George 'Gabby' Hayes
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.
Acting (194 movies)
My Pal Trigger
1946
Riders of Destiny
1933
Randy Rides Alone
1934
Texas Terror
1935
The Lucky Texan
1934
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936
West of the Divide
1934
Dark Command
1940
In Old Oklahoma
1943
Albuquerque
1948
Tall in the Saddle
1944
The Star Packer
1934
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
1935
The Lost City
1935
Bad Man of Deadwood
1941
Badman's Territory
1946
Colorado
1940
The Carson City Kid
1940
The Lawless Frontier
1934
Silver Spurs
1936
The Throwback
1935
The Texas Rangers
1936
The Frontiersmen
1938
The Eagle's Brood
1935
Pride of the West
1938
In Old Mexico
1938
Silver on the Sage
1939
Bar 20 Justice
1938
Renegade Trail
1939
Sunset Trail
1939
Three on the Trail
1936
Hopalong Rides Again
1937
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
1936
North of the Rio Grande
1937
Hop-a-long Cassidy
1935
Rustlers' Valley
1937
Heart of the West
1936
Call of the Prairie
1936
Bar 20 Rides Again
1935
Borderland
1937
Texas Trail
1937
Heart of Arizona
1938
Hills of Old Wyoming
1937
Trail Dust
1936
Home in Oklahoma
1946
Lights of Old Santa Fe
1944
Sheriff of Tombstone
1941
Sunset Serenade
1942
Bells of Rosarita
1945
Heldorado
1946
Roll on Texas Moon
1946
The Border Legion
1940
Young Bill Hickok
1940
Under Nevada Skies
1946
The Man from Utah
1934
Rainbow Valley
1935
Blue Steel
1934
Rainbow Man
1929
Trail Street
1947
The Lawless Nineties
1936
Sunset in El Dorado
1945
In Old Cheyenne
1941
Young Buffalo Bill
1940
Border Devils
1932
Bandits of the Badlands
1934
The Shadow Gang
1934
Next Of Kin
1934
The Arizona Kid
1939
Rainbow Over Texas
1946
The Big Bonanza
1944
Red River Valley
1941
Ridin' Down the Canyon
1942
Southward Ho!
1939
Heart of the Golden West
1942
The Ranger and the Lady
1940
Man from Cheyenne
1942
Sunset on the Desert
1942
South of Santa Fe
1942
Klondike
1932
The Night Rider
1932
The Boiling Point
1932
Galloping Romeo
1933
In Old Santa Fe
1934
The Return of Casey Jones
1933
Monte Carlo Nights
1934
Utah
1945
Return of the Bad Men
1948
Man of Conquest
1939
Marshal of Reno
1944
Jesse James at Bay
1941
Ladies Crave Excitement
1935
Days of Jesse James
1939
Tucson Raiders
1944
Song of Arizona
1946
Robin Hood of the Pecos
1941
Romance on the Range
1942
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
1935
Let Freedom Ring
1939
The Nevada Buckaroo
1931
Riders of the Desert
1932
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