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George 'Gabby' Hayes
Actor
Died February 9, 1969 (83 years)
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
| 2003 | Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty · as Gabby Whittaker (clip from Home in Oklahoma (1946)) |
| 1976 | Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch · as (archive footage) |
| 1975 | Brother Can You Spare a Dime · as (archive footage) |
| 1956 | The Gabby Hayes Show (1956) (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 1950 | The Cariboo Trail · as Grizzly |
| 1949 | El Paso · as Pesky Tees |
| 1948 | Albuquerque · as Juke |
| 1948 | Return of the Bad Men · as John Pettit |
| 1947 | Trail Street · as Billy Jones |
| 1947 | Wyoming · as Windy Gibson |
| 1947 | Howdy Doody (TV Series) · as Gabby Hayes |
| 1946 | My Pal Trigger · as Gabby Kendrick |
| 1946 | Badman's Territory · as Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid |
| 1946 | Heldorado · as Gabby Whittaker |
| 1946 | Roll on Texas Moon · as Gabby Whittaker |
| 1946 | Under Nevada Skies · as Gabby Whittaker |
| 1946 | Home in Oklahoma · as Gabby Whittaker |
| 1946 | Rainbow Over Texas · as Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker |
| 1946 | Song of Arizona · as Gabby Whittaker |
| 1945 | Bells of Rosarita · as Gabby Whittake |
| 1945 | Sunset in El Dorado · as Gabby |
| 1945 | Don't Fence Me In · as Gabby Whittaker |
| 1945 | Utah · as Gabby Wittaker |
| 1945 | Along the Navajo Trail · as Gabby Whittaker |
| 1945 | Man from Oklahoma · as Gabby Whittaker |
| 1944 | Tall in the Saddle · as Dave |
| 1944 | Lights of Old Santa Fe · as Gabby Whittaker |
| 1943 | In Old Oklahoma · as Despirit Dean (stage driver) |
| 1942 | Sunset Serenade · as Gabby |
| 1942 | Ridin' Down the Canyon · as Gabby |
| 1942 | Man from Cheyenne · as Gabby Whittaker |
| 1942 | Heart of the Golden West · as Gabby |
| 1942 | Sunset on the Desert · as Gabby Whittaker |
| 1942 | South of Santa Fe · as Gabby Whittaker |
| 1942 | Romance on the Range · as Gabby |
| 1942 | Sons of the Pioneers · as Gabby Whittaker |
| 1941 | Bad Man of Deadwood · as Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone |
| 1941 | Sheriff of Tombstone · as Gabby |
| 1941 | In Old Cheyenne · as Arapaho Brown |
| 1941 | Red River Valley · as Gabby Whittaker |
| 1941 | Jesse James at Bay · as Sheriff Gabby Whitaker |
| 1941 | Robin Hood of the Pecos · as Gabriel Gabby Hornaday |
| 1941 | Nevada City · as Gabby Chapman |
| 1940 | Dark Command · as Andrew 'Doc' Grunch |
| 1940 | The Border Legion · as Honest John Whittaker |
| 1940 | Young Bill Hickok · as 'Gabby' Whitaker |
| 1940 | |
| 1940 | The Carson City Kid · as Gabby |
| 1940 | Young Buffalo Bill · as Gabby Whittaker |
| 1940 | The Ranger and the Lady · as Gabby Whittaker |
| 1940 | Melody Ranch · as Pop Laramie |
| 1940 | City of Lost Men · as Butterfield |
| 1939 | Renegade Trail · as Windy Halliday |
| 1939 | In Old Caliente · as Gabby |
| 1939 | Southward Ho! · as Gabby Whitaker |
| 1939 | The Arizona Kid · as Gabby Whittaker |
| 1939 | Wall Street Cowboy · as Gabby |
| 1939 | Days of Jesse James · as Gabby |
| 1939 | Let Freedom Ring · as Pop Wilkie |
| 1939 | Saga of Death Valley · as Gabby |
| 1939 | In Old Monterey · as Gabby Whittaker |
| 1939 | Fighting Thoroughbreds · as Gramps Montrose |
| 1938 | Pride of the West · as Windy Halliday |
| 1938 | Bar 20 Justice · as Windy Halliday |
| 1938 | Heart of Arizona · as Windy Halliday |
| 1938 | The Frontiersmen · as Windy Halliday |
| 1938 | The Painted Trail · as Galloping Romeo footage |
| 1937 | Hopalong Rides Again · as Windy Halliday |
| 1937 | North of the Rio Grande · as Windy Halliday |
| 1937 | Texas Trail · as Windy Halliday |
| 1937 | Borderland · as Windy Halliday |
| 1937 | Rustlers' Valley · as Windy Halliday |
| 1936 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town · as Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited) |
| 1936 | The Plainsman · as Breezy |
| 1936 | Three on the Trail · as Windy Halliday |
| 1936 | Hopalong Cassidy Returns · as Windy Halliday |
| 1936 | Call of the Prairie · as Shanghai McHenry |
| 1936 | Trail Dust · as Windy Halliday |
| 1936 | Hearts in Bondage · as Ezra |
| 1936 | Valley of the Lawless · as Grandpaw Jenkins |
| 1936 | Song of the Trail · as Dan Hobson |
| 1935 | Texas Terror · as Sheriff Ed Williams |
| 1935 | The Lost City · as Butterfield |
| 1935 | Hop-a-Long Cassidy · as Uncle Ben |
| 1935 | Rainbow Valley · as George Hale |
| 1935 | Ladies Crave Excitement · as McCloskey |
| 1935 | The Headline Woman · as Duffy |
| 1935 | The Farmer Takes a Wife · as Lucas |
| 1935 | The Hoosier Schoolmaster · as Pearson (as George Hayes) |
| 1935 | Tumbling Tumbleweeds · as Dr. Parker |
| 1935 | 1, 000 Dollars a Minute · as New Deal Watson |
| 1935 | Honeymoon Limited · as Pinkham |
| 1935 | Smokey Smith · as Blaze Bart |
| 1935 | Thunder Mountain · as Foley |
| 1935 | The Lost City · as Butterfield |
| 1934 | The Lucky Texan · as Jake 'Grandy' Benson |
| 1934 | Randy Rides Alone · as - Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute |
| 1934 | West of the Divide · as 'Dusty' |
| 1934 | The House of Mystery · as David Fells |
| 1934 | The Lawless Frontier · as Dusty |
| 1934 | The Man from Utah · as Marshal George Higgins |
| 1934 | 'Neath the Arizona Skies · as Matt Downing |
| 1934 | Blue Steel · as Sheriff Jake Withers |
| 1934 | The Lost Jungle · as Doctor |
| 1934 | Mystery Liner · as Joe, the Watchman |
| 1934 | In Old Santa Fe · as Cactus |
| 1934 | City Limits · as Charlie Carter |
| 1934 | Beggars in Ermine · as Joe Wilson |
| 1934 | Monte Carlo Nights · as Inspector Nick Gunby |
| 1934 | The Brand of Hate · as Bill Larkins |
| 1934 | The Star Packer · as Matt Matlock |
| 1934 | The Lost Jungle · as Doctor - Dirigible Passenger [Ch. 1] |
| 1933 | Riders of Destiny · as Charlie Denton |
| 1933 | The Sphinx · as Detective Casey |
| 1933 | Skyway · as George Taylor |
| 1933 | The Phantom Broadcast · as Police Lieutenant |
| 1933 | Galloping Romeo · as Grizzly |
| 1933 | The Return of Casey Jones · as Timothy Shine |
| 1933 | Breed of the Border · as Chuck Wiggins |
| 1933 | Fighting Texans · as Pop Martin |
| 1932 | Love Me Tonight · as Grocer (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Broadway to Cheyenne · as Walrus |
| 1932 | Border Devils · as Squint Sanders |
| 1932 | Texas Buddies · as Si Haller |
| 1932 | Hidden Valley · as Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat |
| 1932 | The Night Rider · as Altoonie |
| 1932 | Klondike · as Tom Ross |
| 1932 | Wild Horse Mesa · as Slack |
| 1932 | Riders of the Desert · as Hashknife Brooks |
| 1932 | Sally of the Subway · as Police Lieutenant Paxton |
| 1932 | The Fighting Champ · as Pete |
| 1932 | Crashin' Broadway · as J. Talbot Thorndyke |
| 1931 | The Stolen Jools · as Projectionist |
| 1931 | Dirigible · as Parade Official (uncredited) |
| 1931 | Big Business Girl · as Hotel Clerk (uncredited) |
| 1931 | The Nevada Buckaroo · as Cherokee Williams |
| 1931 | Cavalier of the West · as Sheriff Bill Ryan |
| 1931 | The Devil Plays · as Doctor |
| 1931 | God's Country and the Man · as Stingaree Kelly |
| 1929 | Big News · as Hoffman |