George 'Gabby' Hayes
Known for: Acting
Born: May 6, 1885
Died: February 9, 1969
Place of birth: Wellsville, New York, USA
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.
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Filmography
197 movies · 5 TV shows, newest first
7.0
It's Howdy Doody Time: A 40-Year Celebration
1987
7.7
Western von gestern
1978
8.5
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976
6.3
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
NR
The Western: A Lost TV Special
1958
6.4
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
7.5
The Gabby Hayes Show
1956
7.0
The Gabby Hayes Show
1950
6.4
The Cariboo Trail
1950
7.0
What's My Line?
1950
6.0
El Paso
1949
6.5
The Untamed Breed
1948
6.3
Return of the Bad Men
1948
6.8
Albuquerque
1948
6.4
Wyoming
1947
6.5
Trail Street
1947
6.2
Heldorado
1946
6.6
Home in Oklahoma
1946
6.2
Roll on Texas Moon
1946
7.5
Under Nevada Skies
1946
5.5
My Pal Trigger
1946
7.3
Rainbow Over Texas
1946
6.3
Badman's Territory
1946
4.6
Song of Arizona
1946
5.8
Don't Fence Me In
1945
5.7
Sunset in El Dorado
1945
7.5
Along the Navajo Trail
1945
6.3
Man from Oklahoma
1945
6.2
Bells of Rosarita
1945
5.5
Utah
1945
6.3
The Big Bonanza
1944
5.6
Lights of Old Santa Fe
1944
6.6
Tall in the Saddle
1944
8.0
Marshal of Reno
1944
8.0
Tucson Raiders
1944
8.0
Hidden Valley Outlaws
1944
4.7
Mojave Firebrand
1944
6.2
In Old Oklahoma
1943
7.5
Death Valley Manhunt
1943
9.0
Overland Mail Robbery
1943
9.0
Wagon Tracks West
1943
9.0
Bordertown Gun Fighters
1943
7.5
The Man from Thunder River
1943
6.3
Calling Wild Bill Elliott
1943
7.5
Ridin' Down the Canyon
1942
4.2
Heart of the Golden West
1942
6.2
Sunset Serenade
1942
9.0
The Sons of the Pioneers
1942
6.5
Romance on the Range
1942
6.0
Sunset on the Desert
1942
5.0
South of Santa Fe
1942
8.0
Man from Cheyenne
1942
7.5
Red River Valley
1941
4.8
Jesse James at Bay
1941
5.3
Bad Man of Deadwood
1941
7.0
Nevada City
1941
7.2
Sheriff of Tombstone
1941
4.6
In Old Cheyenne
1941
6.0
Robin Hood of the Pecos
1941
5.0
The Border Legion
1940
5.4
Young Bill Hickok
1940
6.4
Colorado
1940
6.2
Melody Ranch
1940
7.3
The Ranger and the Lady
1940
6.2
The Carson City Kid
1940
6.5
Wagons Westward
1940
6.4
Dark Command
1940
4.6
Young Buffalo Bill
1940
5.1
Days of Jesse James
1939
6.7
Saga of Death Valley
1939
6.1
The Arizona Kid
1939
6.3
In Old Monterey
1939
5.8
Wall Street Cowboy
1939
5.0
Renegade Trail
1939
6.0
In Old Caliente
1939
5.6
Man of Conquest
1939
6.5
Silver on the Sage
1939
5.5
Southward Ho!
1939
6.3
Sunset Trail
1939
6.8
Let Freedom Ring
19397.0
Fighting Thoroughbreds
1939
5.8
The Frontiersmen
1938
6.7
In Old Mexico
1938
6.5
Pride of the West
1938
5.4
Bar 20 Justice
1938
5.5
Heart of Arizona
1938
7.0
Gold Is Where You Find It
1938
6.3
Texas Trail
1937
6.3
Hopalong Rides Again
1937
5.8
Rustlers' Valley
1937
6.7
North of the Rio Grande
1937
6.0
Mountain Music
1937
5.0
Hills of Old Wyoming
1937
7.5
Borderland
1937
5.3
Trail Dust
1936
6.5
The Plainsman
1936
6.8
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
1936
6.7
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936
6.6
The Texas Rangers
1936
5.3
I Married a Doctor
1936
6.0
Three on the Trail
1936
7.5
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936
5.8
Song of the Trail
1936
5.8
Call of the Prairie
1936
5.3
Heart of the West
1936
5.5
The Lawless Nineties
1936
10.0
Silverspurs
1936
7.5
Valley of the Lawless
1936
7.8
Hitch Hike Lady
1935
8.0
Swifty
1935
6.7
Bar 20 Rides Again
1935
5.8
The Eagle's Brood
1935
5.8
$1,000 a Minute
1935
4.8
Texas Terror
1935
7.0
The Throwback
1935
10.0
Thunder Mountain
1935
7.5
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
1935
6.5
Hop-a-long Cassidy
1935
6.2
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
5.8
Honeymoon Limited
1935
5.7
Ladies Crave Excitement
1935
9.0
Justice of the Range
1935
4.3
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
1935
4.6
The Headline Woman
1935
5.5
Tombstone Terror
1935
6.0
Smokey Smith
1935
4.9
Rainbow Valley
1935
9.0
The Outlaw Tamer
1935
5.8
The Lost City
1935
7.0
Death Flies East
1935
4.8
'Neath the Arizona Skies
1934
4.8
The Lawless Frontier
1934
NR
Vengence is Mine
1934
5.8
In Old Santa Fe
1934
5.6
The Brand of Hate
1934
5.7
The Man from Hell
1934
4.5
The Star Packer
1934NR
The Drifter
1934
5.1
Randy Rides Alone
1934
NR
Bandits of the Badlands
1934NR
The Shadow Gang
1934NR
Next Of Kin
1934
5.9
Monte Carlo Nights
1934
4.8
The Man from Utah
1934NR
Rodeo Rocketeers
1934
4.8
Blue Steel
1934
5.5
City Limits
1934
3.3
Bedlam of Beards
1934
5.1
House of Mystery
1934
4.7
Mystery Liner
1934
7.3
Beggars in Ermine
1934
5.2
West of the Divide
1934
5.0
The Lucky Texan
1934
NR
Claim Jumpers
1934
5.3
Riders of Destiny
1933
3.8
Ship of Wanted Men
1933
5.8
Skyway
1933
8.0
The Devil's Mate
1933
10.0
Ranger's Code
1933
8.0
Galloping Romeo
1933
8.0
The Fugitive
1933
9.0
Fighting Texans
1933
5.1
The Sphinx
1933
5.5
Crashing Broadway
1933
9.0
The Gallant Fool
1933
7.5
The Return of Casey Jones
1933
7.5
Trailing North
1933
5.1
The Phantom Broadcast
1933
7.0
Breed of the Border
1933
6.7
The Fighting Champ
1932
10.0
Self Defense
1932
10.0
Wild Horse Mesa
1932
7.0
Texas Buddies
1932
7.5
Hidden Valley
1932
5.0
Broadway to Cheyenne
1932
5.3
Klondike
1932
8.0
The Night Rider
1932
6.6
Love Me Tonight
1932NR
A Slip at the Switch
1932
5.4
Winner Take All
1932
7.0
The Boiling Point
1932
6.5
The Man from Hell's Edges
1932
6.0
Riders of the Desert
1932
6.0
Border Devils
1932
5.0
Play Girl
1932
8.0
Sally of the Subway
1932
6.2
Dragnet Patrol
1931
5.1
Cavalier of the West
1931
9.0
Oklahoma Jim
1931
8.0
The Nevada Buckaroo
1931
6.8
Big Business Girl
1931
8.0
God's Country and the Man
1931
5.6
The Stolen Jools
1931
5.5
Dirigible
1931
6.0
Top Speed
1930
5.7
For the Defense
1930
8.0
She Who Gets Slapped
1930
5.0
Playing Around
1930
4.5
Big News
1929
9.0
Smiling Irish Eyes
1929
10.0
Rainbow Man
1929
10.0
The House Without Children
1919