George 'Gabby' Hayes
Acting
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.
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
(archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
The Western: A Lost TV Special
Self
The Cariboo Trail
Grizzly
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
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
Melody Ranch
Pop Laramie
Colorado
Gabby
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
Let Freedom Ring
Pop Wilkie
Sunset Trail
Windy Halliday
Fighting Thoroughbreds
Gramps Montrose
The Frontiersmen
Windy Halliday
In Old Mexico
Windy Halliday
Pride of the West
Windy Halliday
Bar 20 Justice
Windy Halliday
Heart of Arizona
Windy Halliday
Gold Is Where You Find It
Enoch
Texas Trail
Windy Halliday
Hopalong Rides Again
Windy Halliday
Rustlers' Valley
Windy Halliday
North of the Rio Grande
Windy Halliday
Mountain Music
Granpappy Burnside
Hills of Old Wyoming
Windy Halliday
Borderland
Windy Halliday
Trail Dust
Windy Halliday
The Plainsman
Breezy
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
Windy Halliday
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Bearded Man
The Texas Rangers
Judge Snow
I Married a Doctor
Train Station Agent
Three on the Trail
Windy Halliday
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)
Song of the Trail
Dan Hobson
Call of the Prairie
Shanghai McHenry
Heart of the West
Windy Jenkins
The Lawless Nineties
Major Carter
Silver Spurs
Drag Harlan
Valley of the Lawless
Grandpaw Jenkins
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
Texas Terror
Sheriff Ed Williams
The Throwback
Ford Cruze
Thunder Mountain
Foley
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Dr. Parker
Hop-a-long Cassidy
Uncle Ben
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Lucas
Honeymoon Limited
Pinkham
Ladies Crave Excitement
McCloskey
Justice of the Range
John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson
The Headline Woman
Duffy
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
Pearson (as George Hayes)
Tombstone Terror
Soupy Baxter
Smokey Smith
Blaze Bart
The Outlaw Tamer
Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes)
Rainbow Valley
George Hale
The Lost City
Butterfield
Death Flies East
Wotkyns
'Neath the Arizona Skies
Matt Downing
Vengence is Mine
Dusty
The Lawless Frontier
Dusty
In Old Santa Fe
Cactus
The Brand of Hate
Bill Larkins
The Man from Hell
Banker Colonel Campbell
The Star Packer
Matt Matlock
The Drifter
Marvin Black
Randy Rides Alone
- Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute
Next Of Kin
'Dusty'
The Shadow Gang
Matt Matlock
Bandits of the Badlands
Sheriff Jake Withers
Monte Carlo Nights
Inspector Nick Gunby
Rodeo Rocketeers
Marshall George
The Man from Utah
Marshal George Higgins
Blue Steel
Sheriff Jake Withers
City Limits
Charlie Carter
Bedlam of Beards
House of Mystery
David Fells
Mystery Liner
Joe, the Watchman
Beggars in Ermine
Joe Wilson
West of the Divide
'Dusty'
Claim Jumpers
Jake Benson
The Lucky Texan
Jake 'Grandy' Benson
Riders of Destiny
Charlie Denton
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
Crashing Broadway
J. Talbot Thorndyke
The Sphinx
Detective Casey
The Gallant Fool
Dad Denton
The Return of Casey Jones
Timothy Shine
Trailing North
Flash Ryan
The Phantom Broadcast
Police Lieutenant
Breed of the Border
Chuck Wiggins
Self Defense
Jury Foreman
The Fighting Champ
Pete
Wild Horse Mesa
Slack
Texas Buddies
Si Haller
Hidden Valley
Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat
Broadway to Cheyenne
Walrus
Klondike
Tom Ross
The Night Rider
Altoonie
Love Me Tonight
Grocer (uncredited)
A Slip at the Switch
Deputy Smoot
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
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
Dirigible
Parade Official (uncredited)
Top Speed
Western Union Clerk
For the Defense
Ben (the waiter)
She Who Gets Slapped
Poker Player
Playing Around
Railroad Ticket-Seller (uncredited)
Big News
Hoffman
Smiling Irish Eyes
Taxi Driver
Rainbow Man
Bill
The House Without Children
Archibald Ponsonby