George 'Gabby' Hayes
Age: N/A | From: Wellsville, New York, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: George Francis Hayes , George Hayes , George Francis "Gabby" Hayes
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Wellsville, New York, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 164
TV Involvements: 4
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
What's My Line?
(1950) Self - Mystery Guest
Western von gestern
(1978) Gabby Whittaker (archive footage)
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
(1956) Self
Tall in the Saddle
(1944) Dave
Blue Steel
(1934) Sheriff Jake Withers
'Neath the Arizona Skies
(1934) Matt Downing
Dark Command
(1940) Andrew 'Doc' Grunch
The Man From Utah
(1934) Marshal George HigginsActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Gabby Whittaker (archive footage) | |
| 1976 | (archive footage) | |
| 1975 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1956 | Self | |
| Narrator | ||
| 1950 | Himself | |
| Grizzly | ||
| Self - Mystery Guest | ||
| 1949 | Pesky Tees | |
| 1948 | Windy Lucas | |
| John Pettit | ||
| Juke | ||
| 1947 | Windy Gibson | |
| Billy Jones | ||
| 1946 | Gabby Whittaker | |
| Gabby Whittaker | ||
| Gabby Whittaker | ||
| Gabby Whittaker | ||
| Gabby Kendrick | ||
| Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker | ||
| Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid | ||
| Gabby Whittaker | ||
| 1945 | Gabby Whittaker | |
| Gabby | ||
| Gabby Whittaker | ||
| Gabby Whittaker | ||
| Gabby Whittake | ||
| Gabby Whittaker | ||
| 1944 | Hap Selby | |
| Gabby Whittaker | ||
| Dave | ||
| Gabby | ||
| 'Gabby' Hopkins | ||
| Gabby Hayes | ||
| Gabby Hayes | ||
| 1943 | Despirit Dean | |
| Gabby Hayes | ||
| Gabby | ||
| Gabby | ||
| Gabby Hayes | ||
| Gabby Whittaker | ||
| Gabby Hayes | ||
| 1942 | Gabby | |
| Gabby | ||
| Gabby | ||
| Gabby Whittaker | ||
| Gabby | ||
| Gabby Whittaker | ||
| Gabby Whittaker | ||
| Gabby Whittaker | ||
| 1941 | Gabby Whittaker | |
| Sheriff Gabby Whitaker | ||
| Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone | ||
| Gabby Chapman | ||
| Gabby | ||
| Arapaho Brown | ||
| Gabriel Gabby Hornaday | ||
| 1940 | Honest John Whittaker | |
| 'Gabby' Whitaker | ||
| Gabby | ||
| Pop Laramie | ||
| Gabby Whittaker | ||
| Gabby Whittaker | ||
| Hardtack | ||
| Andrew 'Doc' Grunch | ||
| Gabby Whittaker | ||
| 1939 | Gabby | |
| Gabby | ||
| Gabby Whittaker | ||
| Gabby Whittaker | ||
| Gabby | ||
| Windy Halliday | ||
| Gabby | ||
| Lannie Upchurch | ||
| Windy Halliday | ||
| Gabby | ||
| Windy Halliday | ||
| Pop Wilkie | ||
| Gramps Montrose | ||
| 1938 | Windy Halliday | |
| Windy Halliday | ||
| Windy Halliday | ||
| Windy Halliday | ||
| Windy Halliday | ||
| Enoch | ||
| 1937 | Windy Halliday | |
| Windy Halliday | ||
| Windy Halliday | ||
| Windy Halliday | ||
| Granpappy Burnside | ||
| Windy Halliday | ||
| Windy Halliday | ||
| 1936 | Windy Halliday | |
| Breezy | ||
| Windy Halliday | ||
| Bearded Man | ||
| Judge Snow | ||
| Windy Halliday | ||
| Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited) | ||
| Dan Hobson | ||
| Shanghai McHenry | ||
| Windy Jenkins | ||
| Major Carter | ||
| Drag Harlan | ||
| Grandpaw Jenkins | ||
| Train Station Agent | ||
| 1935 | Miner | |
| Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes) | ||
| Windy Halliday | ||
| Spike | ||
| New Deal Watson | ||
| Sheriff Ed Williams | ||
| Ford Cruze | ||
| Foley | ||
| Dr. Parker | ||
| Uncle Ben | ||
| Pinkham | ||
| McCloskey | ||
| John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson | ||
| Pearson (as George Hayes) | ||
| Duffy | ||
| Soupy Baxter | ||
| Blaze Bart | ||
| George Hale | ||
| Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes) | ||
| Butterfield | ||
| Wotkyns | ||
| 1934 | Matt Downing | |
| Dusty | ||
| Cactus | ||
| Bill Larkins | ||
| Banker Colonel Campbell | ||
| Matt Matlock | ||
| - Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute | ||
| Sheriff Jake Withers | ||
| Matt Matlock | ||
| 'Dusty' | ||
| Inspector Nick Gunby | ||
| Marshal George Higgins | ||
| Sheriff Jake Withers | ||
| Charlie Carter | ||
| N/A | ||
| David Fells | ||
| Joe, the Watchman | ||
| Joe Wilson | ||
| 'Dusty' | ||
| Jake 'Grandy' Benson | ||
| 1933 | Charlie Denton | |
| Crewman | ||
| George Taylor | ||
| Collins | ||
| Baxter (as George Hayes) | ||
| Grizzly | ||
| Judge Tyler | ||
| Pop Martin | ||
| J. Talbot Thorndyke | ||
| Detective Casey | ||
| Dad Denton | ||
| Timothy Shine | ||
| Flash Ryan | ||
| Police Lieutenant | ||
| Chuck Wiggins | ||
| 1932 | Pete | |
| Jury Foreman | ||
| Slack | ||
| Si Haller | ||
| Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat | ||
| Walrus | ||
| Tom Ross | ||
| Altoonie | ||
| Grocer (uncredited) | ||
| Deputy Smoot | ||
| Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited) | ||
| George Duncan | ||
| Shamrock Cassidy | ||
| Hashknife Brooks | ||
| Squint Sanders | ||
| Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited) | ||
| Police Lieutenant Paxton | ||
| 1931 | Private Detective | |
| Sheriff Bill Ryan | ||
| Crooked Gambler | ||
| Cherokee Williams | ||
| Hotel Clerk (uncredited) | ||
| Stingaree Kelly | ||
| Projectionist | ||
| Parade Official (uncredited) | ||
| 1930 | Western Union Clerk | |
| Ben (the waiter) | ||
| Poker Player | ||
| Railroad Ticket-Seller (uncredited) | ||
| 1929 | Hoffman | |
| Bill | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
