George 'Gabby' Hayes
Acting
Born 1885-05-06
Died 1969-02-09
Wellsville, New York, USA
202 credits
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
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star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
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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.
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Filmography
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What's My Line?
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Western von gestern
Love Me Tonight
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Tall in the Saddle
Dark Command
Blue Steel
In Old Oklahoma
The Stolen Jools
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
The Cariboo Trail
The Plainsman
The Lawless Frontier
'Neath the Arizona Skies
Trail Street
Dirigible
The Texas Rangers
Trailing North
Randy Rides Alone
West of the Divide
Wall Street Cowboy
Riders of Destiny
Return of the Bad Men
The Lucky Texan
El Paso
Badman's Territory
The Star Packer
Gold Is Where You Find It
The Man from Utah
Heart of the West
It's Howdy Doody Time: A 40-Year Celebration
Red River Valley
Man from Cheyenne
Albuquerque
Big Business Girl
Texas Buddies
Along the Navajo Trail
Ladies Crave Excitement
The Devil's Mate
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Man of Conquest
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Texas Terror
Robin Hood of the Pecos
Melody Ranch
The Sons of the Pioneers
Heldorado
Young Buffalo Bill
Days of Jesse James
Colorado
The Nevada Buckaroo
Let Freedom Ring
Sunset Serenade
The Sphinx
The Lawless Nineties
The Gallant Fool
Hop-a-long Cassidy
North of the Rio Grande
Rodeo Rocketeers
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