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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 6, 1885
Died
February 9, 1969
Place of Birth
Wellsville, New York, USA
Also Known As
- George Francis Hayes
- George Hayes
- George Francis "Gabby" Hayes
George 'Gabby' Hayes
0.9 Popularity
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
7.7
Gabby Whittaker (archive footage)
Western von gestern
1978
9.0
(archive footage)
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976
6.1
Self (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
0.0
Self
The Western: A Lost TV Special
1958
6.0
Self
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
0.0
Narrator
The Gabby Hayes Show
1956
6.5
Himself
The Gabby Hayes Show
1950
6.4
Grizzly
The Cariboo Trail
1950
6.9
Self
What's My Line?
1950
5.7
Pesky Tees
El Paso
1949
Credits
Western von gestern
as Gabby Whittaker (archive footage)
1978
7.7
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
as (archive footage)
1976
9.0
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975
6.1
The Western: A Lost TV Special
as Self
1958
0.0
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
1956
6.0
The Gabby Hayes Show
as Narrator
1956
0.0
The Gabby Hayes Show
as Himself
1950
6.5
The Cariboo Trail
as Grizzly
1950
6.4
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
6.9
El Paso
as Pesky Tees
1949
5.7
The Untamed Breed
as Windy Lucas
1948
5.0
Return of the Bad Men
as John Pettit
1948
6.3
Albuquerque
as Juke
1948
6.8
Wyoming
as Windy Gibson
1947
6.0
Trail Street
as Billy Jones
1947
6.4
Heldorado
as Gabby Whittaker
1946
5.6
Home in Oklahoma
as Gabby Whittaker
1946
6.2
Roll on Texas Moon
as Gabby Whittaker
1946
6.0
Under Nevada Skies
as Gabby Whittaker
1946
5.0
My Pal Trigger
as Gabby Kendrick
1946
5.4
Rainbow Over Texas
as Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker
1946
4.0
Badman's Territory
as Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid
1946
5.7
Song of Arizona
as Gabby Whittaker
1946
4.3
Don't Fence Me In
as Gabby Whittaker
1945
4.3
Sunset in El Dorado
as Gabby
1945
4.2
Along the Navajo Trail
as Gabby Whittaker
1945
0.0
Man from Oklahoma
as Gabby Whittaker
1945
4.0
Bells of Rosarita
as Gabby Whittake
1945
5.4
Utah
as Gabby Whittaker
1945
5.0
The Big Bonanza
as Hap Selby
1944
5.5
Lights of Old Santa Fe
as Gabby Whittaker
1944
5.2
Tall in the Saddle
as Dave
1944
6.5
Marshal of Reno
as Gabby
1944
7.0
Tucson Raiders
as 'Gabby' Hopkins
1944
0.0
Hidden Valley Outlaws
as Gabby Hayes
1944
0.0
Mojave Firebrand
as Gabby Hayes
1944
3.0
In Old Oklahoma
as Despirit Dean
1943
6.2
Death Valley Manhunt
as Gabby Hayes
1943
5.0
Overland Mail Robbery
as Gabby
1943
0.0
Wagon Tracks West
as Gabby
1943
0.0
Bordertown Gun Fighters
as Gabby Hayes
1943
0.0
The Man from Thunder River
as Gabby Whittaker
1943
5.0
Calling Wild Bill Elliott
as Gabby Hayes
1943
6.0
Ridin' Down the Canyon
as Gabby
1942
7.0
Heart of the Golden West
as Gabby
1942
1.5
Sunset Serenade
as Gabby
1942
5.5
Sons of the Pioneers
as Gabby Whittaker
1942
0.0
Romance on the Range
as Gabby
1942
5.7
Sunset on the Desert
as Gabby Whittaker
1942
5.8
South of Santa Fe
as Gabby Whittaker
1942
4.5
Man from Cheyenne
as Gabby Whittaker
1942
7.5
Red River Valley
as Gabby Whittaker
1941
7.7
Jesse James at Bay
as Sheriff Gabby Whitaker
1941
4.2
Bad Man of Deadwood
as Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone
1941
4.4
Nevada City
as Gabby Chapman
1941
5.0
Sheriff of Tombstone
as Gabby
1941
6.8
In Old Cheyenne
as Arapaho Brown
1941
4.1
Robin Hood of the Pecos
as Gabriel Gabby Hornaday
1941
5.0
The Border Legion
as Honest John Whittaker
1940
4.4
Young Bill Hickok
as 'Gabby' Whitaker
1940
4.5
Colorado
as Gabby
1940
5.5
Melody Ranch
as Pop Laramie
1940
5.8
The Ranger and the Lady
as Gabby Whittaker
1940
5.0
The Carson City Kid
as Gabby Whittaker
1940
5.5
Wagons Westward
as Hardtack
1940
6.0
Dark Command
as Andrew 'Doc' Grunch
1940
6.3
Young Buffalo Bill
as Gabby Whittaker
1940
3.8
Days of Jesse James
as Gabby
1939
4.7
Saga of Death Valley
as Gabby
1939
6.2
The Arizona Kid
as Gabby Whittaker
1939
5.8
In Old Monterey
as Gabby Whittaker
1939
5.3
Wall Street Cowboy
as Gabby
1939
4.7
Renegade Trail
as Windy Halliday
1939
4.0
In Old Caliente
as Gabby
1939
5.0
Man of Conquest
as Lannie Upchurch
1939
5.0
Silver on the Sage
as Windy Halliday
1939
3.0
Southward Ho!
as Gabby
1939
4.0
Sunset Trail
as Windy Halliday
1939
5.0
Let Freedom Ring
as Pop Wilkie
1939
6.0
🎬
Fighting Thoroughbreds
as Gramps Montrose
1939
0.0
The Frontiersmen
as Windy Halliday
1938
4.0
In Old Mexico
as Windy Halliday
1938
3.0
Pride of the West
as Windy Halliday
1938
4.0
Bar 20 Justice
as Windy Halliday
1938
4.7
Heart of Arizona
as Windy Halliday
1938
5.0
Gold Is Where You Find It
as Enoch
1938
6.9
Texas Trail
as Windy Halliday
1937
5.0
Hopalong Rides Again
as Windy Halliday
1937
5.5
Rustlers' Valley
as Windy Halliday
1937
5.3
North of the Rio Grande
as Windy Halliday
1937
5.5
Mountain Music
as Granpappy Burnside
1937
5.3
Hills of Old Wyoming
as Windy Halliday
1937
3.0
Borderland
as Windy Halliday
1937
5.0
Trail Dust
as Windy Halliday
1936
4.0
The Plainsman
as Breezy
1936
6.3
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
as Windy Halliday
1936
6.0
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
as Bearded Man
1936
6.4
The Texas Rangers
as Judge Snow
1936
6.3
I Married a Doctor
as Train Station Agent
1936
4.7
Three on the Trail
as Windy Halliday
1936
4.5
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
as Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)
1936
7.5
Song of the Trail
as Dan Hobson
1936
5.0
Call of the Prairie
as Shanghai McHenry
1936
4.7
Heart of the West
as Windy Jenkins
1936
4.0
The Lawless Nineties
as Major Carter
1936
5.2
Silver Spurs
as Drag Harlan
1936
0.0
Valley of the Lawless
as Grandpaw Jenkins
1936
0.0
Hitch Hike Lady
as Miner
1935
6.8
Swifty
as Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes)
1935
0.0
Bar 20 Rides Again
as Windy Halliday
1935
5.0
The Eagle's Brood
as Spike
1935
4.7
$1,000 a Minute
as New Deal Watson
1935
5.8
Texas Terror
as Sheriff Ed Williams
1935
4.6
The Throwback
as Ford Cruze
1935
0.0
Thunder Mountain
as Foley
1935
0.0
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
as Dr. Parker
1935
6.2
Hop-a-long Cassidy
as Uncle Ben
1935
5.3
The Farmer Takes a Wife
as Lucas
1935
6.1
Honeymoon Limited
as Pinkham
1935
5.3
Ladies Crave Excitement
as McCloskey
1935
4.5
Justice of the Range
as John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson
1935
0.0
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
as Pearson (as George Hayes)
1935
3.6
The Headline Woman
as Duffy
1935
4.0
Tombstone Terror
as Soupy Baxter
1935
4.0
Smokey Smith
as Blaze Bart
1935
5.0
The Outlaw Tamer
as Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes)
1935
0.0
Rainbow Valley
as George Hale
1935
4.7
The Lost City
as Butterfield
1935
5.1
Death Flies East
as Wotkyns
1935
5.0
'Neath the Arizona Skies
as Matt Downing
1934
4.5
The Lawless Frontier
as Dusty
1934
4.6
Vengence is Mine
as Dusty
1934
0.0
In Old Santa Fe
as Cactus
1934
5.0
The Brand of Hate
as Bill Larkins
1934
4.5
The Man from Hell
as Banker Colonel Campbell
1934
4.5
The Star Packer
as Matt Matlock
1934
4.4
The Drifter
as Marvin Black
1934
0.0
Randy Rides Alone
as - Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute
1934
4.8
The Shadow Gang
as Matt Matlock
1934
0.0
Next Of Kin
as 'Dusty'
1934
0.0
Bandits of the Badlands
as Sheriff Jake Withers
1934
0.0
Monte Carlo Nights
as Inspector Nick Gunby
1934
5.9
The Man from Utah
as Marshal George Higgins
1934
4.6
Rodeo Rocketeers
as Marshall George
1934
0.0
Blue Steel
as Sheriff Jake Withers
1934
4.7
City Limits
as Charlie Carter
1934
4.0
Bedlam of Beards
1934
1.0
House of Mystery
as David Fells
1934
4.7
Mystery Liner
as Joe, the Watchman
1934
4.1
Beggars in Ermine
as Joe Wilson
1934
6.3
West of the Divide
as 'Dusty'
1934
5.0
The Lucky Texan
as Jake 'Grandy' Benson
1934
4.9
Claim Jumpers
as Jake Benson
1934
0.0
Riders of Destiny
as Charlie Denton
1933
5.2
Ship of Wanted Men
as Crewman
1933
1.7
Skyway
as George Taylor
1933
5.2
The Devil's Mate
as Collins
1933
0.0
Ranger's Code
as Baxter (as George Hayes)
1933
0.0
Galloping Romeo
as Grizzly
1933
0.0
The Fugitive
as Judge Tyler
1933
0.0
Fighting Texans
as Pop Martin
1933
0.0
The Sphinx
as Detective Casey
1933
4.6
Crashing Broadway
as J. Talbot Thorndyke
1933
4.0
The Gallant Fool
as Dad Denton
1933
0.0
The Return of Casey Jones
as Timothy Shine
1933
6.0
Trailing North
as Flash Ryan
1933
6.7
The Phantom Broadcast
as Police Lieutenant
1933
4.3
Breed of the Border
as Chuck Wiggins
1933
0.0
Self Defense
as Jury Foreman
1932
0.0
The Fighting Champ
as Pete
1932
5.5
Wild Horse Mesa
as Slack
1932
0.0
Texas Buddies
as Si Haller
1932
6.0
Hidden Valley
as Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat
1932
6.0
Broadway to Cheyenne
as Walrus
1932
4.3
Klondike
as Tom Ross
1932
4.7
The Night Rider
as Altoonie
1932
0.0
Love Me Tonight
as Grocer (uncredited)
1932
6.5
🎬
A Slip at the Switch
as Deputy Smoot
1932
0.0
Winner Take All
as Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited)
1932
4.7
The Boiling Point
as George Duncan
1932
4.0
The Man from Hell's Edges
as Shamrock Cassidy
1932
4.0
Riders of the Desert
as Hashknife Brooks
1932
4.5
Border Devils
as Squint Sanders
1932
5.3
Play Girl
as Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited)
1932
4.5
Sally of the Subway
as Police Lieutenant Paxton
1932
6.0
Dragnet Patrol
as Private Detective
1931
5.2
Cavalier of the West
as Sheriff Bill Ryan
1931
4.8
Oklahoma Jim
as Crooked Gambler
1931
0.0
The Nevada Buckaroo
as Cherokee Williams
1931
0.0
Big Business Girl
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
1931
6.0
God's Country and the Man
as Stingaree Kelly
1931
0.0
The Stolen Jools
as Projectionist
1931
5.6
Dirigible
as Parade Official (uncredited)
1931
5.0
Top Speed
as Western Union Clerk
1930
6.0
For the Defense
as Ben (the waiter)
1930
4.8
She Who Gets Slapped
as Poker Player
1930
8.0
Playing Around
as Railroad Ticket-Seller (uncredited)
1930
4.3
Big News
as Hoffman
1929
4.2
Smiling Irish Eyes
as Taxi Driver
1929
0.0
Rainbow Man
as Bill
1929
0.0
The House Without Children
as Archibald Ponsonby
1919
0.0