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.
Filmography
all 199
Movies 194
self 7
TV Shows 5
Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys (1992)
Western von gestern (1978)
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1976)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1956)
The Gabby Hayes Show (1956)
The Gabby Hayes Show (1950)
The Cariboo Trail (1950)
What's My Line? (1950)
El Paso (1949)
The Untamed Breed (1948)
Return of the Bad Men (1948)
Albuquerque (1948)
Wyoming (1947)
Trail Street (1947)
Heldorado (1946)
Home in Oklahoma (1946)
Roll on Texas Moon (1946)
Under Nevada Skies (1946)
My Pal Trigger (1946)
Rainbow Over Texas (1946)
Badman's Territory (1946)
Song of Arizona (1946)
Don't Fence Me In (1945)
Sunset in El Dorado (1945)
Along the Navajo Trail (1945)
Man from Oklahoma (1945)
Bells of Rosarita (1945)
Utah (1945)
The Big Bonanza (1944)
Lights of Old Santa Fe (1944)
Tall in the Saddle (1944)
Marshal of Reno (1944)
Tucson Raiders (1944)
Hidden Valley Outlaws (1944)
Mojave Firebrand (1944)
In Old Oklahoma (1943)
Death Valley Manhunt (1943)
Overland Mail Robbery (1943)
Wagon Tracks West (1943)
Bordertown Gun Fighters (1943)
The Man from Thunder River (1943)
Calling Wild Bill Elliott (1943)
Ridin' Down the Canyon (1942)
Heart of the Golden West (1942)
Sunset Serenade (1942)
Sons of the Pioneers (1942)
Romance on the Range (1942)
Sunset on the Desert (1942)
South of Santa Fe (1942)
Man from Cheyenne (1942)
Red River Valley (1941)
Jesse James at Bay (1941)
Bad Man of Deadwood (1941)
Meet the Stars #7: Meet Roy Rogers (1941)
Nevada City (1941)
Sheriff of Tombstone (1941)
In Old Cheyenne (1941)
Robin Hood of the Pecos (1941)
The Border Legion (1940)
Young Bill Hickok (1940)
Colorado (1940)
Melody Ranch (1940)
The Ranger and the Lady (1940)
The Carson City Kid (1940)
Wagons Westward (1940)
Dark Command (1940)
Young Buffalo Bill (1940)
Days of Jesse James (1939)
Saga of Death Valley (1939)
The Arizona Kid (1939)
In Old Monterey (1939)
Wall Street Cowboy (1939)
Renegade Trail (1939)
In Old Caliente (1939)
Man of Conquest (1939)
Silver on the Sage (1939)
Southward Ho! (1939)
Sunset Trail (1939)
Let Freedom Ring (1939)
Fighting Thoroughbreds (1939)
The Frontiersmen (1938)
In Old Mexico (1938)
Pride of the West (1938)
Bar 20 Justice (1938)
Heart of Arizona (1938)
Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
Texas Trail (1937)
Hopalong Rides Again (1937)
Rustlers' Valley (1937)
North of the Rio Grande (1937)
Mountain Music (1937)
Hills of Old Wyoming (1937)
Borderland (1937)
Trail Dust (1936)
The Plainsman (1936)
Hopalong Cassidy Returns (1936)
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936)
The Texas Rangers (1936)
I Married a Doctor (1936)
Three on the Trail (1936)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Song of the Trail (1936)
Call of the Prairie (1936)
Heart of the West (1936)
The Lawless Nineties (1936)
Silver Spurs (1936)
Valley of the Lawless (1936)
Hitch Hike Lady (1935)
Swifty (1935)
Bar 20 Rides Again (1935)
The Eagle's Brood (1935)
$1,000 a Minute (1935)
Texas Terror (1935)
The Throwback (1935)
Thunder Mountain (1935)
Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1935)
Hop-a-long Cassidy (1935)
Honeymoon Limited (1935)
Ladies Crave Excitement (1935)
Justice of the Range (1935)
The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1935)
The Headline Woman (1935)
Tombstone Terror (1935)
Smokey Smith (1935)
The Outlaw Tamer (1935)
Rainbow Valley (1935)
The Lost City (1935)
Death Flies East (1935)
The Lost City (1935)
'Neath the Arizona Skies (1934)
The Lawless Frontier (1934)
In Old Santa Fe (1934)
The Brand of Hate (1934)
The Man from Hell (1934)
The Star Packer (1934)
Randy Rides Alone (1934)
Next Of Kin (1934)
The Shadow Gang (1934)
Bandits of the Badlands (1934)
Monte Carlo Nights (1934)
The Man from Utah (1934)
Blue Steel (1934)
City Limits (1934)
Bedlam of Beards (1934)
House of Mystery (1934)
Mystery Liner (1934)
Beggars in Ermine (1934)
West of the Divide (1934)
The Lucky Texan (1934)
Riders of Destiny (1933)
Ship of Wanted Men (1933)
Skyway (1933)
The Devil's Mate (1933)
Ranger's Code (1933)
Galloping Romeo (1933)
The Fugitive (1933)
Fighting Texans (1933)
Crashing Broadway (1933)
The Sphinx (1933)
The Gallant Fool (1933)
The Return of Casey Jones (1933)
Trailing North (1933)
The Phantom Broadcast (1933)
Breed of the Border (1933)
The Fighting Champ (1932)
Self Defense (1932)
Wild Horse Mesa (1932)
Texas Buddies (1932)
Hidden Valley (1932)
Broadway to Cheyenne (1932)
Klondike (1932)
The Night Rider (1932)
Love Me Tonight (1932)
A Slip at the Switch (1932)
Winner Take All (1932)
The Boiling Point (1932)
Ghost Valley (1932)
The Man from Hell's Edges (1932)
Riders of the Desert (1932)
Border Devils (1932)
Play Girl (1932)
Sally of the Subway (1932)
Dragnet Patrol (1931)
Cavalier of the West (1931)
Oklahoma Jim (1931)
Pleasure (1931)
The Nevada Buckaroo (1931)
Big Business Girl (1931)
God's Country and the Man (1931)
The Stolen Jools (1931)
Dirigible (1931)
Top Speed (1930)
For the Defense (1930)
She Who Gets Slapped (1930)
Playing Around (1930)
Big News (1929)
Rainbow Man (1929)
The House Without Children (1919)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1885-05-06
Deathday1969-02-09 (83 years old)
Birth PlaceStannards, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsGeorge Francis Hayes, George Hayes, George Francis "Gabby" Hayes
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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