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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.
Acted in 194
1970s
- 1978
- 1976
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
(archive footage)
1950s
- 1950
1940s
- 1949
- 1948
The Untamed Breed
Windy Lucas
Return of the Bad Men
John Pettit
- 1947
Wyoming
Windy Gibson
- 1946
Heldorado
Gabby Whittaker
Home in Oklahoma
Gabby Whittaker
Roll on Texas Moon
Gabby Whittaker
Rainbow Over Texas
Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker
- 1945
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
- 1944
The Big Bonanza
Hap Selby
Marshal of Reno
Gabby
Tucson Raiders
'Gabby' Hopkins
Hidden Valley Outlaws
Gabby Hayes
Mojave Firebrand
Gabby Hayes
- 1943
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
- 1942
Ridin' Down the Canyon
Gabby
Heart of the Golden West
Gabby
Sunset Serenade
Gabby
Romance on the Range
Gabby
Sunset on the Desert
Gabby Whittaker
Man from Cheyenne
Gabby Whittaker
- 1941
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
- 1940
The Border Legion
Honest John Whittaker
Young Bill Hickok
'Gabby' Whitaker
Colorado
Gabby
The Ranger and the Lady
Gabby Whittaker
The Carson City Kid
Gabby Whittaker
Wagons Westward
Hardtack
Dark Command
Andrew 'Doc' Grunch
1930s
- 1939
Days of Jesse James
Gabby
Saga of Death Valley
Gabby
In Old Monterey
Gabby Whittaker
Renegade Trail
Windy Halliday
Man of Conquest
Lannie Upchurch
Silver on the Sage
Windy Halliday
Southward Ho!
Gabby
Let Freedom Ring
Pop Wilkie
Fighting Thoroughbreds
Gramps Montrose
- 1938
In Old Mexico
Windy Halliday
Heart of Arizona
Windy Halliday
Gold Is Where You Find It
Enoch
- 1937
Rustlers' Valley
Windy Halliday
Mountain Music
Granpappy Burnside
Hills of Old Wyoming
Windy Halliday
- 1936
Trail Dust
Windy Halliday
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
Windy Halliday
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Bearded Man
I Married a Doctor
Train Station Agent
Song of the Trail
Dan Hobson
Call of the Prairie
Shanghai McHenry
Heart of the West
Windy Jenkins
The Lawless Nineties
Major Carter
Silverspurs
Drag Harlan
Valley of the Lawless
Grandpaw Jenkins
- 1935
Hitch Hike Lady
Miner
Swifty
Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes)
Bar 20 Rides Again
Windy Halliday
The Eagle's Brood
Spike
$1,000 a Minute
New Deal Watson
The Throwback
Ford Cruze
Thunder Mountain
Foley
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Dr. Parker
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Lucas
Honeymoon Limited
Pinkham
Ladies Crave Excitement
McCloskey
Justice of the Range
John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
Pearson (as George Hayes)
The Headline Woman
Duffy
Tombstone Terror
Soupy Baxter
Smokey Smith
Blaze Bart
Rainbow Valley
George Hale
The Outlaw Tamer
Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes)
The Lost City
Butterfield
Death Flies East
Wotkyns
- 1934
Vengence is Mine
Dusty
The Drifter
Marvin Black
Bandits of the Badlands
Sheriff Jake Withers
The Shadow Gang
Matt Matlock
Next Of Kin
'Dusty'
Monte Carlo Nights
Inspector Nick Gunby
Rodeo Rocketeers
Marshall George
City Limits
Charlie Carter
Bedlam of Beards
Movie
Mystery Liner
Joe, the Watchman
Beggars in Ermine
Joe Wilson
Claim Jumpers
Jake Benson
- 1933
Ship of Wanted Men
Crewman
Skyway
George Taylor
The Devil's Mate
Collins
Ranger's Code
Baxter (as George Hayes)
Galloping Romeo
Grizzly
The Fugitive
Judge Tyler
Fighting Texans
Pop Martin
The Sphinx
Detective Casey
Crashing Broadway
J. Talbot Thorndyke
The Gallant Fool
Dad Denton
The Return of Casey Jones
Timothy Shine
The Phantom Broadcast
Police Lieutenant
Breed of the Border
Chuck Wiggins
- 1932
The Fighting Champ
Pete
Self Defense
Jury Foreman
Wild Horse Mesa
Slack
Hidden Valley
Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat
Broadway to Cheyenne
Walrus
Klondike
Tom Ross
Winner Take All
Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited)
The Boiling Point
George Duncan
The Man from Hell's Edges
Shamrock Cassidy
Riders of the Desert
Hashknife Brooks
Border Devils
Squint Sanders
Play Girl
Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited)
Sally of the Subway
Police Lieutenant Paxton
- 1931
Dragnet Patrol
Private Detective
Cavalier of the West
Sheriff Bill Ryan
Oklahoma Jim
Crooked Gambler
The Nevada Buckaroo
Cherokee Williams
Big Business Girl
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
God's Country and the Man
Stingaree Kelly
The Stolen Jools
Projectionist
- 1930
Top Speed
Western Union Clerk
For the Defense
Ben (the waiter)
She Who Gets Slapped
Poker Player
Playing Around
Railroad Ticket-Seller (uncredited)
1920s
- 1929
Smiling Irish Eyes
Taxi Driver
Rainbow Man
Bill
1910s
- 1919
The House Without Children
Archibald Ponsonby
Appearances7
1980s
- 1987
It's Howdy Doody Time: A 40-Year Celebration
Self (archive footage)
1970s
- 1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
1950s
- 1958
The Western: A Lost TV Special
Self
- 1956
The Gabby Hayes Show
Narrator · 12 episodes
- 1950
The Gabby Hayes Show
Himself · 2 episodes
