George 'Gabby' Hayes

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1885-05-06 (84 years old)

Deathday

1969-02-09

Place of Birth

Wellsville, New York, USA

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 ...

Acting

1946

My Pal Trigger

as Gabby Kendrick

1933

Riders of Destiny

as Charlie Denton

1934

Randy Rides Alone

as - Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute

1935

Texas Terror

as Sheriff Ed Williams

1934

The Lucky Texan

as Jake 'Grandy' Benson

1936

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

as Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)

1934

1940

Dark Command

as Andrew 'Doc' Grunch

1943

In Old Oklahoma

as Despirit Dean

1948

1934

The Star Packer

as Matt Matlock

1935

The Hoosier Schoolmaster

as Pearson (as George Hayes)

1935

The Lost City

as Butterfield

1941

Bad Man of Deadwood

as Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone

1946

Badman's Territory

as Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid

1940

The Carson City Kid

as Gabby Whittaker

1940

Colorado

as Gabby

1935

The Throwback

as Ford Cruze

1936

Silver Spurs

as Drag Harlan

1936

The Texas Rangers

as Judge Snow

1938

In Old Mexico

as Windy Halliday

1938

Pride of the West

as Windy Halliday

1938

Bar 20 Justice

as Windy Halliday

1935

1939

Renegade Trail

as Windy Halliday

1938

The Frontiersmen

as Windy Halliday

1939

Silver on the Sage

as Windy Halliday

1939

Sunset Trail

as Windy Halliday

1936

Three on the Trail

as Windy Halliday

1936

Hopalong Cassidy Returns

as Windy Halliday

1937

Hopalong Rides Again

as Windy Halliday

1935

Hop-a-long Cassidy

as Uncle Ben

1937

North of the Rio Grande

as Windy Halliday

1937

Texas Trail

as Windy Halliday

1936

Heart of the West

as Windy Jenkins

1935

Bar 20 Rides Again

as Windy Halliday

1937

Borderland

as Windy Halliday

1936

Call of the Prairie

as Shanghai McHenry

1937

Rustlers' Valley

as Windy Halliday

1936

Trail Dust

as Windy Halliday

1938

Heart of Arizona

as Windy Halliday

1937

Hills of Old Wyoming

as Windy Halliday

1946

Home in Oklahoma

as Gabby Whittaker

1942

1944

Lights of Old Santa Fe

as Gabby Whittaker

1945

Bells of Rosarita

as Gabby Whittake

1946

Heldorado

as Gabby Whittaker

1946

Roll on Texas Moon

as Gabby Whittaker

1940

The Border Legion

as Honest John Whittaker

1946

Under Nevada Skies

as Gabby Whittaker

1940

Young Bill Hickok

as 'Gabby' Whitaker

1934

The Man from Utah

as Marshal George Higgins

1935

Rainbow Valley

as George Hale

1934

Blue Steel

as Sheriff Jake Withers

1929

1947

Trail Street

as Billy Jones

1936

The Lawless Nineties

as Major Carter

1941

In Old Cheyenne

as Arapaho Brown

1940

Young Buffalo Bill

as Gabby Whittaker

1932

Border Devils

as Squint Sanders

1934

Bandits of the Badlands

as Sheriff Jake Withers

1934

The Shadow Gang

as Matt Matlock

1934

Next Of Kin

as 'Dusty'

1939

The Arizona Kid

as Gabby Whittaker

1946

Rainbow Over Texas

as Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker

1944

The Big Bonanza

as Hap Selby

1941

Red River Valley

as Gabby Whittaker

1939

1940

The Ranger and the Lady

as Gabby Whittaker

1942

Man from Cheyenne

as Gabby Whittaker

1942

South of Santa Fe

as Gabby Whittaker

1942

Sunset on the Desert

as Gabby Whittaker

1932

Klondike

as Tom Ross

1932

The Night Rider

as Altoonie

1932

The Boiling Point

as George Duncan

1933

Galloping Romeo

as Grizzly

1933

1934

1934

Monte Carlo Nights

as Inspector Nick Gunby

1945

Utah

as Gabby Whittaker

1948

Return of the Bad Men

as John Pettit

1939

Man of Conquest

as Lannie Upchurch

1944

1941

Jesse James at Bay

as Sheriff Gabby Whitaker

1935

1944

Tucson Raiders

as 'Gabby' Hopkins

1946

Song of Arizona

as Gabby Whittaker

1941

Robin Hood of the Pecos

as Gabriel Gabby Hornaday

1935

1939

Let Freedom Ring

as Pop Wilkie

1931

The Nevada Buckaroo

as Cherokee Williams

1932

Riders of the Desert

as Hashknife Brooks

1935

1942

Sons of the Pioneers

as Gabby Whittaker

1949

El Paso

as Pesky Tees

1932

A Slip at the Switch

as Deputy Smoot

1950

1930

For the Defense

as Ben (the waiter)

1931

Dragnet Patrol

as Private Detective

1976

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

as (archive footage)

1939

In Old Monterey

as Gabby Whittaker

1941

Nevada City

as Gabby Chapman

1932

The Man from Hell's Edges

as Shamrock Cassidy

1934

The Brand of Hate

as Bill Larkins

1935

Justice of the Range

as John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson

1935

1931

Cavalier of the West

as Sheriff Bill Ryan

1930

Playing Around

as Railroad Ticket-Seller (uncredited)

1935

1933

Skyway

as George Taylor

1936

The Plainsman

as Breezy

1929

Big News

as Hoffman

1930

Top Speed

as Western Union Clerk

1935

Tombstone Terror

as Soupy Baxter

1945

Along the Navajo Trail

as Gabby Whittaker

1939

1935

Smokey Smith

as Blaze Bart

1934

City Limits

as Charlie Carter

1943

1943

Death Valley Manhunt

as Gabby Hayes

1944

Hidden Valley Outlaws

as Gabby Hayes

1934

The Man from Hell

as Banker Colonel Campbell

1939

1932

Sally of the Subway

as Police Lieutenant Paxton

1931

Dirigible

as Parade Official (uncredited)

1933

Ranger's Code

as Baxter (as George Hayes)

1933

The Gallant Fool

as Dad Denton

1935

Swifty

as Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes)

1945

Don't Fence Me In

as Gabby Whittaker

1940

Wagons Westward

as Hardtack

1933

Trailing North

as Flash Ryan

1936

Valley of the Lawless

as Grandpaw Jenkins

1935

The Outlaw Tamer

as Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes)

1945

Man from Oklahoma

as Gabby Whittaker

1943

1935

1948

The Untamed Breed

as Windy Lucas

1935

$1,000 a Minute

as New Deal Watson

1943

1939

Fighting Thoroughbreds

as Gramps Montrose

1933

1936

Song of the Trail

as Dan Hobson

1931

The Stolen Jools

as Projectionist

1934

Claim Jumpers

as Jake Benson

1936

I Married a Doctor

as Train Station Agent

1931

Big Business Girl

as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

1940

Melody Ranch

as Pop Laramie

1932

Winner Take All

as Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited)

1934

Mystery Liner

as Joe, the Watchman

1943

The Man from Thunder River

as Gabby Whittaker

1933

The Sphinx

as Detective Casey

1930

She Who Gets Slapped

as Poker Player

1944

Mojave Firebrand

as Gabby Hayes

1932

1947

Wyoming

as Windy Gibson

1933

Breed of the Border

as Chuck Wiggins

1932

Play Girl

as Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited)

1932

Texas Buddies

as Si Haller

1975

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

as Self (archive footage)

1932

Love Me Tonight

as Grocer (uncredited)

1934

House of Mystery

as David Fells

1934

1937

Mountain Music

as Granpappy Burnside

1931

God's Country and the Man

as Stingaree Kelly

1935

1932

Hidden Valley

as Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat

1931

Oklahoma Jim

as Crooked Gambler

1932

Self Defense

as Jury Foreman

1933

The Phantom Broadcast

as Police Lieutenant

1933

1933

Fighting Texans

as Pop Martin

1933

Crashing Broadway

as J. Talbot Thorndyke

1933

The Fugitive

as Judge Tyler

1934

Beggars in Ermine

as Joe Wilson

1919

The House Without Children

as Archibald Ponsonby

1929

Smiling Irish Eyes

as Taxi Driver

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