![Image of George 'Gabby' Hayes](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/dxubdsrT2z3TeMnOBI2g8GtUx0c.jpg)
American character actor, the most famous of Western-movie sidekicks of the 1930s and 1940s. He was born May 7, 1885, the third of seven children, in the Hayes Hotel (owned by his father) in the tiny hamlet of Stannards, New York, on the outskirts of Wellsville, New York. Hayes was the son of hotelier and oil-production manager Clark Hayes, and grew up in Stannards. As a young man, George Hayes worked in a circus and played semi-pro baseball while a teenager. He ran away from home at 17, in 1902, and joined a touring stock company. He married Olive Ireland in 1914 and the pair became quite successful on the vaudeville circuit. Retired in his 40s, he lost much of his money in the 1929 stock market crash and was forced to return to work. Although he had made his film debut in a single appearance prior to the crash, it was not until his wife convinced him to move to California and he met producer Trem Carr that he began working steadily in the medium. 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 many films between 1936-39. 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. One of the few sidekicks to land on the annual list of Top Ten Western Boxoffice Stars, he did so repeatedly. 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 a network television show devoted to stories of the Old West for children, The Gabby Hayes Show (1950). Offstage an elegant and well-appointed connoisseur and man-about-town, Hayes devoted the final years of his life to his investments. He died of cardiovascular disease in Burbank, California, on February 9, 1969.
Movie | Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch | (archive footage) | 1976-05-01 |
Movie | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) | 1975-08-06 |
Movie | The Cariboo Trail | Grizzly | 1950-08-01 |
Series | The Gabby Hayes Show | Himself | 1950-12-11 |
Movie | El Paso | Pesky Tees | 1949-03-22 |
Movie | Albuquerque | Juke | 1948-02-20 |
Movie | Return of the Bad Men | John Pettit | 1948-07-17 |
Movie | The Untamed Breed | Windy Lucas | 1948-10-20 |
Movie | Wyoming | Windy Gibson | 1947-07-28 |
Movie | Trail Street | Billy Jones | 1947-02-19 |
Movie | Rainbow Over Texas | Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker | 1946-05-09 |
Movie | Badman's Territory | Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid | 1946-05-04 |
Movie | My Pal Trigger | Gabby Kendrick | 1946-07-10 |
Movie | Song of Arizona | Gabby Whittaker | 1946-03-08 |
Movie | Under Nevada Skies | Gabby Whittaker | 1946-08-26 |
Movie | Heldorado | Gabby Whittaker | 1946-12-15 |
Movie | Home in Oklahoma | Gabby Whittaker | 1946-10-18 |
Movie | Roll on Texas Moon | Gabby Whittaker | 1946-09-12 |
Movie | Bells of Rosarita | Gabby Whittake | 1945-06-19 |
Movie | Utah | Gabby Whittaker | 1945-03-21 |
Movie | Man from Oklahoma | Gabby Whittaker | 1945-07-01 |
Movie | Along the Navajo Trail | Gabby Whittaker | 1945-09-15 |
Movie | Sunset in El Dorado | Gabby | 1945-09-29 |
Movie | Don't Fence Me In | Gabby Whittaker | 1945-10-20 |
Movie | Hidden Valley Outlaws | Gabby Hayes | 1944-04-01 |
Movie | Mojave Firebrand | Gabby Hayes | 1944-03-19 |
Movie | Tucson Raiders | 'Gabby' Hopkins | 1944-05-14 |
Movie | The Big Bonanza | Hap Selby | 1944-12-30 |
Movie | Marshal of Reno | Gabby | 1944-07-02 |
Movie | Lights of Old Santa Fe | Gabby Whittaker | 1944-11-06 |
Movie | Tall in the Saddle | Dave | 1944-09-29 |
Movie | The Man from Thunder River | Gabby Whittaker | 1943-06-11 |
Movie | Calling Wild Bill Elliott | Gabby Hayes | 1943-04-30 |
Movie | Bordertown Gun Fighters | Gabby Hayes | 1943-07-08 |
Movie | Wagon Tracks West | Gabby | 1943-08-18 |
Movie | Death Valley Manhunt | Gabby Hayes | 1943-11-25 |
Movie | In Old Oklahoma | Despirit Dean | 1943-12-06 |
Movie | Overland Mail Robbery | Gabby | 1943-11-20 |
Movie | Sunset on the Desert | Gabby Whittaker | 1942-04-01 |
Movie | South of Santa Fe | Gabby Whittaker | 1942-02-17 |
Movie | Man from Cheyenne | Gabby Whittaker | 1942-01-16 |
Movie | Romance on the Range | Gabby | 1942-05-18 |
Movie | Ridin' Down the Canyon | Gabby | 1942-12-30 |
Movie | Sons of the Pioneers | Gabby Whittaker | 1942-07-02 |
Movie | Heart of the Golden West | Gabby | 1942-11-16 |
Movie | Sunset Serenade | Gabby | 1942-09-14 |
Movie | In Old Cheyenne | Arapaho Brown | 1941-04-04 |
Movie | Sheriff of Tombstone | Gabby | 1941-05-07 |
Movie | Robin Hood of the Pecos | Gabriel Gabby Hornaday | 1941-01-14 |
Movie | Red River Valley | Gabby Whittaker | 1941-12-12 |
Movie | Jesse James at Bay | Sheriff Gabby Whitaker | 1941-10-17 |
Movie | Nevada City | Gabby Chapman | 1941-06-19 |
Movie | Bad Man of Deadwood | Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone | 1941-09-05 |
Movie | Wagons Westward | Hardtack | 1940-06-19 |
Movie | Dark Command | Andrew 'Doc' Grunch | 1940-04-15 |
Movie | Young Buffalo Bill | Gabby Whittaker | 1940-04-11 |
Movie | The Ranger and the Lady | Gabby Whittaker | 1940-07-30 |
Movie | The Carson City Kid | Gabby Whittaker | 1940-07-01 |
Movie | Young Bill Hickok | 'Gabby' Whitaker | 1940-10-21 |
Movie | The Border Legion | Honest John Whittaker | 1940-12-05 |
Movie | Melody Ranch | Pop Laramie | 1940-09-15 |
Movie | Colorado | Gabby | 1940-09-15 |
Movie | Silver on the Sage | Windy Halliday | 1939-03-31 |
Movie | Man of Conquest | Lannie Upchurch | 1939-05-15 |
Movie | Fighting Thoroughbreds | Gramps Montrose | 1939-01-06 |
Movie | In Old Caliente | Gabby | 1939-06-19 |
Movie | Sunset Trail | Windy Halliday | 1939-02-24 |
Movie | Let Freedom Ring | Pop Wilkie | 1939-02-24 |
Movie | Southward Ho! | Gabby | 1939-03-19 |
Movie | Days of Jesse James | Gabby | 1939-12-20 |
Movie | Renegade Trail | Windy Halliday | 1939-07-25 |
Movie | The Arizona Kid | Gabby Whittaker | 1939-09-28 |
Movie | Saga of Death Valley | Gabby | 1939-11-17 |
Movie | In Old Monterey | Gabby Whittaker | 1939-08-14 |
Movie | Wall Street Cowboy | Gabby | 1939-08-06 |
Movie | Heart of Arizona | Windy Halliday | 1938-04-22 |
Movie | Gold Is Where You Find It | Enoch | 1938-02-12 |
Movie | Bar 20 Justice | Windy Halliday | 1938-06-24 |
Movie | In Old Mexico | Windy Halliday | 1938-09-09 |
Movie | Pride of the West | Windy Halliday | 1938-07-07 |
Movie | The Frontiersmen | Windy Halliday | 1938-12-16 |
Movie | Hills of Old Wyoming | Windy Halliday | 1937-04-16 |
Movie | Borderland | Windy Halliday | 1937-02-26 |
Movie | Mountain Music | Granpappy Burnside | 1937-06-18 |
Movie | Texas Trail | Windy Halliday | 1937-11-26 |
Movie | North of the Rio Grande | Windy Halliday | 1937-06-28 |
Movie | Hopalong Rides Again | Windy Halliday | 1937-08-20 |
Movie | Rustlers' Valley | Windy Halliday | 1937-07-23 |
Movie | Call of the Prairie | Shanghai McHenry | 1936-03-06 |
Movie | Song of the Trail | Dan Hobson | 1936-03-15 |
Movie | Heart of the West | Windy Jenkins | 1936-02-24 |
Movie | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited) | 1936-04-09 |
Movie | Valley of the Lawless | Grandpaw Jenkins | 1936-01-25 |
Movie | The Lawless Nineties | Major Carter | 1936-02-15 |
Movie | The Plainsman | Breezy | 1936-11-16 |
Movie | Trail Dust | Windy Halliday | 1936-12-11 |
Movie | Three on the Trail | Windy Halliday | 1936-04-14 |
Movie | Valiant Is the Word for Carrie | Bearded Man | 1936-10-06 |
Movie | Hopalong Cassidy Returns | Windy Halliday | 1936-10-16 |
Movie | The Texas Rangers | Judge Snow | 1936-08-28 |
Movie | I Married a Doctor | Train Station Agent | 1936-04-25 |
Movie | Tombstone Terror | Soupy Baxter | 1935-04-24 |
Movie | The Hoosier Schoolmaster | Pearson (as George Hayes) | 1935-05-14 |
Movie | The Headline Woman | Duffy | 1935-05-14 |
Movie | Smokey Smith | Blaze Bart | 1935-04-01 |
Movie | Death Flies East | Wotkyns | 1935-02-28 |
Movie | Ladies Crave Excitement | McCloskey | 1935-06-21 |
Movie | The Lost City | Butterfield | 1935-03-06 |
Movie | Rainbow Valley | George Hale | 1935-03-15 |
Movie | The Outlaw Tamer | Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes) | 1935-03-15 |
Movie | Honeymoon Limited | Pinkham | 1935-07-01 |
Movie | $1,000 a Minute | New Deal Watson | 1935-10-21 |
Movie | The Eagle's Brood | Spike | 1935-10-25 |
Movie | Swifty | Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes) | 1935-12-12 |
Movie | Hitch Hike Lady | Miner | 1935-12-28 |
Movie | Texas Terror | Sheriff Ed Williams | 1935-10-17 |
Movie | Bar 20 Rides Again | Windy Halliday | 1935-12-06 |
Movie | The Throwback | Ford Cruze | 1935-10-01 |
Movie | Tumbling Tumbleweeds | Dr. Parker | 1935-09-05 |
Movie | Hop-a-long Cassidy | Uncle Ben | 1935-08-23 |
Movie | Thunder Mountain | Foley | 1935-09-27 |
Movie | Bedlam of Beards | 1934-04-13 | |
Movie | City Limits | Charlie Carter | 1934-04-14 |
Movie | House of Mystery | David Fells | 1934-03-30 |
Movie | Blue Steel | Sheriff Jake Withers | 1934-05-10 |
Movie | Mystery Liner | Joe, the Watchman | 1934-03-15 |
Movie | The Lucky Texan | Jake 'Grandy' Benson | 1934-01-22 |
Movie | Beggars in Ermine | Joe Wilson | 1934-02-21 |
Movie | The Man from Utah | Marshal George Higgins | 1934-05-15 |
Movie | West of the Divide | 'Dusty' | 1934-02-15 |
Movie | In Old Santa Fe | Cactus | 1934-11-15 |
Movie | 'Neath the Arizona Skies | Matt Downing | 1934-12-05 |
Movie | Monte Carlo Nights | Inspector Nick Gunby | 1934-05-20 |
Movie | The Brand of Hate | Bill Larkins | 1934-11-02 |
Movie | The Lawless Frontier | Dusty | 1934-11-22 |
Movie | The Man from Hell | Banker Colonel Campbell | 1934-08-28 |
Movie | Randy Rides Alone | - Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute | 1934-06-05 |
Movie | The Star Packer | Matt Matlock | 1934-07-30 |
Movie | The Return of Casey Jones | Timothy Shine | 1933-05-24 |
Movie | The Gallant Fool | Dad Denton | 1933-05-28 |
Movie | Trailing North | Flash Ryan | 1933-05-15 |
Movie | Breed of the Border | Chuck Wiggins | 1933-03-01 |
Movie | The Sphinx | Detective Casey | 1933-06-01 |
Movie | The Phantom Broadcast | Police Lieutenant | 1933-03-14 |
Movie | Galloping Romeo | Grizzly | 1933-08-04 |
Movie | Ship of Wanted Men | Crewman | 1933-09-08 |
Movie | Riders of Destiny | Charlie Denton | 1933-10-10 |
Movie | Skyway | George Taylor | 1933-08-29 |
Movie | The Devil's Mate | Collins | 1933-08-20 |
Movie | Ranger's Code | Baxter (as George Hayes) | 1933-08-14 |
Movie | The Man from Hell's Edges | Shamrock Cassidy | 1932-05-05 |
Movie | A Slip at the Switch | Deputy Smoot | 1932-08-08 |
Movie | Winner Take All | Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited) | 1932-07-16 |
Movie | Play Girl | Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited) | 1932-03-12 |
Movie | Sally of the Subway | Police Lieutenant Paxton | 1932-01-15 |
Movie | Love Me Tonight | Grocer (uncredited) | 1932-08-18 |
Movie | Border Devils | Squint Sanders | 1932-04-03 |
Movie | Riders of the Desert | Hashknife Brooks | 1932-04-23 |
Movie | Hidden Valley | Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat | 1932-10-10 |
Movie | The Fighting Champ | Pete | 1932-12-15 |
Movie | The Night Rider | Altoonie | 1932-08-22 |
Movie | Self Defense | Jury Foreman | 1932-12-15 |
Movie | Wild Horse Mesa | Slack | 1932-11-25 |
Movie | Klondike | Tom Ross | 1932-08-29 |
Movie | Broadway to Cheyenne | Walrus | 1932-09-09 |
Movie | Texas Buddies | Si Haller | 1932-10-18 |
Movie | The Stolen Jools | Projectionist | 1931-04-04 |
Movie | Dirigible | Parade Official (uncredited) | 1931-02-01 |
Movie | God's Country and the Man | Stingaree Kelly | 1931-05-01 |
Movie | The Nevada Buckaroo | Cherokee Williams | 1931-07-28 |
Movie | Big Business Girl | Hotel Clerk (uncredited) | 1931-06-12 |
Movie | Dragnet Patrol | Private Detective | 1931-12-14 |
Movie | Cavalier of the West | Sheriff Bill Ryan | 1931-11-15 |
Movie | Playing Around | Railroad Ticket-Seller (uncredited) | 1930-01-10 |
Movie | She Who Gets Slapped | Poker Player | 1930-05-15 |
Movie | For the Defense | Ben (the waiter) | 1930-07-19 |
Movie | Top Speed | Western Union Clerk | 1930-08-24 |
Movie | Rainbow Man | Bill | 1929-05-16 |
Movie | Big News | Hoffman | 1929-09-06 |