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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Wellsville, New York, USA, 1885-05-06

Died: 1969-02-09

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1919	The House Without Children	Archibald Ponsonby	0
2	1929	Rainbow Man	Bill	0
3	1929	Smiling Irish Eyes	Taxi Driver	0
4	1929	Big News	Hoffman	46
5	1930	Playing Around	Railroad Ticket-Seller (uncredited)	47
6	1930	She Who Gets Slapped	Poker Player	80
7	1930	For the Defense	Ben (the waiter)	48
8	1930	Top Speed	Western Union Clerk	60
9	1931	Dirigible	Parade Official (uncredited)	56
10	1931	The Stolen Jools	Projectionist	56
11	1931	God's Country and the Man	Stingaree Kelly	0
12	1931	Big Business Girl	Hotel Clerk (uncredited)	55
13	1931	The Nevada Buckaroo	Cherokee Williams	0
14	1931	Oklahoma Jim	Crooked Gambler	0
15	1931	Cavalier of the West	Sheriff Bill Ryan	48
16	1931	Dragnet Patrol	Private Detective	52
17	1932	Sally of the Subway	Police Lieutenant Paxton	60
18	1932	Play Girl	Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited)	52
19	1932	Border Devils	Squint Sanders	53
20	1932	Riders of the Desert	Hashknife Brooks	45
21	1932	The Man from Hell's Edges	Shamrock Cassidy	40
22	1932	The Boiling Point	George Duncan	40
23	1932	Winner Take All	Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited)	53
24	1932	A Slip at the Switch	Deputy Smoot	0
25	1932	Love Me Tonight	Grocer (uncredited)	66
26	1932	The Night Rider	Altoonie	0
27	1932	Klondike	Tom Ross	53
28	1932	Broadway to Cheyenne	Walrus	42
29	1932	Hidden Valley	Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat	60
30	1932	Texas Buddies	Si Haller	60
31	1932	Wild Horse Mesa	Slack	0
32	1932	The Fighting Champ	Pete	55
33	1932	Self Defense	Jury Foreman	0
34	1933	Breed of the Border	Chuck Wiggins	0
35	1933	The Phantom Broadcast	Police Lieutenant	48
36	1933	Trailing North	Flash Ryan	67
37	1933	The Return of Casey Jones	Timothy Shine	60
38	1933	The Gallant Fool	Dad Denton	0
39	1933	The Sphinx	Detective Casey	48
40	1933	Crashing Broadway	J. Talbot Thorndyke	40
41	1933	Fighting Texans	Pop Martin	0
42	1933	The Fugitive	Judge Tyler	0
43	1933	Galloping Romeo	Grizzly	0
44	1933	Ranger's Code	Baxter (as George Hayes)	0
45	1933	The Devil's Mate	Collins	0
46	1933	Skyway	George Taylor	52
47	1933	Ship of Wanted Men	Crewman	20
48	1933	Riders of Destiny	Charlie Denton	53
49	1934	The Lucky Texan	Jake 'Grandy' Benson	49
50	1934	Claim Jumpers	Jake Benson	0
51	1934	West of the Divide	'Dusty'	51
52	1934	Beggars in Ermine	Joe Wilson	63
53	1934	Mystery Liner	Joe, the Watchman	46
54	1934	House of Mystery	David Fells	47
55	1934	Bedlam of Beards		10
56	1934	City Limits	Charlie Carter	40
57	1934	Blue Steel	Sheriff Jake Withers	49
58	1934	The Man from Utah	Marshal George Higgins	47
59	1934	Monte Carlo Nights	Inspector Nick Gunby	59
60	1934	Bandits of the Badlands	Sheriff Jake Withers	0
61	1934	The Shadow Gang	Matt Matlock	0
62	1934	Next Of Kin	'Dusty'	0
63	1934	Randy Rides Alone	- Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute	49
64	1934	The Star Packer	Matt Matlock	44
65	1934	The Man from Hell	Banker Colonel Campbell	45
66	1934	The Brand of Hate	Bill Larkins	45
67	1934	In Old Santa Fe	Cactus	50
68	1934	The Lawless Frontier	Dusty	47
69	1934	'Neath the Arizona Skies	Matt Downing	44
70	1935	Death Flies East	Wotkyns	50
71	1935	The Lost City	Butterfield	51
72	1935	Rainbow Valley	George Hale	48
73	1935	The Outlaw Tamer	Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes)	0
74	1935	Smokey Smith	Blaze Bart	50
75	1935	Tombstone Terror	Soupy Baxter	40
76	1935	The Hoosier Schoolmaster	Pearson (as George Hayes)	42
77	1935	The Headline Woman	Duffy	50
78	1935	Justice of the Range	John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson	0
79	1935	Ladies Crave Excitement	McCloskey	45
80	1935	Honeymoon Limited	Pinkham	60
81	1935	The Farmer Takes a Wife	Lucas	61
82	1935	Hop-a-long Cassidy	Uncle Ben	60
83	1935	Tumbling Tumbleweeds	Dr. Parker	62
84	1935	Thunder Mountain	Foley	0
85	1935	The Throwback	Ford Cruze	0
86	1935	Texas Terror	Sheriff Ed Williams	47
87	1935	$1,000 a Minute	New Deal Watson	55
88	1935	The Eagle's Brood	Spike	50
89	1935	Bar 20 Rides Again	Windy Halliday	60
90	1935	Swifty	Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes)	0
91	1935	Hitch Hike Lady	Miner	68
92	1936	Valley of the Lawless	Grandpaw Jenkins	0
93	1936	Silver Spurs	Drag Harlan	0
94	1936	The Lawless Nineties	Major Carter	53
95	1936	Heart of the West	Windy Jenkins	45
96	1936	Call of the Prairie	Shanghai McHenry	50
97	1936	Song of the Trail	Dan Hobson	50
98	1936	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town	Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)	75
99	1936	Three on the Trail	Windy Halliday	50
100	1936	I Married a Doctor	Train Station Agent	47
101	1936	The Texas Rangers	Judge Snow	64
102	1936	Valiant Is the Word for Carrie	Bearded Man	63
103	1936	Hopalong Cassidy Returns	Windy Halliday	63
104	1936	The Plainsman	Breezy	63
105	1936	Trail Dust	Windy Halliday	40
106	1937	Borderland	Windy Halliday	0
107	1937	Hills of Old Wyoming	Windy Halliday	0
108	1937	Mountain Music	Granpappy Burnside	65
109	1937	North of the Rio Grande	Windy Halliday	60
110	1937	Rustlers' Valley	Windy Halliday	60
111	1937	Hopalong Rides Again	Windy Halliday	70
112	1937	Texas Trail	Windy Halliday	55
113	1938	Gold Is Where You Find It	Enoch	69
114	1938	Heart of Arizona	Windy Halliday	50
115	1938	Bar 20 Justice	Windy Halliday	50
116	1938	Pride of the West	Windy Halliday	0
117	1938	In Old Mexico	Windy Halliday	0
118	1938	The Frontiersmen	Windy Halliday	50
119	1939	Fighting Thoroughbreds	Gramps Montrose	0
120	1939	Sunset Trail	Windy Halliday	0
121	1939	Let Freedom Ring	Pop Wilkie	60
122	1939	Southward Ho!	Gabby	70
123	1939	Silver on the Sage	Windy Halliday	0
124	1939	Man of Conquest	Lannie Upchurch	52
125	1939	In Old Caliente	Gabby	50
126	1939	Renegade Trail	Windy Halliday	50
127	1939	Wall Street Cowboy	Gabby	65
128	1939	In Old Monterey	Gabby Whittaker	53
129	1939	The Arizona Kid	Gabby Whittaker	58
130	1939	Saga of Death Valley	Gabby	62
131	1939	Days of Jesse James	Gabby	55
132	1940	Young Buffalo Bill	Gabby Whittaker	36
133	1940	Dark Command	Andrew 'Doc' Grunch	64
134	1940	Wagons Westward	Hardtack	60
135	1940	The Carson City Kid	Gabby Whittaker	55
136	1940	The Ranger and the Lady	Gabby Whittaker	50
137	1940	Colorado	Gabby	57
138	1940	Melody Ranch	Pop Laramie	55
139	1940	Young Bill Hickok	'Gabby' Whitaker	43
140	1940	The Border Legion	Honest John Whittaker	57
141	1941	Robin Hood of the Pecos	Gabriel Gabby Hornaday	50
142	1941	In Old Cheyenne	Arapaho Brown	41
143	1941	Sheriff of Tombstone	Gabby	68
144	1941	Nevada City	Gabby Chapman	50
145	1941	Bad Man of Deadwood	Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone	44
146	1941	Jesse James at Bay	Sheriff Gabby Whitaker	50
147	1941	Red River Valley	Gabby Whittaker	77
148	1942	Man from Cheyenne	Gabby Whittaker	75
149	1942	South of Santa Fe	Gabby Whittaker	52
150	1942	Sunset on the Desert	Gabby Whittaker	58
151	1942	Romance on the Range	Gabby	57
152	1942	Sons of the Pioneers	Gabby Whittaker	0
153	1942	Sunset Serenade	Gabby	55
154	1942	Heart of the Golden West	Gabby	20
155	1942	Ridin' Down the Canyon	Gabby	70
156	1943	Calling Wild Bill Elliott	Gabby Hayes	60
157	1943	The Man from Thunder River	Gabby Whittaker	50
158	1943	Bordertown Gun Fighters	Gabby Hayes	0
159	1943	Wagon Tracks West	Gabby	0
160	1943	Overland Mail Robbery	Gabby	0
161	1943	Death Valley Manhunt	Gabby Hayes	50
162	1943	In Old Oklahoma	Despirit Dean	63
163	1944	Mojave Firebrand	Gabby Hayes	30
164	1944	Hidden Valley Outlaws	Gabby Hayes	0
165	1944	Tucson Raiders	'Gabby' Hopkins	0
166	1944	Marshal of Reno	Gabby	70
167	1944	Tall in the Saddle	Dave	65
168	1944	Lights of Old Santa Fe	Gabby Whittaker	52
169	1944	The Big Bonanza	Hap Selby	55
170	1945	Utah	Gabby Whittaker	50
171	1945	Bells of Rosarita	Gabby Whittake	55
172	1945	Man from Oklahoma	Gabby Whittaker	40
173	1945	Along the Navajo Trail	Gabby Whittaker	0
174	1945	Sunset in El Dorado	Gabby	42
175	1945	Don't Fence Me In	Gabby Whittaker	43
176	1946	Song of Arizona	Gabby Whittaker	48
177	1946	Badman's Territory	Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid	58
178	1946	Rainbow Over Texas	Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker	40
179	1946	My Pal Trigger	Gabby Kendrick	59
180	1946	Under Nevada Skies	Gabby Whittaker	50
181	1946	Roll on Texas Moon	Gabby Whittaker	60
182	1946	Home in Oklahoma	Gabby Whittaker	62
183	1946	Heldorado	Gabby Whittaker	55
184	1947	Trail Street	Billy Jones	64
185	1947	Wyoming	Windy Gibson	60
186	1948	Albuquerque	Juke	68
187	1948	Return of the Bad Men	John Pettit	63
188	1948	The Untamed Breed	Windy Lucas	50
189	1949	El Paso	Pesky Tees	56
190	1950	The Cariboo Trail	Grizzly	63
191	1975	Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?	Self (archive footage)	57
192	1976	Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch	(archive footage)	90

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Mystery Guest	69
2	1950	The Gabby Hayes Show	Himself	65
3	1956	The Gabby Hayes Show	Narrator	0
4	1956	The Dinah Shore Chevy Show	Self	53
5	1978	Western von gestern	Gabby Whittaker (archive footage)	75