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George 'Gabby' Hayes

George 'Gabby' Hayes

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.

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

197

Gender

Male

Birthday

1885-05-06

Place of Birth

Wellsville, New York, USA

Also Known As

George Francis Hayes, George Hayes, George Francis "Gabby" Hayes

Known For

My Pal Trigger Riders of Destiny Randy Rides Alone Texas Terror The Lucky Texan Mr. Deeds Goes to Town West of the Divide Dark Command In Old Oklahoma Albuquerque Tall in the Saddle The Star Packer The Hoosier Schoolmaster The Lost City Bad Man of Deadwood Badman's Territory Colorado The Carson City Kid The Lawless Frontier Silverspurs The Throwback The Texas Rangers The Frontiersmen The Eagle's Brood Pride of the West In Old Mexico Silver on the Sage Bar 20 Justice Renegade Trail Sunset Trail Three on the Trail Hopalong Rides Again Hopalong Cassidy Returns North of the Rio Grande Hop-a-long Cassidy Rustlers' Valley Heart of the West Call of the Prairie Bar 20 Rides Again Borderland Texas Trail Heart of Arizona Hills of Old Wyoming Trail Dust Home in Oklahoma Lights of Old Santa Fe Sheriff of Tombstone Sunset Serenade Bells of Rosarita Heldorado Roll on Texas Moon The Border Legion Young Bill Hickok Under Nevada Skies The Man from Utah Rainbow Valley Blue Steel Rainbow Man Trail Street The Lawless Nineties Sunset in El Dorado In Old Cheyenne Young Buffalo Bill Border Devils Bandits of the Badlands The Shadow Gang Next Of Kin The Arizona Kid Rainbow Over Texas The Big Bonanza Red River Valley Ridin' Down the Canyon Southward Ho! Heart of the Golden West The Ranger and the Lady Man from Cheyenne Sunset on the Desert South of Santa Fe Klondike The Night Rider The Boiling Point Galloping Romeo In Old Santa Fe The Return of Casey Jones Monte Carlo Nights Utah Return of the Bad Men Man of Conquest Marshal of Reno Jesse James at Bay Ladies Crave Excitement Days of Jesse James Tucson Raiders Song of Arizona Robin Hood of the Pecos Romance on the Range Tumbling Tumbleweeds Let Freedom Ring The Nevada Buckaroo Riders of the Desert Honeymoon Limited The Sons of the Pioneers El Paso A Slip at the Switch The Cariboo Trail Saga of Death Valley For the Defense Dragnet Patrol Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch In Old Monterey Nevada City The Man from Hell's Edges The Brand of Hate Gold Is Where You Find It Justice of the Range Hitch Hike Lady Cavalier of the West Playing Around Death Flies East Skyway The Plainsman Big News Top Speed Tombstone Terror Along the Navajo Trail Wall Street Cowboy Smokey Smith City Limits Death Valley Manhunt Bordertown Gun Fighters Valiant Is the Word for Carrie Hidden Valley Outlaws The Man from Hell In Old Caliente Sally of the Subway Dirigible Ranger's Code The Gallant Fool Swifty Don't Fence Me In Wagons Westward Trailing North Valley of the Lawless The Outlaw Tamer Man from Oklahoma Wagon Tracks West Thunder Mountain The Untamed Breed The Fighting Champ $1,000 a Minute Calling Wild Bill Elliott Fighting Thoroughbreds Ship of Wanted Men Song of the Trail The Stolen Jools Claim Jumpers I Married a Doctor Big Business Girl Melody Ranch Winner Take All Mystery Liner The Man from Thunder River The Sphinx She Who Gets Slapped Overland Mail Robbery Mojave Firebrand Wild Horse Mesa Wyoming Breed of the Border Play Girl Texas Buddies Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Love Me Tonight Bedlam of Beards House of Mystery 'Neath the Arizona Skies Mountain Music God's Country and the Man The Headline Woman Hidden Valley Oklahoma Jim Self Defense Broadway to Cheyenne The Phantom Broadcast Fighting Texans Crashing Broadway The Fugitive The Devil's Mate Beggars in Ermine The House Without Children Smiling Irish Eyes The Farmer Takes a Wife Rodeo Rocketeers Vengence is Mine The Drifter The Western: A Lost TV Special It's Howdy Doody Time: A 40-Year Celebration
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