Acting
George 'Gabby' Hayes
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
It's Howdy Doody Time: A 40-Year Celebration
Film · 1987
Western von gestern
Series · 1978
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Film · 1976
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Film · 1975
The Western: A Lost TV Special
Film · 1958
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Series · 1956
The Gabby Hayes Show
Series · 1956
The Cariboo Trail
Film · 1950
The Gabby Hayes Show
Series · 1950
What's My Line?
Series · 1950
El Paso
Film · 1949
Albuquerque
Film · 1948
Return of the Bad Men
Film · 1948
The Untamed Breed
Film · 1948
Trail Street
Film · 1947
Wyoming
Film · 1947
My Pal Trigger
Film · 1946
Badman's Territory
Film · 1946
Home in Oklahoma
Film · 1946
Heldorado
Film · 1946
Roll on Texas Moon
Film · 1946
Under Nevada Skies
Film · 1946
Rainbow Over Texas
Film · 1946
Song of Arizona
Film · 1946
Bells of Rosarita
Film · 1945
Sunset in El Dorado
Film · 1945
Utah
Film · 1945
Along the Navajo Trail
Film · 1945
Don't Fence Me In
Film · 1945
Man from Oklahoma
Film · 1945
Tall in the Saddle
Film · 1944
Lights of Old Santa Fe
Film · 1944
The Big Bonanza
Film · 1944
Marshal of Reno
Film · 1944
Tucson Raiders
Film · 1944
Hidden Valley Outlaws
Film · 1944
Mojave Firebrand
Film · 1944
In Old Oklahoma
Film · 1943
Death Valley Manhunt
Film · 1943
Bordertown Gun Fighters
Film · 1943
Wagon Tracks West
Film · 1943
Calling Wild Bill Elliott
Film · 1943
The Man from Thunder River
Film · 1943
Overland Mail Robbery
Film · 1943
Sunset Serenade
Film · 1942
Ridin' Down the Canyon
Film · 1942
Heart of the Golden West
Film · 1942
Man from Cheyenne
Film · 1942
Sunset on the Desert
Film · 1942
South of Santa Fe
Film · 1942
Romance on the Range
Film · 1942
The Sons of the Pioneers
Film · 1942
Bad Man of Deadwood
Film · 1941
Sheriff of Tombstone
Film · 1941
In Old Cheyenne
Film · 1941
Red River Valley
Film · 1941
Jesse James at Bay
Film · 1941
Robin Hood of the Pecos
Film · 1941
Nevada City
Film · 1941
Dark Command
Film · 1940
Colorado
Film · 1940
The Carson City Kid
Film · 1940
The Border Legion
Film · 1940
Young Bill Hickok
Film · 1940
Young Buffalo Bill
Film · 1940
The Ranger and the Lady
Film · 1940
Wagons Westward
Film · 1940
Melody Ranch
Film · 1940
Silver on the Sage
Film · 1939
Renegade Trail
Film · 1939
Sunset Trail
Film · 1939
The Arizona Kid
Film · 1939
Southward Ho!
Film · 1939
Man of Conquest
Film · 1939
Days of Jesse James
Film · 1939
Let Freedom Ring
Film · 1939
Saga of Death Valley
Film · 1939
In Old Monterey
Film · 1939
Wall Street Cowboy
Film · 1939
In Old Caliente
Film · 1939
Fighting Thoroughbreds
Film · 1939
The Frontiersmen
Film · 1938
Pride of the West
Film · 1938
In Old Mexico
Film · 1938
Bar 20 Justice
Film · 1938
Heart of Arizona
Film · 1938
Gold Is Where You Find It
Film · 1938
Hopalong Rides Again
Film · 1937
North of the Rio Grande
Film · 1937
Rustlers' Valley
Film · 1937
Borderland
Film · 1937
Texas Trail
Film · 1937
Hills of Old Wyoming
Film · 1937
Mountain Music
Film · 1937
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Film · 1936
Silverspurs
Film · 1936
The Texas Rangers
Film · 1936
Three on the Trail
Film · 1936
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
Film · 1936
Heart of the West
Film · 1936
Call of the Prairie
Film · 1936
Trail Dust
Film · 1936
The Lawless Nineties
Film · 1936
The Plainsman
Film · 1936
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Film · 1936
Valley of the Lawless
Film · 1936
Song of the Trail
Film · 1936
I Married a Doctor
Film · 1936
Texas Terror
Film · 1935
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
Film · 1935
The Lost City
Film · 1935
The Throwback
Film · 1935
The Eagle's Brood
Film · 1935
Hop-a-long Cassidy
Film · 1935
Bar 20 Rides Again
Film · 1935
Rainbow Valley
Film · 1935
Ladies Crave Excitement
Film · 1935
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Film · 1935
Honeymoon Limited
Film · 1935
Justice of the Range
Film · 1935
Hitch Hike Lady
Film · 1935
Death Flies East
Film · 1935
Tombstone Terror
Film · 1935
Smokey Smith
Film · 1935
Swifty
Film · 1935
The Outlaw Tamer
Film · 1935
Thunder Mountain
Film · 1935
$1,000 a Minute
Film · 1935
The Headline Woman
Film · 1935
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Film · 1935
Randy Rides Alone
Film · 1934
The Lucky Texan
Film · 1934
West of the Divide
Film · 1934
The Star Packer
Film · 1934
The Lawless Frontier
Film · 1934
The Man from Utah
Film · 1934
Blue Steel
Film · 1934
Bandits of the Badlands
Film · 1934
The Shadow Gang
Film · 1934
Next Of Kin
Film · 1934
In Old Santa Fe
Film · 1934
Monte Carlo Nights
Film · 1934
The Brand of Hate
Film · 1934
City Limits
Film · 1934
The Man from Hell
Film · 1934
Claim Jumpers
Film · 1934
Mystery Liner
Film · 1934
Bedlam of Beards
Film · 1934
House of Mystery
Film · 1934
'Neath the Arizona Skies
Film · 1934
Beggars in Ermine
Film · 1934
Rodeo Rocketeers
Film · 1934
Vengence is Mine
Film · 1934
The Drifter
Film · 1934
Riders of Destiny
Film · 1933
Galloping Romeo
Film · 1933
The Return of Casey Jones
Film · 1933
Skyway
Film · 1933
Ranger's Code
Film · 1933
The Gallant Fool
Film · 1933
Trailing North
Film · 1933
Ship of Wanted Men
Film · 1933
The Sphinx
Film · 1933
Breed of the Border
Film · 1933
The Phantom Broadcast
Film · 1933
Fighting Texans
Film · 1933
Crashing Broadway
Film · 1933
The Fugitive
Film · 1933
The Devil's Mate
Film · 1933
Border Devils
Film · 1932
Klondike
Film · 1932
The Night Rider
Film · 1932
The Boiling Point
Film · 1932
Riders of the Desert
Film · 1932
A Slip at the Switch
Film · 1932
The Man from Hell's Edges
Film · 1932
Sally of the Subway
Film · 1932
The Fighting Champ
Film · 1932
Winner Take All
Film · 1932
Wild Horse Mesa
Film · 1932
Play Girl
Film · 1932
Texas Buddies
Film · 1932
Love Me Tonight
Film · 1932
Hidden Valley
Film · 1932
Self Defense
Film · 1932
Broadway to Cheyenne
Film · 1932
The Nevada Buckaroo
Film · 1931
Dragnet Patrol
Film · 1931
Cavalier of the West
Film · 1931
Dirigible
Film · 1931
The Stolen Jools
Film · 1931
Big Business Girl
Film · 1931
God's Country and the Man
Film · 1931
Oklahoma Jim
Film · 1931
For the Defense
Film · 1930
Playing Around
Film · 1930
Top Speed
Film · 1930
She Who Gets Slapped
Film · 1930
Rainbow Man
Film · 1929
Big News
Film · 1929
Smiling Irish Eyes
Film · 1929
The House Without Children
Film · 1919