George 'Gabby' Hayes
- Acting
- May 6, 1885 · Wellsville, New York, USA
- February 9, 1969
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.
Known for
Filmography
- It's Howdy Doody Time: A 40-Year Celebration · Self
- Western von gestern · Gabby Whittaker (archive footage)
- Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch · (archive footage)
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? · Self
- The Western: A Lost TV Special · Self
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show · Self
- The Gabby Hayes Show · Narrator
- The Gabby Hayes Show · Self
- The Cariboo Trail · Grizzly
- What's My Line? · Self
- El Paso · Pesky Tees
- The Untamed Breed · Windy Lucas
- Return of the Bad Men · John Pettit
- Albuquerque · Juke
- Wyoming · Windy Gibson
- Trail Street · Billy Jones
- Heldorado · Gabby Whittaker
- Home in Oklahoma · Gabby Whittaker
- Roll on Texas Moon · Gabby Whittaker
- Under Nevada Skies · Gabby Whittaker
- My Pal Trigger · Gabby Kendrick
- Rainbow Over Texas · Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker
- Badman's Territory · Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid
- Song of Arizona · Gabby Whittaker
- Don't Fence Me In · Gabby Whittaker
- Sunset in El Dorado · Gabby
- Along the Navajo Trail · Gabby Whittaker
- Man from Oklahoma · Gabby Whittaker
- Bells of Rosarita · Gabby Whittake
- Utah · Gabby Whittaker
- The Big Bonanza · Hap Selby
- Lights of Old Santa Fe · Gabby Whittaker
- Tall in the Saddle · Dave
- Marshal of Reno · Gabby
- Tucson Raiders · 'Gabby' Hopkins
- Hidden Valley Outlaws · Gabby Hayes
- Mojave Firebrand · Gabby Hayes
- In Old Oklahoma · Despirit Dean
- Death Valley Manhunt · Gabby Hayes
- Overland Mail Robbery · Gabby
- Wagon Tracks West · Gabby
- Bordertown Gun Fighters · Gabby Hayes
- The Man from Thunder River · Gabby Whittaker
- Calling Wild Bill Elliott · Gabby Hayes
- Ridin' Down the Canyon · Gabby
- Heart of the Golden West · Gabby
- Sunset Serenade · Gabby
- The Sons of the Pioneers · Gabby Whittaker
- Romance on the Range · Gabby
- Sunset on the Desert · Gabby Whittaker
- South of Santa Fe · Gabby Whittaker
- Man from Cheyenne · Gabby Whittaker
- Red River Valley · Gabby Whittaker
- Jesse James at Bay · Sheriff Gabby Whitaker
- Bad Man of Deadwood · Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone
- Nevada City · Gabby Chapman
- Sheriff of Tombstone · Gabby
- In Old Cheyenne · Arapaho Brown
- Robin Hood of the Pecos · Gabriel Gabby Hornaday
- The Border Legion · Honest John Whittaker
- Young Bill Hickok · 'Gabby' Whitaker
- Colorado · Gabby
- Melody Ranch · Pop Laramie
- The Ranger and the Lady · Gabby Whittaker
- The Carson City Kid · Gabby Whittaker
- Wagons Westward · Hardtack
- Dark Command · Andrew 'Doc' Grunch
- Young Buffalo Bill · Gabby Whittaker
- Days of Jesse James · Gabby
- Saga of Death Valley · Gabby
- The Arizona Kid · Gabby Whittaker
- In Old Monterey · Gabby Whittaker
- Wall Street Cowboy · Gabby
- Renegade Trail · Windy Halliday
- In Old Caliente · Gabby
- Man of Conquest · Lannie Upchurch
- Silver on the Sage · Windy Halliday
- Southward Ho! · Gabby
- Sunset Trail · Windy Halliday
- Let Freedom Ring · Pop Wilkie