George 'Gabby' Hayes
Acting • Born 1885-05-06 – Died 1969-02-09
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
201 credits
My Pal Trigger
Movie • 1946
Gabby Kendrick
Riders of Destiny
Movie • 1933
Charlie Denton
Randy Rides Alone
Movie • 1934
- Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute
Texas Terror
Movie • 1935
Sheriff Ed Williams
The Lucky Texan
Movie • 1934
Jake 'Grandy' Benson
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Movie • 1936
Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)
West of the Divide
Movie • 1934
'Dusty'
Dark Command
Movie • 1940
Andrew 'Doc' Grunch
In Old Oklahoma
Movie • 1943
Despirit Dean
Albuquerque
Movie • 1948
Juke
Tall in the Saddle
Movie • 1944
Dave
The Star Packer
Movie • 1934
Matt Matlock
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
Movie • 1935
Pearson (as George Hayes)
The Lost City
Movie • 1935
Butterfield
Bad Man of Deadwood
Movie • 1941
Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone
Badman's Territory
Movie • 1946
Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid
Colorado
Movie • 1940
Gabby
The Carson City Kid
Movie • 1940
Gabby Whittaker
The Lawless Frontier
Movie • 1934
Dusty
Silver Spurs
Movie • 1936
Drag Harlan
The Throwback
Movie • 1935
Ford Cruze
The Texas Rangers
Movie • 1936
Judge Snow
The Frontiersmen
Movie • 1938
Windy Halliday
The Eagle's Brood
Movie • 1935
Spike
Pride of the West
Movie • 1938
Windy Halliday
In Old Mexico
Movie • 1938
Windy Halliday
Silver on the Sage
Movie • 1939
Windy Halliday
Bar 20 Justice
Movie • 1938
Windy Halliday
Renegade Trail
Movie • 1939
Windy Halliday
Sunset Trail
Movie • 1939
Windy Halliday
Three on the Trail
Movie • 1936
Windy Halliday
Hopalong Rides Again
Movie • 1937
Windy Halliday
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
Movie • 1936
Windy Halliday
North of the Rio Grande
Movie • 1937
Windy Halliday
Hop-a-long Cassidy
Movie • 1935
Uncle Ben
Rustlers' Valley
Movie • 1937
Windy Halliday
Heart of the West
Movie • 1936
Windy Jenkins
Call of the Prairie
Movie • 1936
Shanghai McHenry
Bar 20 Rides Again
Movie • 1935
Windy Halliday
Borderland
Movie • 1937
Windy Halliday
Texas Trail
Movie • 1937
Windy Halliday
Heart of Arizona
Movie • 1938
Windy Halliday
Hills of Old Wyoming
Movie • 1937
Windy Halliday
Trail Dust
Movie • 1936
Windy Halliday
Home in Oklahoma
Movie • 1946
Gabby Whittaker
Lights of Old Santa Fe
Movie • 1944
Gabby Whittaker
Sheriff of Tombstone
Movie • 1941
Gabby
Sunset Serenade
Movie • 1942
Gabby
Bells of Rosarita
Movie • 1945
Gabby Whittake
Heldorado
Movie • 1946
Gabby Whittaker
Roll on Texas Moon
Movie • 1946
Gabby Whittaker
The Border Legion
Movie • 1940
Honest John Whittaker
Young Bill Hickok
Movie • 1940
'Gabby' Whitaker
Under Nevada Skies
Movie • 1946
Gabby Whittaker
The Man from Utah
Movie • 1934
Marshal George Higgins
Rainbow Valley
Movie • 1935
George Hale
Blue Steel
Movie • 1934
Sheriff Jake Withers
Rainbow Man
Movie • 1929
Bill
Trail Street
Movie • 1947
Billy Jones
The Lawless Nineties
Movie • 1936
Major Carter
Sunset in El Dorado
Movie • 1945
Gabby
In Old Cheyenne
Movie • 1941
Arapaho Brown
Young Buffalo Bill
Movie • 1940
Gabby Whittaker
Border Devils
Movie • 1932
Squint Sanders
Bandits of the Badlands
Movie • 1934
Sheriff Jake Withers
The Shadow Gang
Movie • 1934
Matt Matlock
Next Of Kin
Movie • 1934
'Dusty'
The Arizona Kid
Movie • 1939
Gabby Whittaker
Rainbow Over Texas
Movie • 1946
Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker
The Big Bonanza
Movie • 1944
Hap Selby
Red River Valley
Movie • 1941
Gabby Whittaker
Ridin' Down the Canyon
Movie • 1942
Gabby
Southward Ho!
Movie • 1939
Gabby
Heart of the Golden West
Movie • 1942
Gabby
The Ranger and the Lady
Movie • 1940
Gabby Whittaker
Man from Cheyenne
Movie • 1942
Gabby Whittaker
Sunset on the Desert
Movie • 1942
Gabby Whittaker
South of Santa Fe
Movie • 1942
Gabby Whittaker
Klondike
Movie • 1932
Tom Ross
The Night Rider
Movie • 1932
Altoonie
The Boiling Point
Movie • 1932
George Duncan
Galloping Romeo
Movie • 1933
Grizzly
In Old Santa Fe
Movie • 1934
Cactus
The Return of Casey Jones
Movie • 1933
Timothy Shine
Monte Carlo Nights
Movie • 1934
Inspector Nick Gunby
Utah
Movie • 1945
Gabby Whittaker
Return of the Bad Men
Movie • 1948
John Pettit
Man of Conquest
Movie • 1939
Lannie Upchurch
Marshal of Reno
Movie • 1944
Gabby
Jesse James at Bay
Movie • 1941
Sheriff Gabby Whitaker
Ladies Crave Excitement
Movie • 1935
McCloskey
Days of Jesse James
Movie • 1939
Gabby
Tucson Raiders
Movie • 1944
'Gabby' Hopkins
Song of Arizona
Movie • 1946
Gabby Whittaker
Robin Hood of the Pecos
Movie • 1941
Gabriel Gabby Hornaday
Romance on the Range
Movie • 1942
Gabby
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Movie • 1935
Dr. Parker
Let Freedom Ring
Movie • 1939
Pop Wilkie
The Nevada Buckaroo
Movie • 1931
Cherokee Williams
Riders of the Desert
Movie • 1932
Hashknife Brooks
Honeymoon Limited
Movie • 1935
Pinkham
Sons of the Pioneers
Movie • 1942
Gabby Whittaker
El Paso
Movie • 1949
Pesky Tees
A Slip at the Switch
Movie • 1932
Deputy Smoot
The Cariboo Trail
Movie • 1950
Grizzly
Saga of Death Valley
Movie • 1939
Gabby
For the Defense
Movie • 1930
Ben (the waiter)
Dragnet Patrol
Movie • 1931
Private Detective
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Movie • 1976
(archive footage)
In Old Monterey
Movie • 1939
Gabby Whittaker
Nevada City
Movie • 1941
Gabby Chapman
The Man from Hell's Edges
Movie • 1932
Shamrock Cassidy
The Brand of Hate
Movie • 1934
Bill Larkins
Gold Is Where You Find It
Movie • 1938
Enoch
Justice of the Range
Movie • 1935
John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson
Hitch Hike Lady
Movie • 1935
Miner
Cavalier of the West
Movie • 1931
Sheriff Bill Ryan
Playing Around
Movie • 1930
Railroad Ticket-Seller (uncredited)
Death Flies East
Movie • 1935
Wotkyns
Skyway
Movie • 1933
George Taylor
The Plainsman
Movie • 1936
Breezy
Big News
Movie • 1929
Hoffman
Top Speed
Movie • 1930
Western Union Clerk
Tombstone Terror
Movie • 1935
Soupy Baxter
Along the Navajo Trail
Movie • 1945
Gabby Whittaker
Wall Street Cowboy
Movie • 1939
Gabby
Smokey Smith
Movie • 1935
Blaze Bart
City Limits
Movie • 1934
Charlie Carter
Death Valley Manhunt
Movie • 1943
Gabby Hayes
Bordertown Gun Fighters
Movie • 1943
Gabby Hayes
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Movie • 1936
Bearded Man
Hidden Valley Outlaws
Movie • 1944
Gabby Hayes
The Man from Hell
Movie • 1934
Banker Colonel Campbell
In Old Caliente
Movie • 1939
Gabby
Sally of the Subway
Movie • 1932
Police Lieutenant Paxton
Dirigible
Movie • 1931
Parade Official (uncredited)
Ranger's Code
Movie • 1933
Baxter (as George Hayes)
The Gallant Fool
Movie • 1933
Dad Denton
Swifty
Movie • 1935
Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes)
Don't Fence Me In
Movie • 1945
Gabby Whittaker
Wagons Westward
Movie • 1940
Hardtack
Trailing North
Movie • 1933
Flash Ryan
Valley of the Lawless
Movie • 1936
Grandpaw Jenkins
The Outlaw Tamer
Movie • 1935
Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes)
Man from Oklahoma
Movie • 1945
Gabby Whittaker
Wagon Tracks West
Movie • 1943
Gabby
Thunder Mountain
Movie • 1935
Foley
The Untamed Breed
Movie • 1948
Windy Lucas
The Fighting Champ
Movie • 1932
Pete
$1,000 a Minute
Movie • 1935
New Deal Watson
Calling Wild Bill Elliott
Movie • 1943
Gabby Hayes
Fighting Thoroughbreds
Movie • 1939
Gramps Montrose
Ship of Wanted Men
Movie • 1933
Crewman
Song of the Trail
Movie • 1936
Dan Hobson
The Stolen Jools
Movie • 1931
Projectionist
Claim Jumpers
Movie • 1934
Jake Benson
I Married a Doctor
Movie • 1936
Train Station Agent
Big Business Girl
Movie • 1931
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Melody Ranch
Movie • 1940
Pop Laramie
Winner Take All
Movie • 1932
Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited)
Mystery Liner
Movie • 1934
Joe, the Watchman
The Man from Thunder River
Movie • 1943
Gabby Whittaker
The Sphinx
Movie • 1933
Detective Casey
She Who Gets Slapped
Movie • 1930
Poker Player
Overland Mail Robbery
Movie • 1943
Gabby
Mojave Firebrand
Movie • 1944
Gabby Hayes
Wild Horse Mesa
Movie • 1932
Slack
Wyoming
Movie • 1947
Windy Gibson
Breed of the Border
Movie • 1933
Chuck Wiggins
Play Girl
Movie • 1932
Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited)
Texas Buddies
Movie • 1932
Si Haller
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Movie • 1975
Self (archive footage)
Love Me Tonight
Movie • 1932
Grocer (uncredited)
Bedlam of Beards
Movie • 1934
House of Mystery
Movie • 1934
David Fells
'Neath the Arizona Skies
Movie • 1934
Matt Downing
Mountain Music
Movie • 1937
Granpappy Burnside
God's Country and the Man
Movie • 1931
Stingaree Kelly
The Headline Woman
Movie • 1935
Duffy
Hidden Valley
Movie • 1932
Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat
Oklahoma Jim
Movie • 1931
Crooked Gambler
Self Defense
Movie • 1932
Jury Foreman
Broadway to Cheyenne
Movie • 1932
Walrus
The Phantom Broadcast
Movie • 1933
Police Lieutenant
Fighting Texans
Movie • 1933
Pop Martin
Crashing Broadway
Movie • 1933
J. Talbot Thorndyke
The Fugitive
Movie • 1933
Judge Tyler
The Devil's Mate
Movie • 1933
Collins
Beggars in Ermine
Movie • 1934
Joe Wilson
The House Without Children
Movie • 1919
Archibald Ponsonby
Smiling Irish Eyes
Movie • 1929
Taxi Driver
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Movie • 1935
Lucas
Rodeo Rocketeers
Movie • 1934
Marshall George
Vengence is Mine
Movie • 1934
Dusty
The Drifter
Movie • 1934
Marvin Black
The Western: A Lost TV Special
Movie • 1958
Self
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV • 1956
Self
The Gabby Hayes Show
TV • 1950
Himself
Western von gestern
TV • 1978
Gabby Whittaker (archive footage)
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self
The Gabby Hayes Show
TV • 1956
Narrator