Bonanza
1944
Roll on Texas Moon
1946
Mystery Liner
1934
Hidden Valley Outlaws
1944
Young Bill Hickok
1940
In Old Cheyenne
1941
Sunset on the Desert
1942
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
1936
Thunder Mountain
1935
Big Business Girl
1931
Bordertown Gun Fighters
1943
Cavalier of the West
1931
Trail Dust
1936
Self Defense
1932
Beggars in Ermine
1934
The Ranger and the Lady
1940
Winner Take All
1932
Pride of the West
1938
Song of Arizona
1946
Wagon Tracks West
1943
Klondike
1932
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936
Smokey Smith
1935
Hopalong Rides Again
1937
Don't Fence Me In
1945
Rainbow Man
1929
Nevada City
1941
Under Nevada Skies
1946
The Lost City
1935
The Fugitive
1933
Ship of Wanted Men
1933
The Shadow Gang
1934
Texas Trail
1937
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
1935
In Old Santa Fe
1934
The Arizona Kid
1939
Texas Buddies
1932
I Married a Doctor
1936
The Throwback
1935
For the Defense
1930
The Man from Thunder River
1943
City Limits
1934
Galloping Romeo
1933
Song of the Trail
1936
Tucson Raiders
1944
Rustlers' Valley
1937
Trailing North
1933
The Gallant Fool
1933
Sons of the Pioneers
1942
Bells of Rosarita
1945
The Return of Casey Jones
1933
The Nevada Buckaroo
1931
Home in Oklahoma
1946
Three on the Trail
1936
Play Girl
1932
Fighting Texans
1933
Silver Spurs
1936
Ladies Crave Excitement
1935
The Gabby Hayes Show
1950
Bad Man of Deadwood
1941
Breed of the Border
1933
Tombstone Terror
1935
Hills of Old Wyoming
1937
Sheriff of Tombstone
1941
The Untamed Breed
1948
Death Flies East
1935
Ranger's Code
1933
Rainbow Over Texas
1946
The Boiling Point
1932
Dragnet Patrol
1931
Oklahoma Jim
1931
Man from Cheyenne
1942
The Man from Hell
1934
Justice of the Range
1935
Bar 20 Rides Again
1935
Next Of Kin
1934
God's Country and the Man
1931
Death Valley Manhunt
1943
The Fighting Champ
1932
Smiling Irish Eyes
1929
Vengence is Mine
1934
The Western: A Lost TV Special
1958
Marshal of Reno
1944
Man of Conquest
1939
Hitch Hike Lady
1935
In Old Mexico
1938
Valley of the Lawless
1936
Bandits of the Badlands
1934
Swifty
1935
The Night Rider
1932
Rodeo Rocketeers
1934
She Who Gets Slapped
1930
The Man from Hell's Edges
1932
Sally of the Subway
1932
The Outlaw Tamer
1935
The Drifter
1934
A Slip at the Switch
1932
Bedlam of Beards
1934
The House Without Children
1919