George 'Gabby' Hayes
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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
Credits
Dirigible (1931)
as Parade Official (uncredited)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
as Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)
In Old Oklahoma (1943)
as Despirit Dean
It's Howdy Doody Time: A 40-Year Celebration (1987)
as Self (archive footage)
Tall in the Saddle (1944)
as Dave
Love Me Tonight (1932)
as Grocer (uncredited)
Hop-a-long Cassidy (1935)
as Uncle Ben
The Man from Utah (1934)
as Marshal George Higgins
The Sons of the Pioneers (1942)
as Gabby Whittaker
Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
as Enoch
Heldorado (1946)
as Gabby Whittaker
Badman's Territory (1946)
as Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid
Texas Buddies (1932)
as Si Haller
Riders of the Desert (1932)
as Hashknife Brooks
Justice of the Range (1935)
as John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson
The Plainsman (1936)
as Breezy
$1,000 a Minute (1935)
as New Deal Watson
Dark Command (1940)
as Andrew 'Doc' Grunch
The Nevada Buckaroo (1931)
as Cherokee Williams
Wall Street Cowboy (1939)
as Gabby
Song of Arizona (1946)
as Gabby Whittaker
Trailing North (1933)
as Flash Ryan
Heart of the West (1936)
as Windy Jenkins
The Devil's Mate (1933)
as Collins
Heart of Arizona (1938)
as Windy Halliday
West of the Divide (1934)
as 'Dusty'
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)
as Self (archive footage)
Return of the Bad Men (1948)
as John Pettit
Wagon Tracks West (1943)
as Gabby
A Slip at the Switch (1932)
as Deputy Smoot
Trail Street (1947)
as Billy Jones
The Cariboo Trail (1950)
as Grizzly
Blue Steel (1934)
as Sheriff Jake Withers
The Texas Rangers (1936)
as Judge Snow
Along the Navajo Trail (1945)
as Gabby Whittaker
'Neath the Arizona Skies (1934)
as Matt Downing
Big Business Girl (1931)
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
The Carson City Kid (1940)
as Gabby Whittaker
House of Mystery (1934)
as David Fells
The Lucky Texan (1934)
as Jake 'Grandy' Benson
Jesse James at Bay (1941)
as Sheriff Gabby Whitaker
Saga of Death Valley (1939)
as Gabby
Riders of Destiny (1933)
as Charlie Denton
Lights of Old Santa Fe (1944)
as Gabby Whittaker
Silverspurs (1936)
as Drag Harlan
Ship of Wanted Men (1933)
as Crewman
The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935)
as Lucas
Monte Carlo Nights (1934)
as Inspector Nick Gunby
The Sphinx (1933)
as Detective Casey
The Ranger and the Lady (1940)
as Gabby Whittaker
Colorado (1940)
as Gabby
Rodeo Rocketeers (1934)
as Marshall George
The Man from Hell's Edges (1932)
as Shamrock Cassidy
Texas Terror (1935)
as Sheriff Ed Williams
Ridin' Down the Canyon (1942)
as Gabby
Randy Rides Alone (1934)
as - Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute
Claim Jumpers (1934)
as Jake Benson
Let Freedom Ring (1939)
as Pop Wilkie
The Big Bonanza (1944)
as Hap Selby
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936)
as Bearded Man
Bells of Rosarita (1945)
as Gabby Whittake
Roll on Texas Moon (1946)
as Gabby Whittaker
The Lawless Frontier (1934)
as Dusty
Man of Conquest (1939)
as Lannie Upchurch
The Border Legion (1940)
as Honest John Whittaker
Hills of Old Wyoming (1937)
as Windy Halliday
The Star Packer (1934)
as Matt Matlock
Rainbow Valley (1935)
as George Hale
The House Without Children (1919)
as Archibald Ponsonby
Robin Hood of the Pecos (1941)
as Gabriel Gabby Hornaday
El Paso (1949)
as Pesky Tees
The Shadow Gang (1934)
as Matt Matlock
Next Of Kin (1934)
as 'Dusty'
For the Defense (1930)
as Ben (the waiter)
Valley of the Lawless (1936)
as Grandpaw Jenkins
South of Santa Fe (1942)
as Gabby Whittaker
Days of Jesse James (1939)
as Gabby
Don't Fence Me In (1945)
as Gabby Whittaker
The Western: A Lost TV Special (1958)
as Self
Bad Man of Deadwood (1941)
as Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone
Breed of the Border (1933)
as Chuck Wiggins
Albuquerque (1948)
as Juke
The Eagle's Brood (1935)
as Spike
Winner Take All (1932)
as Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited)
Cavalier of the West (1931)
as Sheriff Bill Ryan
Bar 20 Rides Again (1935)
as Windy Halliday
The Outlaw Tamer (1935)
as Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes)
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1976)
as (archive footage)
The Night Rider (1932)
as Altoonie
Ladies Crave Excitement (1935)
as McCloskey
The Return of Casey Jones (1933)
as Timothy Shine
Heart of the Golden West (1942)
as Gabby
Rainbow Over Texas (1946)
as Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker
Silver on the Sage (1939)
as Windy Halliday
God's Country and the Man (1931)
as Stingaree Kelly
Pride of the West (1938)
as Windy Halliday
Call of the Prairie (1936)
as Shanghai McHenry
Wagons Westward (1940)
as Hardtack
Hopalong Rides Again (1937)
as Windy Halliday
Sunset on the Desert (1942)
as Gabby Whittaker
Sunset in El Dorado (1945)
as Gabby
Southward Ho! (1939)
as Gabby
Nevada City (1941)
as Gabby Chapman
Song of the Trail (1936)
as Dan Hobson
I Married a Doctor (1936)
as Train Station Agent
In Old Caliente (1939)
as Gabby
Bedlam of Beards (1934)
Actor
The Arizona Kid (1939)
as Gabby Whittaker
Sally of the Subway (1932)
as Police Lieutenant Paxton
Top Speed (1930)
as Western Union Clerk
The Throwback (1935)
as Ford Cruze
The Stolen Jools (1931)
as Projectionist
Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1935)
as Dr. Parker
My Pal Trigger (1946)
as Gabby Kendrick
The Man from Thunder River (1943)
as Gabby Whittaker
The Frontiersmen (1938)
as Windy Halliday
The Brand of Hate (1934)
as Bill Larkins
Rustlers' Valley (1937)
as Windy Halliday
Big News (1929)
as Hoffman
Tucson Raiders (1944)
as 'Gabby' Hopkins
In Old Santa Fe (1934)
as Cactus
Death Flies East (1935)
as Wotkyns
Calling Wild Bill Elliott (1943)
as Gabby Hayes
Broadway to Cheyenne (1932)
as Walrus
Red River Valley (1941)
as Gabby Whittaker
The Fighting Champ (1932)
as Pete
North of the Rio Grande (1937)
as Windy Halliday
The Fugitive (1933)
as Judge Tyler
The Lawless Nineties (1936)
as Major Carter
Young Buffalo Bill (1940)
as Gabby Whittaker
Three on the Trail (1936)
as Windy Halliday
Smokey Smith (1935)
as Blaze Bart
Sunset Trail (1939)
as Windy Halliday
Wild Horse Mesa (1932)
as Slack
The Headline Woman (1935)
as Duffy
Dragnet Patrol (1931)
as Private Detective
Death Valley Manhunt (1943)
as Gabby Hayes
Bordertown Gun Fighters (1943)
as Gabby Hayes
Sheriff of Tombstone (1941)
as Gabby
Under Nevada Skies (1946)
as Gabby Whittaker
Romance on the Range (1942)
as Gabby
Tombstone Terror (1935)
as Soupy Baxter
The Gallant Fool (1933)
as Dad Denton
Self Defense (1932)
as Jury Foreman
Beggars in Ermine (1934)
as Joe Wilson
Melody Ranch (1940)
as Pop Laramie
Oklahoma Jim (1931)
as Crooked Gambler
The Lost City (1935)
as Butterfield
Marshal of Reno (1944)
as Gabby
In Old Monterey (1939)
as Gabby Whittaker
Sunset Serenade (1942)
as Gabby
Home in Oklahoma (1946)
as Gabby Whittaker
The Man from Hell (1934)
as Banker Colonel Campbell
Mystery Liner (1934)
as Joe, the Watchman
Young Bill Hickok (1940)
as 'Gabby' Whitaker
The Boiling Point (1932)
as George Duncan
Borderland (1937)
as Windy Halliday
Wyoming (1947)
as Windy Gibson
Playing Around (1930)
as Railroad Ticket-Seller (uncredited)
She Who Gets Slapped (1930)
as Poker Player
Hopalong Cassidy Returns (1936)
as Windy Halliday
Galloping Romeo (1933)
as Grizzly
Texas Trail (1937)
as Windy Halliday
Ranger's Code (1933)
as Baxter (as George Hayes)
In Old Cheyenne (1941)
as Arapaho Brown
The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1935)
as Pearson (as George Hayes)
Renegade Trail (1939)
as Windy Halliday
Klondike (1932)
as Tom Ross
In Old Mexico (1938)
as Windy Halliday
Skyway (1933)
as George Taylor
Utah (1945)
as Gabby Whittaker
Fighting Texans (1933)
as Pop Martin
Crashing Broadway (1933)
as J. Talbot Thorndyke
Bar 20 Justice (1938)
as Windy Halliday
Honeymoon Limited (1935)
as Pinkham
The Untamed Breed (1948)
as Windy Lucas
Hidden Valley (1932)
as Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat
Man from Oklahoma (1945)
as Gabby Whittaker
City Limits (1934)
as Charlie Carter
Smiling Irish Eyes (1929)
as Taxi Driver
Trail Dust (1936)
as Windy Halliday
Bandits of the Badlands (1934)
as Sheriff Jake Withers
Hitch Hike Lady (1935)
as Miner
Mountain Music (1937)
as Granpappy Burnside
Swifty (1935)
as Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes)
Fighting Thoroughbreds (1939)
as Gramps Montrose
Play Girl (1932)
as Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited)
Hidden Valley Outlaws (1944)
as Gabby Hayes
Man from Cheyenne (1942)
as Gabby Whittaker
Mojave Firebrand (1944)
as Gabby Hayes
Overland Mail Robbery (1943)
as Gabby
Border Devils (1932)
as Squint Sanders
Thunder Mountain (1935)
as Foley
The Phantom Broadcast (1933)
as Police Lieutenant
Rainbow Man (1929)
as Bill
The Drifter (1934)
as Marvin Black
Vengence is Mine (1934)
as Dusty